New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-26
Goes
TO War Mask.
Dundee Horse
Little Italy Rejoices When
Favorite Sons Entry Takes
Hanover at Good Price
By w. ]. Macbeth


The spaghetti trails of our lower
East Side should be strewn with dead
soldiers this morning if they ere not.
War Mask won the Hanover Handicap
at mile, the feature Of yesterdays
racing program at the Aqueduct
course. War Mask is a four-year-o
bay gelding by Star Shoot-Miss Kear-
ney; but that is only incidental.
War Mask is the property If
Johnny Dundee, the popular lieht-
weight who is one of the foremost #
challengers for the crown worn Nv
Benny Leonard. Dundee is known to
the unretined sporting parlance as the
Scotch-Wop He isn't a Scotchman at
al. His real name is Joseph Giusenpe
Carrora and he halls from Little italy.
Bravo! ''
Not only was Johnny at the track.
surrounded by his ever-faithful booy
guard to root home the light blue and
pink, but by all the Giuseppes and
oarroras and Pizzolas ping excepted)
ana most everybody else that amounts
to anything in Little Italy. johnny
had passed the tip around till an in.
vestment in War Mask looked safer
than the Bank of Italy. And then. was
not Coltilletti to ride War Mask ?
Bravo again, and couple of mora
braves.
Little Italy Plunges
Little Italy not only got all the
money, but got the run of it's life for
same. In field of half dozen War
MASK was least regarded by the laiety
outside of Crystal Ford, the rank on,
slder: The gelding opened at skies,
put there was such a heavy play on
the favorite, Sam Hildreth's Va]or
and on Audacious that the price soon
SCARED to 8, to and even, and at
that figure Little Italy clambered
aboard I"
valor, which was played like one
ALREADY IN, looked rather high in flesh
as ne paraded to the post, and such
nuse nave been the case, for he didn't
LOOK much at any time after the start.
", AS to the hopes of Little Italy. Saw.
War Mask tore around that ola racs.
track like General Cadorna's brayest
IN retreat along the Piave. He broke
away from the barrier last, but in the
flrst quarter mile had worked nm IN
the rail to the front. He carried the
neld st such a clip through the hack
stretch as to break the hearts of Car
narvon and War Marvel, in turn. Valor
never had a look-in.
Audacious, the second choice. the
only one that ever figured to beat War
Mask the way the race was run. had a
stormy passage under Buxton's hand
ing which may have cost him the
race. buxton took Audacious the over
iand route, all the way, and probably
ran MN close to sixteenth further
IMAM the pacemaker travelled. The re-
suit was that so much was taken out
OF Audaclous in making up his disad-
vantage through the long stretch he
was pretty we'll blown when he finally
got up to War Mask In a thrilling
duel through the last sixteenth War
Mask not only outgamed Audacious. but
Coltiletti outrode Buxton. Viye la
Italia for tina last time.
Only One Form Upset
The crowd again was a bumper Int
scarcely OF the proportions of BROOKLYN
Handlcap day. War Masks victory was
the only marked upset. No fewer than
tour choices bobbed down in front
Sam Hildreth's Dominique, starting for
the first time, had only to canter to
beat Sunnyland and Henry G. in the
third race, at six and half furlonrs.
re was odds-on at l to 10. w. G.
Ciancy's Paddy Dear was almost as
sure winner Of the fifth, at a mile
and sixteenth, though Huron II a
rank outsider, nosed out Regresso, the
heavily played second choice. for the
place.
The Red Stone Stables Whisk, also
out TOR the first time, won the mile
second in hollow fashion after Barrett
had taken his mount all over the track
'Whlsk had to be about fifty pounds the
best to win under Barrett's handling,
A very weak finish by Nolan allowed
X. /. Wilson's Rankin. the favorite. to
beat Day Lily, second choice, of the
opening dash, at five furlongs.
Commander j. X. L. Ross's Jacobina
vas nosed out at the wire by J. e.
Davls's Prodigy in the closing sprint
at four and half furlongs.