New-York tribune., 1918-07-25
Papp Is Forced
ToBow Before
Selling Platers
Finishes Last in Knicker-
booker Handicap at En-
pire City Track

year. axe, 1OE instance, Eapp. lnlS
big son of Peter Ounce was a high
class two-year-od in 1917. He capt
ured the Futurity and several ether
notable events, and won close to S40,-
000 This year he has earned only
third money, and that was due entirely
70 the fact that there were only three
starters in that particular race.
At the Empire City track yesterday
he tried again in the Knickerbocker
Handicap, worth $4,000. and though he
was opposed by some of the poorest
three -year-olds in America, only selling
platers, he was beaten Off and finished
last in field of five contestants. En-
hlade was the winner, and she made an
exhibition of Papp.
Papp won't do. He has been put to
the test several times this season and
has failed miserably in each race.
Maxey Hirsch, his trainer, is q clever
man in his line Of work and rarely
makes mistakes about his horses, but
he was free to confess after the race
that Papp had fooled him. Before the
race Hirsch was 100 per cent confident
that Papp would win.
Papp's Poor Showing
The only theory to advance for
Papp's poor showing this year is that
he has at last reverted to type His
oiAOS OeSA &uiuNCs WcS a 1881 uOTSt.
but the greatest coward that ever
looked through pair of blinkers
When Papp won races under the whip
last year and showed form of cham
pionship caibre trainers said, "The son
is better than his dad"
In every race this year Papp has
shown speed, but has stopped under
pull when he reached the head Of the
stretch. This was true to type for that
was the way, in many races, that Peter
Ounce acted. After he had finished
last trainers recalled his pedigree, and
sarcastcally said, Blood will tell"
A few there were in that crowd OF
5000 track patrons who were ready to
offer up an alibi for the poor exhibit
tlon made by Papp. "He threw out
curb at Aqueduct," said these apoloz
gsts, "and he probably stops when he
teels the Jar of his hoofs on the hard
track But the trainers would have
none of this, and said Papp was mo
| horse, just an animal" and pointed to
the fact that Trainer Hirsch had killed
the bad effects of the curb several
weeks ago. Until Papp shows the pro-
iessional patrons of racing something
Lemon, son of Peter Ounce"
In this frame of mind, it was an EASY
matter for the handicappers to back
Entilade, and this they did to the finan-
cial depression of the layers bank
rolls. The daughter of Ramrod-La
Rllle was backed from 9 to to 3 to l..
And to the great joy of her admirers
she came home on the chin strap.
The race was practically short
sprint and then a gallop for Enfilade.
She executed the sprint early took a
commanding lead of four lengths the
= first half mile and then leisurely
showed the way for the remainder of
the mile and a sixteenth.
Enfllade continued her romp to the
end. Jusqu' au Bout, after being pulled
hither and yon, like ball on a string,
pinched off once on the inside, ana
earned second money by head from
Matinee Idol. Recount stumbled and
nearly fell on the first turn, and he
held down last place to the stretch,
; where he was graciously relieved from
that place by Papp.
, Comfort Gains Victory
The old saying, "It's long lane that
. hasn't a turn" is particularly applica-
BILE to the success of Comfort in the
last race. A. H. Diaz, her owner, a rich
planter of Cuba, came to the United
! States early this spring with several
horses, among them Orestes, the So
called Hindoo of the Antilles nom
de course the colt earned because he
had won several races at Havana last
winter and was rated the best through
bred in Cuba. Hope of many victories
on the turf here fairly bubbled in the
breast of the popular Cuban planter.
In spirit Of patriotism for the Allied
cause against the Hun he bought at
l, an excess price two tilies at a recent
, sale because the proceeds of the sale
were to be donated to a worthy cause.
, But as far as luck with his horses was
concerned fate was against him. and it
seemed that the lane of his endeavors
had no turning, but extended to the
broad plains of Texas. Not a race did
! his thoroughbreds win till yesterday.
= = Then it was that the tickle Jade, Dame
Fortune, turned her smiles on Senior
Diaz's orange and black racing colors
Not content with smiling, the old girl
turned the whole battery of her blan-
dlshments on them, for Comfort was
! quoted at SO to ! by the layers
I Whether Senor Diaz backed Comfort
8 could not be learned, as it was the last
5 race and too late for any chance tc
wager on his horses whenever they
race, it is assumed that he did not
overlook this opportunity to win &
small fortune from the proverbial shoe
string. If he did bet on the daughter
of Broomstick, then, to pull pun, she
8 WAS lnueed comfort to him.
v Comfort was owned by H. p. Whit
ney this spring and raced in his colors
y until recently. During the meeting al
Plmlico the paddock experts said she
+. had worked some private trials faster
), than Cresson, the flly that won severa
. races for Mr.. Whitney and was ratee
Q faster than any iilly in Maryland. Bu
comfort never raced up to her private
trials and few weeks ago was sold t(
} Senor Dlaz. Since then she has showr
! marked Improvement. She traled JUL,
9 Bean to the homestretch and then drew
= out and won in gallop by five lengths
. Stiletto, a good thing" backed from
. II to down to 6 to |, finished second
0 Scoots, sister of the fast sprinte,
l Leochares, again failed after bein.
y heavily backed for the second time dur
0 ing the meeting.
/ Sea Pirates Streak Broken
Yurucari checked the winning caree
of Sea Pirate by beating out the recort
!, holder by head in long drive from
4 the head of the stretch Sea Pirat
!. beat furucari away from the barrie
10 by nearly length, but the Amsterdam
d bred colt clung to his hip all the wa,
Is and beat him out in the last ten yards
:. Both colts like distance Of ground
:. but 4urucari is exceptionally good owe
= a long distance. If the race had bee,
the full six furlongs instead of tn
Futurity course Yurucari would hav
hV tar +b