The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-27
FiginnN Second, Rock View
Third i'm First Feature of
1914 Racing Season.
RUSH AT FINISH TIMELY
Son Of Hamburg Slippers.
Five Lengths Ahead at
Wire-Ties Record.
PUBLIC LIKES BETTING
Abundance of Wagering by
Friends, All Carried On
in Orderly Fashion.
WILSON GETS THREE RACES
His Plantagenet, Penobscot and
Encore Win-So Do Bosom
and Guy Fisher.
WILSON GETS THREE RACES

BELMONT PARK, L. l., May 26-Racing,
revived year ago, was reestablished on a
firm basis to-day. when fifteen thousand
persons saw the four-year-old Buskin win
the Metropolitan Handicap at one mile
from a high class field of eleven. Cutting
loose in the last eighth OF a mile. the son
Of Hamburg-Slippers breezed over the
finish line five lengths In front of the
three-year-old Figlnny. owned by Gif-
ford 4. Cochran, one of the latest recruits
10 the turf. Then came the popular IA
vorlte, Rock View. carrying the colors of
August Belmont into third place under the
heavy impost of 1877 pounds. The winner
equalled the track record Of ~ is, made
by Fashion Plate In 1910
Long before the entries in the feature
event paraded there was scene at the
park 10 stir to enthusiasm the men who
have fought for years to bring racing
back. As the special trains arrived the
stands and lawn gradually filled with an
eager. anxious throng longing for the first
sound Of the bugle which would denote the
opening OF the racing season of 1914. Old
timers were there In plenty. but there was
tudiclous leavening of the new adherents
of the sport-the people who have been at
tracted by the motto Of sport for sports
sake-and these we're ready to cheer. the
EFFORTS OF horses and riders independent OF
any small wagers they might make on the
result of a race.
Boots and saddles" Thrills.
Friends who had not met since the close
~ last season were busy exchanging
greetings when the notes OF Boots and
Saddles" summoned the horses to the post
for the two-year-old race which opened
the programme. This was the most dra-
matte moment of the afternoon, for appro-
priately enough the first youngster to step
on the track and prance proudly past the
stand bore the red white and blue of Capt.
Z, B. Cassatt. The sight Of the national
colors in the van reused the crowd to en-
thusiasm and the cassatt entry Trial BY
Jury was cheered more vociferously be.
fore the race than was the winner Encore.
which bore the popular colors OF r. T.
Wilson, Jr.. 10 victory.
There was much curiosity to see how
the speculation. which Is rega rded as a
necessary adjunct to horseracing, would
be conducted The situation had been
fairly outlined by recent court -~ecisions
and the track management was more than
willing 10 respect the views OF District
Attorney Lewis J. Smith OF Nassau
county as 20 complying with the law. The
District Attorney was engaged In trying
NasG ~ NINtS4d, but sent a UuUDeT
ot county detectives 10 see that the law
vas obeyed Sheriff Petit also sent over
force OF twenty-five deputies In, charge
OF Deputy Sheriff Rayner. but the pro-
cetd!ngs were SO orderly throughout the
day that not a single arrest was made.
There was no organized bookmaking,
but a; the same time there was an album
dance OF wagering among friends, who
we're 50 well scquainteu mat there was no
occasion 10 pass money. All subterfuges
and concealment was done away with.
such as whispering OF odds and then re-
cording bets by clerk writing down the
Wagers on paper concealed in his pocket.
Men who had a wide acquaintance on the
rscetrack, some Of whom had been known
as oookmakers in the old days, were ready
and willing TO accept the wagers of those
known TO them. All that was necessary
was FOR the man who wished to speculate
to write the name OF the horse he wished
10 support on a slip of paper, with the
Size Of the wager and his name and hand
It TO a man who was willing to lay the
Odds. The slip then was tucked away and
general settlement made after the last
race had been run.