Evening star., 1924-10-07
| LAUREL ATTRACTS
$4,000 AT OPENING;
M|D|NETTE winner
Capital Heavily Represented
at Maryland Track, With
Ideal Racing Weather.
SLOW AND EASY SECOND,
METHOD THIRD, IN FIRST
Vicaire 0utruns Boatman and
Chuckle in Steeplechase Under
Well Judged Riding.
Special Dispatch to Tie Star.

RACE TRACK, LAUREL, Md, Oc-
tober king Horse came into his
own at Laurel Park this afternoon
Before the largest crowd which ever
jammed the picturesque plant, the
Maryland State Fair Association in
augurated the first of it's 23-day
meeting under conditions which were
most auspicious.
Climatic conditions for thorough
bred competition could not have been
improved upon, while the racing
strip was pronounced by students
OF the game as being lightning fast
Well balanced and well filled fields
We're the order and racing Of a whole
some and spirited nature was antici-
pated.
Officials estimated the crowd to be
in the neighborhood of $4,000 with
Washington patrons in the ma jority.
The spacious grandstand was a riot
of color, the feminine contingent with
their new fall styles of vived hues
lending pleasing effect to the color
scheme.
The opening number. a dash at
five and one-half furlongs for maiden
2-year-olds, attracted field of 10.
with Edward Beale McLean's Slow
and Easy the one most favored in
sumed command before the band had
gone two furlongs and was closely
pursued by All Gone, Menthol and
Midinette.
Midenette Takes Opener.
There was a general closing up at
the top of the stretch and at one
time Menthol seemed to have the race
in hand. Menthol cracked and Slow
and Easy once more went to the
front.
Fifty yards out the Mclean filly
looked the winner. but Ivan Parke,
Americas premier jockey, finding
room on the inner rail with Mid
inette. stepped through and passed
Slow and Easy in the last few strides
to will by half length. Three lengths
back of Slow and Easy came Men
thol.
Fencing in fearless fashion, Raj
PARIS Vicaire, which was coupled in
the betting with Hugh Garth's Beck,
accounted for the two-mile steeple-
chase event. Samuel Louis Boat
man was second and A. c. Bostwick's
Chuckle third.
Boatman, displaying rare early
speed, made all of the pace for the
first mile and half, but Vicaire,
under we'll judged ride by Pierce,
moved into the lead on the last turn
and outgamed the Louis timber-top-
per in the final drive.
Richard Pending's Roi Crag went
to the post the one most favored by
the form players, but after being
prominent for a mile gradually drop
ped back. and at the finish was COM
pletely out of the money.
Swinging Takes Third.
Washington turf fans were given
their first opportunity of seeing one
of the get of the Incompatible Man
o War under colorS in the third,
styled the Joppa, a five and -one half
furlong sprint for juveniles and the
secondary feature of the program.
The son of Americas greatest thor
oughbred, American Flag, while he
ran a smashing race, was denied VIC
tory through the fact that he was
tardy in leaving the barrier. At that
American Flag was third to Harry
Payne Whitney's Swinging and Wal
ter j. Salmon's Primrose, beaten a
nose and half a length.
Swinging, the Whitney Broomstick
f1lly was made the prohibitive favorite.
and after being rated off the early pace
set by Wood Stockton's Retire. raced the
latter into submission, and lasted long
enough to stall off a belated rush by
Primrose and American Flag.
American Flag and Primrose were
away none too we'll when the field was
triggered by Starter Milton, but both.
under hustling rides improved their
positions, and were gaining on the win
ner at the end. The score Of Swinging
made a double for Jockey Ivan Parke.
Crowd Cheers Nationals.
When it was posted on the tempo
rary board erected in the infield for
the purpose of showing the score be-
tween the Nationals and Giants that
Harris crew had overcome the Ma
tional League champions one run
lead by making three in the third the
large crowd cheered itself hoarse.
Then when it became known that
Goose Goslin had parked the pill
with pair of Nationals on the bases
the crowd yelled still longer and
louder. 1t was easily a National
crowd. Pandemonium fairly broke
loose when the Nationals added
another pair of counters in the fifth.
A blanket finish marked the finish
OF the fourth, a route affair of a
mile and one-eighth. in which but
Ave accepted the issue. with Albert
c. Bostwick's Lunetta the public
choice. Lunetta outbroke her op-
position, and, making every post a
winning one, was under the wire
a head in front OF Yankee. Princess,
while the latter had the fast-closing
Guelphs safe by a neck. The other
two were always o0truA.