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HOWARD fitINN WON TNIt | .= en i i r-\ r% r\ bKU(3KLYN"FOR G. t SMITH * Rplmcir thp C nit An Added Starter, Coupled with I.J 1 1 1U1 LI 1^ V_> WU Was at 3 to i, and Carried a Bale of Money. His Owner Alone Ret $20'000.The Race Won Almc)st from "End to End" in 2:09 3-4, Over a Heavy Track, Before About 20,000 People. <^x$x$x«x$><$x3xgx«xSx«> <S*m*><; By Julius Chambers. the Handicap started, great masses of a spurt, and, doubtless, so Sims regarded An Race to Ride. clouds were constantly in liis path. the effort. <^> Easy was cottonny It was one of the easiest races I THE eleventh Brooklyn Handicap "Tliey Are Off!"' During the supreme struggle the two y won at Gravesend by ever rode. I had the best mount yesterday The group at the head of the stretch, horses ran free of the group, The Swain Howard Mann a bay colt which had where track is broadened by the turn, being crowded back to fourth place by <V/ for such heavy going, and that's the never attracted much attention. He is the^ whole story. It was a fine run from was picturesque in the extreme. Unsoiled getting his head and shoulders In called Loki. start to finish. There was no owned by G. E. Smith, familiarly by the canter to the post, the wearers of front of him. When Handspring was Z Phil." 4 crowding and no trouble of any sort. "Pittsburg the silk were resplendent in their bright checked a trifle, Sims, doubtless fearing Two almost as unknown as the 4> I got a bully good start, Tod Sloane horses, colors. Careful study through a good glass that the,pace was too rapid for that point -and ran second off on Belmar pretty winner. Lake Shore Volley, told me that the horses were more tract- 1 n the race, the grand horse almost stopped, getting nearly T even with me. I had the front for a and third. able than usual on such occasions. Indeed, iind for an instant the thousands of T. ._ .,V, +V, /, 4> little bit, but I let The Swain take < were away on the third break at were astonished to see the McLeau to they got spectators the pace as we went the second featherweights, on a muddy track, got When Starter ( by the end of eight minutes. antry running second. I the front promptly and stayed there. furlong post. took second place < Pettiugill dropped the flag the glint of That sight broke the heart of < * and it The result recalled Eurus's "Suburban" seen 4> kept right along. My horse spurs and the splash of mud could be .He showed the true Hanover blood * ' and II.'s Brooklyn successes. It Handspring.< > was running easy under me and I Castaway from the grand stand. I hr rHvinc nn Olrl TTnnnvpr hirnsplf Tvrmlrl anew the uncertainties of the X felt all along that he was going to < emphasizes Almost i'Htantly The Swain, with his have done the same thing. I never turf. stay with the bunch. As we were < chocolate-faced ran to the front, to have seen him win a race after he <|> Here is the the eleven jockey, remember < > coming up the backstretch Sir Wal- ^ way candidates followed his companion on the was headed.no matter what closely by fairly might ter showed a good burst and had me lined up at the head of the stretch, ready outside of the track, Howard Mann. Nearer be the of the that did X for the flag.Handspring having the pole lineage quadruped 2,. scared for a few seconds. Hand- < the rail was Handspring, a prince among it. Any steeple climbing goat could make 4> showed of or inside position: Sims held the spring, too, signs waking 4 so ma My untitled steeds. him quit; but get him off in the lead, then and I was a lament X up, little anxious, but \ horse's head as in a vise, and, I to let him alone and he was a world beater, a X when I '2 2 p until felt the big fellow stretch 4 say, continued to do the same thing record breaker and a streak of money "himself under me I knew I had 'em < lost to him. The <$> the race was hopelessly lown the track! I didn't have to raise my - ~ horse was the heavily i ^ £ 2 big Dwyer only Now we were about to see another Sbeat. or so much as kick him in the >.Sk.r to <whip% handicapped entry that was able get who appreciated the unspeakable animal ribs. He did it all himself. All I 4 among the group of feather-weights; Sir * ^ tage of being ahead. From that adran< > had to do was to sit in the saddle X 1.. i * i Walter and Belmar were behind everything i was famous his 1i- .h he and harne willmomentt and hold him in I didn't ^ Shore. place. 