The Washington herald., 1919-04-03
WISEST FOOL LANDS FEATURE
RACE FROM FRIZEUR AT BOWIE
Duchess Lace's Defeat Was No Disgrace-But
for Flying Start Gained by Winners
. Would Have Finished Second
RY asIG.n

stretch during the running of the
Bowie feature race yesterday, over
hauled the flying Frizeur 100 feet from
the finish and sped under the wire a
full half length TO the good, he brought
supreme joy to a few wtseacres and
a lot of rabbit shooters who previously
had been toting about-half-hopefully
half uncertainly-mutuel tickets bear
ing the magic number OF Il44.
And each of those tickets, to win.
paid $3.50 while for place Wisest
Fool paid 5000, with sls.7o on the
peep end.
Victory Not n Flukc.
Nor was the victory of Wisest
Fool any fluke. On his race at New
Orleans, when, shouldering 113, he
took the measure of Ragnarok and
War Mask. he figured so close to
Duchess Lace and Romeo that the
maryel seemed so few at the track
were inclined to give the sturdy son
of King James a better chance than
the mutueI play indicated.
Duchess Lace was fit as a fiddle,
as was Romeo, and 1t seemed that
the first mentioned had so gained
the confidence Of the majority of
the players that they regarded her
as the only horse in the race. But
when the horses came out on par
ade anyone with half an unpre-
judiced eye could tell that Trainer
Gorham had sent Wisest Fool to his
opener for the season in the pink of
condition.
Tne race. the BennIng Purse,
fourth on the card, opened to a
perfect start. Frizeur, hustled along
by obert. opened up a couple of
lengths of daylight with Hanky
Panky. Duchess Lace, Romeo and
wisest Fool. the latter under wraps,
taking up the pace.
At the stretch turn Duchess Lace.
Romeo apd DR.. Rae were close on
the heels Of FNriZeur. with Wisest
Fool rated Just behind them. \
sixteenth from the wire Rice let
down wisest Fool, and then began
as pretty a stretch duel as Bowie
ever staged. FriZeur, under urging.
had picked up new speed and open
ed up a good couple lensths- Wisest
Fool. however, was running all over
everything in the race and quickly
shot ahead OF the leader.
Duchess Lace's defeat was by no
means a disgrace, for she ran a
great race, and, had it not been for
the flying start gained by Frizeur'
certainly would have BEEN second.
She never could have beaten Wtsest
Fool yesterday.
Riding Material Improved.
The card was far better Offering
than that of the opening day, in
that the riding material was 200
per cent improved. with the ap-
pearance in the saddle of Butwell,
Rice, Sterling. W. Robinson and Nc
TaEgart. Rice. by the way, signal
lied his coming out" for the spring
season in the East by putting over
both of his mOunts-WlseSt FOOT
and Luther in the last.
Judging from the class OF riders
now at the track and the class OF
horses. the Bowie meeting will have
everything to commend it to lovers of
the sport
All that tends to mar it, so far as
Washingtonians are concerned, is the
class Of service offered by the w. b.
Z A. Old cars. snail-time schedules.
and the habit of starting only when
Ill breathing space is occupied, are
enough to take the edge of any zest
offered for an afternoons recreation
n the track. Not so with Baltimore
ans fourneyinC to Bowie. They have
he same type Of cars used regularly
between this and the Monumental
Tty. and they get a decent run Tor
he price Of their tickets, both to and
rom the track.
Cars of Ancient Make.
So ancient are the cars-discarded
abroad coaches-used between Wash
rngton and Bowie, that one facetlous
passenger. on the Ills (maybe) going
1ut, started looking along the coach
walls for the initials which he swore
Did Chief Seminole had carved theTe
n the dim past. Perhaps the old
-.bief date, long since) did carve them
here. at that; still, the searcheF
allied to find them.
On the old-time-tonight tram
which leaves the track after the last
-ace has been run and all the horses
ave been tucked in for the night, one
( those poor, worn-out coaches. wear
ID Of being yanked from its peaceful
rave and made again to work trled
, end its existence by inhaling the
-ames from the stovepipe; but. alas'
,a ruse was discovered and the fire
xtinglished. the only damage done
oDsfsting OF the water wasted and
me lost by the passengers. It's a
,fe bet, nevertheless, that that abused
oach will succeed in shaking itself to
pIintcrs before the gates Of Bowie are
losed.
oh, for good roads to Bowie or de-
mt car service, But, OF course
Washington can't expect to be treated
decently as Baltimore-not by a
srned sight
Coming back to the races Cmentally,
Ut via the w, B. and Al: The card
ssteriay again demonstrated that
lere Is some fine 2-year-old material
the track. The winner of the first
.ucs turned UP for the second time in
new one from the stable of H. p.
-hitney-Flying witch, a strappins
: ~ FLY by Broomstick-Fly by Night
he runner-up was Kallipolis. belong
to J. H. Shreve. with Marcelle NJ.
ird. The latter is the property OF
s. Murray. Both second and third
ere coupled in the mutuels, they be-
trained by n. X Beal.
Entry Finishes One-Two.
Another case OF an entry finishing
pgether was IN the sixth race when
he Herald's selection for the race
ilts u-won going away. with his
-ablsmate, Simon Pure, chasing him
II the evening feed depended upon