The Washington herald., 1921-10-07
OUTSIDERS HAVE
HEALTHY DAY AT
MARYLAND TRACK.
Butwell Rides The Archer
To Easy Win Over Irish
Kiss, Choice.
3 PAY BIG PRICES
'cock O. the Roost Takes Fea-
ture, a Six-Furlong Dash.
Sailing Along Pays $3.50.
3 PAY BIG PRICES
ny RAY HELGEsEN.

Four real upsets featured the
'hird day of the annual fall meet
ing at Laurel Park, Md, yesterday.
Ihree of them paid prices ranging
from sli to SIS for 81. The other.
Jimmy Butwell's victory on Tho
archer over Clean Gone and Irish
Mss while not nearly so healthy
from a monetary standpoint, was.
nevertheless, probably the most
surprising result of the day.
n crowd closely approximating
IN size that of the opening day
turned out to watch the running
OF the third days racing at the
popular Maryland track.
The Archer Wins Easily.
Butwel's victory on The Archer
IN the sixth event. a race Of a mile
ana a quarter for 3-year- -olds and
upwards, was. besides being unex-
spected, an extremely easy one. With
a Held of but three starters. Irish
Mss was figured as the "class."
with Clean Gone as second choice
IN the mutuels. The Archer was
played only lightly and then al
most entirely in the 50 mutuels.
The running of the race. how
ever, showed the wise gentlemen
their error. Butwell got The Archer
on to flying start and was never
- headed. Throughout the long grind
The Archer made the pace, never
appeared to be in danger and won
pulling up with the smiling Jimmy
looking over his shoulder at the
badly beaten pair of favorites.
Irish Kiss was second and Clean
Gone took the show money mainly
because there was no other starter.
Clean Gone" just about explains
the way Clean Gone finished. A
mile and a quarter appears a bit
lengthy for this party.
Another Outsider Wins
The Avalon" handicap, carded as
the feature event of the day pro-
Vided the spot for the downfall of
another hot favorite. This was a
dash of six furIongs and was cap
tured by J. r. Skinker's Cock o. the
Roost. a rank outsider despite his
good showing OF the day before, In
1:12 2-5. but four-fifths of a second
slower than the track record for
this distance. and almost two sec
onds faster than the six furlong
sprint which he won Wednesday
F. A Goss' The Boy was figured
to have this event sewed up but
IL turned out that he was lucky
to finish in the money.
Cock o. the Roost got a good
break at the barrier and was away
fUell with the rest of the field pretty
well punched. Well Finder man
aged to get clear coming into the
stretch, and the winner was hard
put to keep his head In front. At
the finish Cock o. the Roost was
tiring. while Well Finder was COM
ing on, and had the race been a
half furIong more Mrs. r. /. Miller's
entry would undoubtedly have been
third and on his-showing in this
race will have a tough job earning
his feed at this meeting.
Was 1t q Partyf
II was whispered around the pad
dock early in the afternoon that
"Bilr' Burttschell, Skinker's trainer,
knew something" At any rate, Of
four horses entered under the skim
ker colors three-Trantula, Fort
Bliss and Eddie Rickenbacker-
were scratched, leaving Cock O. the
Roost to carry the burden alone.
Carry IL he did, and his price. s14.So,
will tell you how successful he was
The steeplechase, always a pop-
ular event at Maryland tracks.
brought out a fair field, of which
LeMarsouin appeared much the
best. This jumper. trained by Billy
Garth. had little trouble and cana
through handily. Distant shore
figured largely in the machines. but
was unable to do better than place,
Lieut. Seas took the show mouey.
with the rest of the field trailing.
In the opener. Fair Virginia and
.Attoo carried plenty of money. but
both were forced to follow Mad
Nell. a comparative outsider. to t.e
: wire. Fair Virginia grabbed the
place money, with Attoo on the