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Show ENTRIES CLOSE FOR BROOKLYN HANDICAP ! Tribune Special, Sporting Service. NTAV YORK. May 29. lOntries for the Brooklyn .Tockey club's stakes at Gravcsend closed a week ago Saturday. A few belated ones from out of the way points may yet arrive, but tho list is 'practically complete. I'or the Brooklyn handicap, which this year has a gross value of $;1000, nineteen of I he best in training have been named. J-Mve of the eligibles raced in last year's renewal, and among thorn is Celt, .lames Jt. Keene's winner. King James, winner of this year's Metropolitan, Metro-politan, is entered, as is "Fayette, runner-up in that contest. With only these Ihree in tho race would bo worth going miles to see, but when I here are inoro than a dozen I classv ones from which to draw to add j to the uncertainties, the race indeed promises to be a good one. Field Mouse and Half Sovereign come from August Belmont 's string: Mr. 7vecne has in Hilarious, Turncoat ami Affliction, Afflic-tion, in addition to Celt; H.ildreth backs up King James by T?estigonche, Montgomery, Mont-gomery, Joe Madden and Fit. Herbert, while the others include Frank Hill. Jack Atkin. Wise Mason, High Private. Master Robert, Brother Jonathan and Berkeley. Weights for the big raee were announced an-nounced by Mr. Yosburgh on May 2.1. and the event will be run off June '.. The other stakes to be decided, which nlso have closed, include: Brookdale handicap, mile and a furlong, fur-long, and Parkway, at a mile and one-sixteenth, one-sixteenth, each worth .$250(1; the Myr-' tie and Pntchoguo at a mlie and a furlong fur-long and six furlongs, with $1000 added each: the Broadway for .'-year-olds of $2i3O0 and the (?fat American and , Trcinont of the same amount for youngsters, and rhe Criterion. Manhan- I set and Bedford, also for 2-vcar-olds, j with $1000 added each. The three steeplechases are the Empire State. j Greater Xew York and Kensington, all I old fixtures of the club. i Sliding to Ease. At one time tho slide whk on Iho principle prin-ciple of cutting Ihore to the coveted hns; (Iiitolc; the runner slid head first, like a football man luekllng. and arrlvod In the rentei' of a huge tornado of du.u that admitted of no posnlMo delusion as lo his whereabouts. Now ami this Is a llr-Crnw llr-Crnw Invention; ho calls It tho "fall-away" "fall-away" slide the plan Is to arrive not only fast, but also as Invulnerably as pos-siblo. pos-siblo. The runnor slides feel llrst and well behind the hair. Mis right lep is straight ahead, ns a brake, and his left leg, extended nt right angles to the body. Just touches the a?v with the tip of his toe. The "whole body Is nway from the tasjser; he must touch the toe to tap the man out. For hours I watched JIoGraw line up his mii and send them In turn at the bag; lo practice the "fall-away" slide. It was much like the falling on the ball of a football s(uad. and the result to tho muscle much the same. I should JudRc from the rueful countenance of each man as he roae. From the June Everybody's. |