2 <SxSxSxSxsx«> except Lake I ive as long as the American turf endures know until an hour before the race and swaying where the mud Struggling .his name is Howard Mann. Beyond the <j> that I was going to ride Howard « y The Training of Howard Mann. ¥ was deepest, horses and riders came to the * three-qharter pole lie never was headed. y Mann. Mr. Smith engaged me to I on Howard The parade through the quagmire-like first Thrilling as was the scene, *' began working ¥ quarter. From that point the featherweights came ride one of his entries some time % y Mann in All of track hardly elicited the usual amount of impetuous as was the pace, the crowd along February. '-y nto play again. The race to the turn was ... ago, but I didn't know which one it f his was done at Morris enthusiasm. Cheers were heard for the showed uone of the iooked-for madness training ! i series of spurts on the part of King <$> would be. It was easy sailing, Park. I had in hand at the Dwver horse. Handspring, which had been that steeds evoke. Almost in ^ ¥ l^im ... galloping Arthur II. (of whom much was expected, though, and of course I'm glad I same with favorite until twenty-four hours before the Swain still like a 'J:' % ¥ time Belmar. Mann be- ¥ with The running silence,?ven the last was now had the chance of riding such a game race, when the Smith stable had divided moment). Volley % <| X gan to show good form early in }' deer, the large field of thoroughbreds ilaced with .. mount.<i, honors with the sixth, Sir Walter pressing him HARRY the Spring. At first he was a Brooklyn entry. rushed Into the first turn. It didn't look, hard. MARTIN, <i y A at Doubt untl Dread. But far ahead could still be The <$> ¥ horse of unusually good temper, ¥ Dn^ like a weight-carrier's day. Races have <§> Winning Jockey. the hothouse of the the purple and yellow of "Pittsburgdeicribed but a few weeks ago he became t Possibly humidity been run before at Gravesend, and the Phil." £ atmosphere had a depressing effect upon very ugiy. Then he got all right ¥ quitting time of the sprinters was now Whether he was Belmar or Howard most of the 20,009 people on the damp uses men make of their voices! again, and I was satisfied that he looked for with more curiosity than fear. as crowd contrasting <y and or in the stand. Mann, the knew later, the Smith would give a good account of steaming lawns, grand Jefferson, Mr. Beard's wonder, that had horse "Howard Mann ^vins!" was the thought. There were and doubt on swung into the turn with a full self in any company. X anxiety every to the was the first quitter. In Down the homestretch, swift and intent, himX kept fore, ciigiu ui suungiit oerween nim and bis He was entered in face you loaked in. less time than it takes to write the fact, he he came. He is ridden almost straight ¥ only two ¥ A of been marpst pursuer, Lokl. The mount with the / events over at Morris Park. In day Surprises had already back from fourth place to seventh. Into our faces. His eyes can be seen and y by the earlier races. for dropped canary-colored jacket couldn't be shaken those of two other horses that trail the first one he was left at the Victoryforeshadowed he was crowded on the turn, but behind, ¥ ¥ the favorites would have their Possibly )ff, and Sir Walter, who was suddenly but the breasts and faces of animal and post by an accident. Merry Prince surprised was so far ¥ this his last appearance, as any flinf ... w,,. <$> backers. Every roil ef thunder the cushed through the bunch from seventh to rider are covered with mud. by race was concerned. artillery of Heaven the hlrd place, couldn't catch him. The finish was a on the rest X which Mann started.a mile and a X during long, rainy Belniar Comes l"p. painful joke night had been a tip on1 Volley and his Thlf! rush of Sir Walter was the of the field. Apparently the Unknown won quarterhe won in a canter, beat- < > Belmar ran up'with a rush that implied thrilling class; every splash of the shower had plsode of the turn into the so that little Martin the some horses.