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Show SIR HARTIH BEATS KEIFS MASKETTE With (lie Handicap Weight Removed, Re-moved, Madden's Colt Makes Good. NEW YORK, Sept. 5. Under nearly equal weight conditions, John E. Madden's Mad-den's colt, Sir Martin, and James R. Keeno's futurit- winner, Maskettc, mot this afternoou in the rich FlatbiiBh stakes at Sheopshead Bay and Sir Martin Mar-tin won. As in tho futurity. Sir Martin Mar-tin had run well while giving thc Keeno filly nino pounds, shouldering 127 to her IIS, it was thought that today, with the handicap removed, ho might tako her measure, and he did not disappoint dis-appoint his admirers. The result has givou rise to a belief in some quarters that after all, the question of tlie best two-year-old of tho senson is not vet settled and, perhaps, is one altogether of weights, if not of distance also, tho Flatbush stakes which Sir Martin won today being seven furlongs to the futurity's fu-turity's six. In tho raco todav, Wedding Wed-ding Bells jumped into tho lend at tho start b' a length and a half, with Maskettc and Sir Martin in close attendance. at-tendance. At tho bend into the stretch Maskettc took the lead by half a length, with Sir Martin second. Schilling Schil-ling put Sir Martin under a drivo, aud, catching thc Keeno filly at tho furlong polo, took tho lead and won . easily by four lengths. ' First race,, six and one-half furlongs Itose.ben, won; Tom McGrath, second; sec-ond; Dbmund, third. Time, .1:10 2-5. Second race, about two miles and a half Samotus, won; Ironsides, second; Malicca, third. Timo, 5:00 U-3. Third race. Boven furlongs Sir Martin, Mar-tin, won: Maskotte, second; Fayette, third. Timo, 1:27 2-5. Fourth raco, mile and a half Ballot, won: King James, second; Dorante, third. Timo, 2:30 3-5. Fifth raco, one niilo and three-sixteenths Miss Crawford, won; Moufort, second; Dnrknight, third. Time, 2:00 1-5. . Sixth race, fivo and one-half furlongs Summer Night, won; Rossncr, second; Lasata, third, TimcT 1:07 3-5. |