New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-23
Dust, Leaves
Peanut Shells
And Racing
BY Harriette Underhill

The Roslyn Handicap was supposed
TO be the bright particular star which
would lead people TO the Aqueduct
track yesterday, hut, as a matter Of
fact, plenty of things happened which
were more exciting than the feature
race.
To begin at the beginning. what
could DO more hazardous than digging
ones way out of the trench which
leads from the train to the entrance
gate? theoretically, it is q passage
way. but. as matter of fact. the
stairs which lead from the subter-
ranean hall to the open mir are well
nigh impossible. They are buried
deep under accumulated dust, dead
leaves. peanut shells. programmes,
badges, tips, chewing gum and news
papers.
Real Rubbish Heap
So successfully camoufaged are they
that they resemble a rubbish heap, and
the vast army which rushed through
and over them Yesterday took its life
in its hands.
Something exciting hsppened In the
very first race, when Wise Man won
over Paddy Whack, thereby breaking
the heart of James Butler. Trainer
Mccormick and Jockey Keogh.
Wise Man had cunning piebald
pony to show him the way to the bar
rier, but he didn't need any pony TO
show him the way home.
In the second race Ben Wyvis kept
up the high tension by making track
record for a two-mile stcGplechase. IL
was the Bushwick Handicap, and The
Brook, with IA pounds on the pro-
Gramme and pounds more in the
saddle. looked good enough to a whole
lot of the people.
Mrs. Donohue's geldng lowered the
track record several seconds on Tues
dav. when he made the distance in
4:l21-5. Well, Ben Wyvis just clipped
a few ffths off that yesterday and won
in 4:1Ol-5. And Ben is the horse which
Mrs. Payne Whitney had such bad luck
with. Some one said that she gave
him away. but Mrs. Whitney didn't
saw so. and neither did Mrs. Stetson.
Ii was a great race, and although the
pace was terrific from the start the
horses covered the FIST mile well
punched and took the jumps almost
abreast
Long Walk to Paddock
Many took the long walk to the pad
dock TO look the horses over for the big
race, but the only trouble is that you
have to turn right around and come
back again or you don't get back IN
time to see the horses start.
Ticket looked very sweet and tract
able in the paddock, and after Butweli
had nut him on his honor he felt fairly
secure, but he learned ms lesson, Put
not your trust in Ticke.," for Ticket
went gently TO The barrier and men
proceeded 10 plant mis- lite hoofs where
he thought they would do the most
good. ,,:-.
TOT and Straight Forward busy dodglng
his feet. and then, after all these
demonstrations, he didn't do thing
az the finish. Some one suggested that
Andrew Miller change the first letter
of his colts name.
We were particularly interested IN
Stradivarius, because Wex Jones sat
next to US and picked the gelding 10
win.
After that the repartee was fast ana
furious, for Stradivarius FOOLED around
and gave every one q chance 70 thlnN
up something clever TO say. FIRST ne
ran away, and one man said that ne
seemed all unstrung; then another mao
wag said that if he didn't stop hdd!ihg
around he would get left at the pVst,
and another one said that he "ouiah
save anything for the encore.
But we noticed that Lyke was wear
nd
the geldng was merely anxious. to
carry the Khaki to the front. He lost
this ambition somewhere between the
barrier and the wire. however. ana
Harvest King, Star Gaze and ANDES,
which attempted 10 emulate Stradl-
varius, finished ahead Of him.
Programmes at Fault
The programmes boldly announced
that the race was open only TO horses
that had not won $50 in 1917. what
they meant TO say was no doubt sooo'
but perhaps they knew better than we
And after all, what's in naugnt! -,
lust before the last race man with
a loud voice announced that the Drldge
IVES broken and that the trains would
be fifteen minutes late gong BACK 10
town.
Well. Bathilde was not going TO nave
the people sitting around with nothing
TO do after the final race, so he SET
about entertaining them. II was done
in the spirit of fun at first, but ne
finally began to believe it himself, ana
so did Mars Cassidy, for after using
up more than the allotted hfteen MN MN
utes Bathilde was asked TO retire, pc
fore doing so, however, he managed W
iniure Fairbrother by scraping MS leg
along the fence. ,, :,
Most of the people were jammed IN
the train for New YORK Wheh lrene
NON the last race, and it was so crowd
oil that they forgot to light up the
cars gojng through the tunnel and they
nearly forgot to take up the tickets.
Tbov fxed that up, however, by max
ing il cost you more to get out than 1t
y;l 20 oct in