The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-02
in SHORTHAND
PICKWICK RUNS OFF
 WITH LIBERTY BOND
Patched Up Cripple Shows Fine Form in Feature
 Event at Jamaica Track.


 A track heavy from the rain of Monday night played havoc with the. programme at Jamaica yesterday, but despite the many withdrawals the sport was above the average. The feature was the Liberty Loan Handi- cap, a dash at six furlongs for three year-olds and upward. It went to Thomas Monahan's Pickwick, the black son of Garry Hermann and Zoola, which formerly carried the silks of Joseph E. Widener.
 While in the Widener barn Pick wick was one of the fastest horses in the country, but he was unsound. He had bad feet and after almost every race it was necessary to throw him out of training. Because of his crip- pied condition MT. Widener did not think him worthy company for his more renowned horses and sold him to MT. Monohan. His new owner turned him over to Bill Clancy to train. Clancy has a knack of patch ing up cripples and Pickwick quickly improved under his care. At Aque- duct he came out for his first race in several months and displaying all his old time speed scored an easy victory.
 Because of that race he was the fa- vorite yesterday and heavily backed at 4 to He ran like an odds on favorite. He took the track before the first furlong had been covered and never left the result in doubt. All through the homestretch Rob- inson eased him up and as a result h. o11lxr oh of Mrs. Payne Whitney's Peter Piper when he passed the judges. Mrs. R. L. Bres- sler's Ultima, Thule took the third end of the purse ten lengths behind Mrs. Whitneys entry. The entire purse was paid in Liberty bonds. The Gowanus Selling Stakes, the other feature of the card, was won by Mrs. Bresslers Hank O'Day. His | dy's Choice. To beat them he had l him away winging and kept him in front until he had earned the victory | by half a length. Runes finished sec ond and Daddys Choice was third. The sixth race brought out the big gest field of the day. Nine high class fillies went forth to do battle and all Iidu oI IlOSI OI oupPOl lOISs | thee onsistent little daughter of Olam- l bala and Fantasque, belonging to Richard T. Wilson, Jr., earned pre- mier honors in easy fashion. Robin 1 son held her off the pace until an 1 eighth of a mile from home. At that point Minuet went to the front and 1 crossed the finish line a length and a half ahead of John Sanford's Mar VI | ed third.
 Snapdragon, the bay colt owned by Andrew Miller, which won the open | ing dash at Aqueduct last Saturday, came back in the second race and proved that he can run a distance at a fast clip. He defeated Poacher, Whimsy and Garbage over the mile and a sixteenth course without being forced to do his best. He followed 1 Whimsy to the bend. Then he took command and won easily by three lengths. Whimsy tired badly in the final furlong and Poacher beat him for second honors bs a length and a half.
 Marmite. a cast off from the Gif- ford A. Cochran stable, defeated a smart set of juveniles in the first race. 1 AL the enu oL the i've ana nall luF- long journey she was half a length ahead of Mrs. Payne Whitney's Sail or, which beat John J. Moran's Sky Man five lenghts for the place honors.
 The second event furnished the big gest surprise of the day Paddy Dear, belonging +o Bill Clancy, de- feated Pullux, an odds on favorite
 Paddy Dear was full of running and made every post a winning one. He finished eased up. a length and half ahead of PulluX. Hondo was third McCrann. who rode Hondo, was se- verely criticised for his bad ride. He
 Is only a fair jockey at best. but he
 rode Hondo like a novice. If he had
 allowed his mount to do his best
 Hondo would have beaten PulluX fol
 second money.