New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-03
HUSTLER CAUSES
Clasps, BUT HE
WINS THE JUMP
Eight Thousand at Bel.
mont Track Thrilled BY
Spectacular Race.
BY r. u. BURROWS

For the briefest fraction Of =,
slant during the running 81 the 81,
race at Belmont Park yesterday ,f,..
noon it looked as though the jude.. /.
charge would have 70 drag the a,,.
covered mo contest" sign from usi..
meath the tower and hang il on, a.,
the public 20 wonder at
With his two competitors in a..
race tearing madly around tho ,u,;
course without any riders aboard a.;
two more jumps 20 make. Thor,,
Hitchcock's timber-topping che,,nV,
Hustler, hesitated az the feld.s,..s
barrier just long enough 20 make n.
crowd Of 5000 gasp; then he sail.s
gracefully over the obstruction .,5
came romping past the winning nae.
amid the plaudits Of the multitude
What looked like a tragedy 20 nos.
Of the spectators occurred just A No.
ment or so before Hustler galloues
home alone. Harvey Williams. via
had the mount on e. r. Robin,
gelding. Little Nearer, vas pinned b..
meath his horse when the latter .sH
heavily in an attempt 20 negotiate n.
fourth barrier.
Williams seemed 70 be seriously IL.
jured, lying in a crumbled and No.
tionless heap after Little Nearer h,s
scrambled up, and dashed away aft,,
the other two horses in the race.
Lad Knocked BreathlesS
But the lad was merely knoc..s
breathless-"merely" being used in
comparative sense only and before Ia
ambulance could get across the infeI
10 where he lay he was sitting I'D %
count the stars which we're still dane.
ing before his eyes. Later he walked
unassisted TO the paddock. and va
perfectly fit by the time the band
played "Home, Sweet Home"
While Williams was still prone Q,
! the ground another tumble took plse.
at the second backstretch barresi,,
the Milltown Stables entry. ArOr.
tossing Jockey Csntwell over his hu.
as he stumbled through the four-ioo.
| brush. Cantwell. too. lay still for
few moments and accepted a ride !,
| the ambulance when that busy WACO,
/ had raced over TO get him. But, Ike
Williams, the second victim OF bs!
/ Jump was all right as soon as his
! breath and wits came back.
With Little Nearer and Agon dogr,
The race degenerated into solitaire
/ brought home in easy fashion. taking
care to give the popular timber-toppe
/ all the time he wanted at the tao N.
naming barriers.
Besides the one-horse steepleehu.,
the other real feature Of the day was
the circulation of afternoon newsps.
pers describing the naval engagement
in the North Sea. To be sure. there
were FIVE other races on the programs;
but in all save one OF them the winner
came home in such comparatively euY
fashion that il was hard to beccn.
greatly excited.
The exception came in the last race
Of the day-a fve-furlong sprint fv
maiden two-year-olds which was only
captured by the Brighton Stables nsE
purchase, Yellowstone, after a corkirs
| brush with Mr.. Earle's colt. ArnoN
and J. f. Madden's younGster, Defen"
/ It must have been particularly pleas
/ ing TO George VI. Odom 70 see his r.
/ cent "buy" come through so gsmelI
especially as Mr.. Madden, who sok
Yellowstone to doom only rev dsN
ago. was forced 10 sit back and see The
novice beat out his own entry By sheer
/ pluck.
As has been the case almost sine
/ the Belmont season began, five puoIc
choices out of six rewarded the back
ers by passing tho finish line well u
/ front of their fields. In the last vess
twenty-five favorites out OF thirty hsT.
won their races, much TO the Joy o.
those who like TO have small wage
down on the short price horse.
| Mrs. c. y. brakes good flly Anne
/ T. had an easy time in the first can't"
/ of the afternoon. winning by four nsl
teal lengths from a field composed O.
/ Old Drury. Laatsna. Rebel and bsr'
which finished in the order named.
Foxhall P. Keene put over snoth''
surprise when his Ally Lorac leape
away from the barrier ahead OF james
/ Putler's favorite. Miss Puzzle, and TO
other horses entered in the second race
and was never headed
/ FIRST RACE-For tvo-ysar.o.d. selhs y 81
/ scription a s. each. Nth $500 sfiei I've Ut
| Uorss =" W Joker. o1s r.
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