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W OVERTONS OVERTONES KENWOOD STAKES Five thousand persons saw the Washington Park races which were run on the fastest of tracks The weather was oppressively warm Twentyone Twenty bookmakers cut in Dunois Dubois started for the first time this season and large packages going on the price was knocked to 7 to 10 Skeets Skeet Martin must have known he had a good horre chore under him as he took things leisurely and trailed along gradually gaining and only coming to the front at the last sixteenthwhere sixteenth Cash Day was at once disposed off Ryans Ryan horse won as he pleased Millie M led to the turn for homo Albert S made his usual bluff and Miss Casey hung on to the last eighth Muskalonge Muskellunge caught and passed the fast dying Cash Day close in inPat inApt Pat Dunne believes in the Martin family and W was on Survivor H on Prince Harry the pair being always favorite at 4 to 5 Survivor at once went to the front to an excellent start and was not headed Galathee Althea named after the first production of the French poet Florian Florin chal chalk ¬ lenged longed at the bleaching board but Survivor tow away Stamina a 200 to 1 shot owned by Jjuke Juke Wishard Wished closed rapidly at the finish and got the place No bets on the colt were dis dais coverable on the sheets of the big bookmakers although when Staminas Stamina owners were leagued with J J McCafferty the latter never over ¬ looked having a bet on the long shots of the stable The finish behind the winner was an exciting one Tulla Tulle Fonso Fonts and Volyothen Polythene being close up The latter was played in the outof outdo town pool rooms and for a place was consid consider ¬ ered erred to be a rosy thing thingThe thigh The Kenwood Stakes worth 2190 to the win ¬ ner near for 2yearold colts was a spirited betting affair Smith Perry opened Formero Former at the longest price 3 to 1 and the block man was almost mobbed but yelling I will give you a lot of it kept the price up for some minutes King Barleycorn advanced in price as did W Overton Overtone On the last race Schorrs Scorers horse looked to hold Sinks safe but T Burns instead of Thorpe was up and it was remembered that there was a long drive at the finish The out ¬ siders sliders were rejected although there was a quiet tip from the stable on Hardy Pardee Parsee King Barleycorn showed no propensity to break and delayed the start When the flag fell Fardel Fade went out accompanied by W Overton Overtone and around the turn Gold Fox was third W Over ton won in a gallop The fight for place was a good one Hardy Pardee Parsee securing it and paying his backers 4 to 1 place and 2 to 1 to show King Barleycorn in trying to get through was cut off more than once Col Cool M Lewis Clark thought that Leighs Sleighs horse had very little chance to win Gold Fox found the distance a sixteenth too long longMiss longish Miss Gussie Gussied in the fourth race was not a cor coir ¬ rect react 7 to 5 shot she being quickly beaten although off second to Donna Rita who led to the middle of the back stretch Here Boanerges Beaneries always well up went on about his business and the farther he went the greater distance was he in the lead winning pulled up in record time Judge Denny Deny last at the quarter got to fourth position but there shot his bolt The Roman apparently quite out of the race three quarters from home finished with a rush beat ¬ ing King Timemaker Tidemark who had been ridden a waiting race raceCass racecar Cass Sloan won the last race with the 20 to 1 chance Topmast TopmastButton Topmast Button led to the last quarter Al Fresco third Clawson Lawson up the back stretch evidently had orders to wait and Morte Mote Fonso Fonts was away behind the leaders Charley Christy was hustling in front at the last eighth and here Morte Mote Fonso Fonts almost reached the front rank but along came Topmast shooting by as if the others were tied and beat them themSam themes Sam Hildreth Children Co and F W Doss were each fined 100 for improper registration of the ownership of respectively Bellicose and Hugh Penny The facts were developed by the squabble over the selling race won by Hugh Penny July 1 Bellicose running second The judges also suspended the pickaninny Pitcairn Rose for the balance of the meeting his offence being a rough ride on Facade which affected the chances of Aprils Lady LadyEd LadEd Ed Wolf a big bug in real estate matters at St Louis was at the track He says that St Louis racing is patronized better than ever and the crowd is never less than 3500 The book ¬ makers in number average seventeen seventeenTobe seventeen Tobe Toe Broderick Roderick of pacing horse fame was out advertising his crab moat supper to be held at Sunnyside Sunny tonight tonightMartin tonight Martin Mullen the crack amateur billiardist billiards of Cleveland arrived in town yesterday on his way to the copper country countryHarry country Harry Kuhl Kohl has advices of the incoming of the following stables Lew Blew Marion from St Louis with two head R Respass Trespass from Lutonia Plutonian with eight head R H Bronaugh Baronage Co from Latonia Antonia with Kittie Kitties B and four others othersGeorge others George W Bennett of Memphis whose large racing stable has shrunk to a trio of horses now running at St Louis passed through Chicago on his way from the East to his home and paid a visit to the track trackThe track The bookmakers spread out and occupied nearly twice as much space in the betting ring as on the Derby Day George Rose and Leo Mayer drew in on the dead line lineThe linnet The long bar at the north end of the betting has boon abandoned and a smaller one substi subset iuted jutted near the end books booksSam books Sam Summerfield Summarized with a few thousand to the good is said to be the largest winning book ¬ maker makerRiley maker Riley Grannan Granada bet on Miss Gussie Gussied GussieEd GussiEd Ed Corrigan who has been at Lexington since Tuesday returned yesterday morning morningIt morning It would prevent much rubbernecking and confusion in the betting ring were a jockey board placed in its center and well above the heads of such as desire to copy tho thou names of the riders ridersThe riders The conference of Washington Park officials spoken of yesterday had no significance ac ¬ cording to J W Kelsey stating that the judges stand was simply used as a spot for gossip on accountof account the breeze breezeThe breeze The watermelon man did a thriving business at Qarfield Garfield Park some years ago He was choked off because of the kick of the man hav have ¬ ing King the beer privilege His reinstatement at Washington Park will be applauded by the public publicThe public The Millbrook and Fleetwood yearlings will arrive in Chicago Saturday morning and will be on exhibition at Tattersalls Tattersall Saturday Sunday and Monday There are some particularly nice youngsters in the lot by Patron Blue Eyes Aintree Sainte Order Wagner Cavalier Hanover Michael Portland and George Kinney KinneyIn Kinney In his race yesterday Boanerges Beaneries established a new record for a mile and three sixteenths The previous record was 1 58t made by Henry Young 4 108 at Washington Park July 14 1891
