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Show True Wing Wins Kansas City Derby Ten Thousand People Witness the Race, Birkenruth Bringing His Mount in First. KANSAS CITY. April 22 -Ten thousand people at Elm Ridge this afternoon saw T H Ryan's True Wing, cleverly ridden by Plrkenruth win the first renewal it the Kansas City derby easily by a length from Pat Dunne's Devout Five lengths buck came, Ara. staggering and out to the last ounce. The distance, a mile and one-fourth, one-fourth, was covered In 2 t06i . a record for tho course. Were Six Starters. There were only six starters. Starter Holtman sent them away In perfect alignment, align-ment, but l.Tnr i furlong had been co -ered the field was hudly strung out. Lar-sen Lar-sen on Devout evidently had "hurry-up" orders, as he shot ti the front with the son of Piet.- and passing the stand the first he was five lengths In front and was running with his mouth wide open. True Wing was hocoiuI and Ara third. Devout continued to lead the procession when the pa e began to tell on him, .and Troe Wing, which had been rated nicely by Birkenruth; passed him a sixteenth .,f a mile out and went on and won easll Devout was easily tlx- best of the th.-r.j Ara ran a game race, being under a drive for fully a half-mile. The Ryan Ally was a etralgbt favorite in tin- bi ttVlg. The purse !s $3000 added Here Are Results. First, f'i furlongs Cilfton Forge won. Envoy second, Agellna third Time lr0f4. Second, one mile Golden Mineral won. The Lady Roheela second, Ada N. third Tim.-. l iC'j Third, half-mile Hadur won. Flimnah second. Ramons 11 third. Time. l':48. Fourth. Derbv. one and one-uarler ml0STrue Whig. 112. Rlrkenruth. 0 to f,. won; Devout. 117 Larson. 4 to 1, second; At. 117. Klnz. to 1. third. Time. 2 06. Relle Indian Rotindelnv and Dn.xel also ran. l'ifth. one and one-sixteenth miles Alma Dufour won Rough and Tumble second Foncaata tlilrd Time, 1:48. Sixth seven furlongs Rryan won. Cholk Hedrlck second, HerceB third. Time. 1:27. |