Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-07
OUTSIDER WINS
BRIGHTON CUP
HoIscher, at rs to I, Causes
One of the Biggest Sur
prises of the Year.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK October 6-The running Of
the $4,000 Brighton cup, a weight for age
at two miles and a quarter at the Beach
today furnished one of the biggest turf
surprises In many years. William Shields
three-year- old Holscher. cheap selling
platter that graduated from the maiden
class only the other day. ridden by an in
experienced exercise boy, named Noone,
was the winner. He was quoted at % to l
and was played by many for small wagers.
On form it looked like a laydown for w.
B. Jennings big Prestonpans horse, Proper,
who was victor Gus in the cup preliminary
last Tuesday, and as Proper had suffered
only one defeat in the mud during his ca
reer the wise fraternity thought that any
price against him was a good one. Ac-
cordingly 8 to was gobbled by the big
speculators while Whitley Langdons three
year-old filly FLIP Flap, another good mud
lark, who was supposed to be Proper's
most dangerous rival was heavily played
at to 5. George Brown, jr.'s The Clown,
at 80 to /, the fourth starter, was also nib
bled at.
The Clown Leads at Start.
At the start Miller went to the front with
The Clown, who was fighting for his head
as he rushed down past the judges for the
first time. l.. Williams Ildu d l-6Hl ioiu va
Proper; the big fellow galoping along in
second place with gigantic strides. while
Flip Flap Shaw up, was third and the
despised Holscher bad last. Going into
the back stretch Proper, who wanted to
run, passed The Clown and set good
pace. At the end of mile. still under
wraps, Proper was going easily, with The
Clown second. Flip Flap third and Hol-
scher still the ira Ter. Rounding into the
home stretch the second time rushed Prop
err, Williams sitting still and never making
a move This order was maintained around
into the back stretch aga n until d mile
and three quarters had been covered when
Shaw made his first move with Flip Flap
AS the Handspring filly reached Propers
side Williams began to ride the Prestonpans
horse for all he worth. but in the next
| furlong Proper chucked it w like hound.
| 1t looked like Flip Flap on the far turn,
| but in fifty HolScher, who had been cut
| loose, made a quick dash for the filly, who
! could not stall him off. Holscher and Flip
Flap like team after that until they
got well into the home stretch, where both
i Shaw and Noone went to the whip. They
| put the punishment on thick, but HolScher
| had the greater amount of stamina and
| gradually drew away, inch by inch, while
| the Is, 600 spectators yelled in their excite
| ment At the end, still under the LASH
| Hoscher was the winner by three parts of
length, with Flip Flap twenty lengths in
front of the dissracefully beaten Proper
| The Clown being an eighth Of mile back
! The time was 3.59 1-5.
Chantilly steeplechase.
| The other stake feature was the Chan
| lilly steeplechase. about two miles. There
were only three starters Mr. Cottons Jim
my Lane, who went up in the betting from
to to even money, won in a sharp drive
| by two lengths from ]. E. Widener's Caller,
| to .. The Hitchcock, jr.'s Orc backed
| down to TO l. burned up flood of wise
| money by refusing ore of the obstacles on
| the back stretch the first time around. The
! race was run III 4.o0.
| The sport began with an upset for the