HOWARD MANN WINS
RESULT OF BROOKLYN HANDICAP.
New York, May 31.-It was a light weight this time in the mud, and how the crowd cheered when Howard Mann galloped home, almost alone, in the Brooklyn handicap at Gravesend this afternoon. The crowd was like that of the day the long shot Diablo walked off with the stake, for there was searcely an inch of speca in the grand stand or on the lawn that was not occupied when the race was being run, and hundreds of people had swarmed across the track ankle deep in mud to get a good position in the inflield. There was little hope of a large assemblage in the early morning hours, for a heavy fog hung over the land and drizzling rain was falling at intervals.
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Fourth race, Brooklyn handicap, one mile and one-quarter-Howard Mann, 105 (Martin), 3 to 1, first; Lake Shore, 106 (Scherrer), 10 to 1, second; Volley, 95 (Lamley), 15 to 1, third-time, 20:09 3/4. Loki, Handspring, Sir Walter, King Arthur II., Belmar, Ben Eder, Jefferson and The Swain also ran.

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The Chicago Chronicle, Chicago, mardi 1er juin 1897, p. 9.