New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-07
CIoudless Sky and Gayly-
Gowned Women Greet
Thoroughbreds.
TWO FULL BROTHERS
COME OUT VICTORIOUS
Web Carter and Alma DiSap-
point Layers of Odds-Thirty-
six Entries Scratched.

Fate and Fashion linked hands at
Hewlett Bay Park yesterday afternoon,
the result being as pretty and excit-
ing an afternoon Of hunt-club racing
as has been seen on Long Island in
many day.
Fate contributed a cloudless sky and
a dry. fast course. over which twenty
FIVE lissome thoroughbreds ran with
all the power in their splendid bodies
in the six races provided by the Rock
away Hunting Club for the second and
last programme Of its 1916 season.
Fashion. not 10 be outdone by Fate
sent n bevy Of perhaps two thousand
gsyly-gowned women and four thousand
correctly CARRIED men 70 watch the
entertainment and lend color and
piQuaney to the scene.
Favorites Fare Badly.
Unlike the first racing day at Hew-
lett Park, favorites did not win the
majority of the events. Only IN the
last two races, in fact, did the horses
which the students of thoroughbred
form had picked 10 win justify the
confidence placed in them. The other
four chases went to horses which had
been sadly overlooked by those of q
gambling turn of mind.
Two of these winners-Web Carter
in the third race and Alma in the
fourth-were full brothers, both being
e
hence entitled TO more consideration
than they received at the hands Of the
layers Of odds.
A total Of thirtv-six entries were
scratched. which cut the fields for the
various events 70 barely enough num-
Der bearers to make the racing inter
esting. Thus, in the first event Of the
afternoon, the Spring Handicap. for
four-year-olds and upward, four Of the
entries were withdrawn, leaving only
Culvert and Pay Streak 10 battle for
the $3.50 purse and the plaudlts Of the
big throng.
The Schwartz entry. smarting from
a defeat by Culvert al last saturday
meet, leaped away from the barrier
like a frightened hare and was a good
four lengths away before the big son
of Bridgewater- Black Wings got go
ing. Culvert made a gallant effort TO
overtake his rival. but Pay Streak was
out to win and kent I'D his terrlnc pace
to the end, winning by length and a
half. Mr.. Brabazona. who rode the
winner. received an ovation when ne
returned and raised his whip to the
judge.
IsScator. owned by Mrs. F. Am
.<e Clark. was installed rs favorite
- the second race, the Woodsburgh
Handicap, with the Clothler entry,
Wild Irishman and Impulsive, the sec
ond choice. This three-and-one-hail
mile chase over posts and rails FUR
nished a spectacular bit Of seesawlng'
Banco on with Rush.
Bunco Mr.. Nicholas L. Tilney's
chestnut gelding. beat the barrier, and
promptly proceeded 20 open up fifty
length gap between him and his teid-
For almost three miles Banco main
tanned his lead, threatening 70 reward
his constituents al the comfortable ODDS
Of four for one.
In the last half mile, however, the
field suddenly made a concerted move
Miss Meadows I'm the lead, and came
abreast of the Tilney chestnut. MISS
v Meadows, over-eager TO reach the
stretch, fell at the last barrier permit
ing Arthur Fowler's Oxygen, which
Mad been running stout-hearted
kffth. to come on and win by ten good
kengths. Mr. Clothier's lmpulslvC
lame home twenty lengths ahead OF
fhe weary Banco, with Wild lrishman
indicator and Descendant back in tho
Muck.
The third race was the Long Island
Handicap. over the brush course, anc
provided the first real catastrophe OF
Inc afternoon Taking the initial bar
Ter, directly IN front of the stand
Nm Hanson, with G.. Glider up, struck
hIs forefeet on the top and fell head
foremost, Mr.. Glider falling clear
dold Pitcher, with Dir. Alpers up
stumbled on Jim Hanson's black legs
and also went sprawling. Mr.. Alper'
sustained a severe shock and had &c
be assisted from the field
This left knight Of Merci, AleppC
and Web Carter 10 fight IL out FOL
honors. Mr.. Brabazon. on knight o.
Merci. fooled his horse along IN gooC
shane until he came 70 the last turn
when the son Of Thistle and Penitenc'
II showed q decided disposition TO SLOW
M. r. Wright, on Web Carter. saw ms
chance and spanked his black INTO tn'
lead.
Aleppo refused the last barrier an,
ran around IL, coming into The stretcl
in time 20 help lift Carter over th'
finish line comfortably in front Of I'M
knight, which had been installed al