New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-04

WI IL OfSl dN0 GO IlllhS.
Business is not quite so good at the
Spa, and all over town one is con-
fronted with Rooms, to Let" signs.
Saratoga attendances never have been
much to brag about for the first couple
of weeks of the August meeting. This
year by far better than an average
crowd watched the opening day races.
But the great majority of them since
have been conspicuous by their alb
sence. Whether they have gone back
to town or are camoufaged as stately
elms in the park the good men who dis
play odds on the lawn are curious to
know. Certain it is the racetrack
yawhs dismally in their absence
The old meeting probably is smok
ing up for something really worth
while against the half holiday of Satur-
day, when New York may be expected
to furnish its metropolitan multitudes.
But to date the racing has been but a
little Improvement on that which pre-
vailed around the metropolitan dis
tricts. Form is as strangely absent as
at any of the tracks around New York.
All manner of long priced horseffesh
comes traipsing down ahead Of the good
things. The only successful players
are those. that show a preference for
sound or color and string along with
pretty naHc or gaudy Bit Of silk.
Even the Boobies Complain -
AS much horse talk as ever. But
action runs about 95 per cent to con-
versation. The walls that go back
home every hour Of the day are purely
heartrending. The regulars are
busted fiat. Every one one meets is
singing the same tale Of woe. If
veracity is not a lost virtue nobody
has cashed a bet since the meet
opened ercept the books, and the oral
lists are hollering louder than any of
the rest. They claim the good men
it on the lam, leaving nothing but
wake of markers in their trail.
In the line of entertainment the
town has gone mad about hide and
seek or blindman's buff of childhood
days. It's great game, in which the
guilible betsor taxes his wits on the
proposition of sidestepping his credi-
tors. The postoffce and the telegraph
companies are the principal preying
who live further away than Glens
Falls eventually have to show up at
one of these air holes to get the
wherewithal to escape. ss..
Relief is in sight for the little bo-
peeps Of the pad and pencil. The first
Of series Of horse sales is to open
a. the popular paddocks. And, of
course, there is always a chance under
cover of darkness to lift a poke or a
brass watch. Arthur Hancock is maxi
ing one of the biggest consignments
through the Saratoga Sales Company
in sixteen yearhngs sired by Omar
Khayyam, winner of the Kentucky
Derby of 1918.
The racing this afternoon was
scarcely up to approved Saratoga
standards, any way one cared to view
It, The fields we're cheaper than those
that usually parade at the Spa and
somewhat messed up to boot in the
matter of scratching. Then, too, there
were quite enough upsets to make the
hard pressed and long suffering stu
dents of form feel right at home.
Two Feathers Surprises -
The prize package in the matter Of
somersaults developed in the feature
Of the afternoon-the Pittsheld Handi-.
cap at mile, in which form went alb
solutely fooey. This trial was won by
Mrs. w. NJ. Jeffords's Two Feathers,
the rank outsider of field of seven,
that beat William Daniels Costiwn in.
a hard drive. Two Feathers, which
was backed from Is to l to 10 to i (,
woke up with bang after showing
some unworthy performance in worse
company. Trainer Bob Smith has al