New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-02
Veteran Sportsman Pilots
roreador Home in Front
in Rockaway Cup.
RIG CROWD GATHERS
TO WELCOME SPORT
ooiton Killed and Rider Injured
IN Manikins Parade in
Distracting Costumes.

80
-. and one Of the biggest crowds
hunt club meeting IN many years
l l,,ned the season Of 1915 at the one
| =, f,,ure Of the Rockaway Hunting
Csb q, Hewlett Bay Park.
,,4tbc 5000 or more dovotccs Of the
.,-. who filed the brand new grand
20 and spilled over the lawn and
n,,,eed The .nclosure went home well
...,sed with their forctaste Of the
go season tc come. For there were
- finishes. thrills and spills galore
che 'chascs, and one victory that
- ~. from al. the others in popu-
huty. ,
v.,lsv 2 Necne won the Rockaway
~, Observation-Disclosures race over
80 ..,ks twenty years ago. When he
..,,ore6 down :hc stretch in white.
A.. spots. the famous silks inherited
,.,- his father in that fixture ycster-
=, ,bere was q burst Of spontaneous
',!'erse from the sraudstand ana the
,-5vd on the rail-
TAe, arp.aase was for q weIl-won'
Wr45sv race as much as for the
~ OF @ popular sportsman ana
80 tho -.rr This was has second
.rtI, ,ruea~aucc IN the saddle since
rss Injured on the polo held' IN
' Tse Po,lavay Cup stood out from
- recss As veritable chapter
v .ceiderts. too. One horse, Mrs.
W,l.er N T.Hord's Oulton, was killed
'.Itis rider. Mr.. i. Smith, had his
saTsrbone broken when the big chest
~, sumter fell for the second time IN
-. ,sre Upcas and Unico also came
,,o,,ers during the race, but Mclean
Ys15e5v pluckiIy romounted the laI-
-. 80 came IN third with him.
vnsre rode q waiting race on Tore
ID, There have been amateur TlderS
4JU'' 49, baer able 10 make tired
-. I've n his best in the last hard
80 ~. - the wire. but few have been
Me "a DO il any better than dld the
1o.. amateur Unico cut out the
,r.nirg for the first mile, until ne
came 70 grief, and then Nina loon '"e
lead -, hooL of
Keene rated his horse well oaGN o.
the pacemskers, riding as {noue" W
were going 20 q hunt breakfast ~
the end of the third mile Nina began
70 tire right after Oulton hau OHH
bled over q hurdle and landed on ms
neck. Unico in the meantime was man
mile behind. ,,-
Nv Toreador. a very tired horse, re-
snonded TO his Jockeys urging, and
,v,iumped Nina SIS they swung over
@s last hurdles. Nina was game, but
r;0l, AZ the end she weakened ana
To!esdor went on TO WIN oy ten
lengths. - -.
ovn with Longchamps or Auteuh' me
es,het Of its importance IN the 1ash-
ion world was set yesterday when
Isvv NJ rnanneouins descended from
lnousines after the third race ana 10
The whirring of the movie cameras
and clicking Of plain newspaper cam,
tras. paraded through the paddock ana
down the stretch and back again;
some show" said the b!ase DroKer
Gown at Long Beach for the weekend.
Some show was right. lhey say
Paul Poiret is in the trenches, DuV he
must be as busy designing sport cos
tunes as digging in against Herni@"
stack
The manneouins will be a regular
thing at the race meetings no"I Lhey
say. They are very distracting, "hIle
and black was the motif IN the COS
tunes, with a touch Of cerlse mere anu
there This is on the authority OF
fair informant But some OF the girIs
looked cold Binoculars and rlolng
crop are not as good as an oEeLcoa'
when one is wearing white rlulhs
hreeehes and 4 hunting coat.
The crowd that wasn't just dressed
Up for the occasion enjoyed the day.
There was almost the taste OF saII
water in the air, and the sun was hos
TOO hot for comfort. Steamer rugs ana
fuu for those who motored down ala
toi come in amIss.
All but one Of the six races were
for gentleman riders, and Johnny
Tucker started the season with dou
BE on his old standbys, Cloud and
Cglvert. Calvert was beaten by MI
Sye.s in the first race. the Albro Farm
Cup al halt a mile on the nat aItef
whipping finish. Then the son OF
bridgeWater went 10 the post IN tne
last raee-the Dash, q quarter mile
affair.
Culvsrt was the choice in this, but
be had 70 be ridden out to beat Lily
Orme, one Of the Piping Rock SUP
Hrlption horses.
Johnny started UNFOLDING the honor
q the Tucker family on Cloud IN the
South Shore plate. at a mile on the
fat Cloud was the paddock choice,
and after the frat rush of Vsruna
made every post winning one. Chap-
I'm, from the Jericho Stables, made
brave rush 70 the front in the last
iour furlongs, and almost caught Clouc
pot that was as close 70 the biggest
enc Of the purse as he got. However
ne made the place easily over Varuna'
h. S. Page can.ered home alone on
his Ben Cabell IN the Hewlett ParK
Plate for hunters. at two miles and
hat over the brush course. There was
another chapter Of accidents in TINS
ehsse, for Ben Cabell was the only
enc Of the four that went TO the post
70 hnish. The first 10 come 10 grief
vas Gold Plate, which he's won many
. good race at the amateur meetings.
Y0lo Plate spilled B. b. Lewis quite
neatly al the first jump Guatematzin
eai out the running from the start,
VIZ The Elephant right up, and Page
theng Ben Caboll nicely some lengths
when the field got around 20 the
sIandstand The Elephant treated the
wO"d TO nice little thrill by throwing
at Park and then stepping over him
~ ne trotted away 10 the paddock.
enen Page made his bid with Ben
Neoeil, and drew away. Guatematzin
Spsme 70 grief two jumps from home.
sege never blinked once through his
s~onoele as he trotted first past the
winning post.
:, Two Of the four horses that went TO
VIC post in the Cedarhurst Cup ran out,
."t ieil and the other bolted. So it was