Easy Victory Scored By M. Boussac's Pharis Longchamp,. June 25.
Showing that his victory in the French Derby was no fluke, M. Marcel Boussac's Pharis romped home an easy winner today in the Grand Prix de Paris, the "blue riband" of the French turf.
Although not pressed by his jockey, Charles Elliott, Pharis cantered past the post two and a half lengths ahead of Baron Edouard de Rothschild's Tricameron, which in tum finished the same distance ahead of M. Robert Lazard's Or.
There were 19 starters.
Pharis was hemmed in the rails at cne stage of the race, but in front of the grand stands he shot away from the field to win as he pleased. The time was 3 mins. 21-2/100 seconds.
A 10-frane winning ticket on Pharis yielded 21 franes, while the place dividends were, respectively, 15 francs, 26 francs and 21 franes—
Reuter.
At this stage one imagined that Whitcombe had reached the frame of mind in which he was ready to administer an amiable trouncing to his young opponent. Instead his troubles began immediately he turned. They started with a slightly cut drive which finished among the trees to the right of the tenth fairway.
When he tried to recover with 2 wooden club shot his ball struck an overhanging branch and defected to the rough on the op posite side of the fairway. His third was a long niblick pitch, but Locke, well on in two, won the hole with comfortable four.
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