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SURPRISES AT HAWTHORNE High class racing is not to be expected all the time at any course but yesterdays card at Hawthorne was an unusually chaffy one and to make matters worse the fourth race 1 18 miles selling was declared off because of the withdrawal of David Tenny Teeny and Treachery and no substitute being provided race goers were favored with only five instead of the usual six races The day was a splendid one overhead its bright sky and clear air being suggestive of squirrel shooting to which sport possibly many persons gave the day At any rate they were somewhere else than at the racetrack where the attendance was so light as to cause a groan from the twenty bookmakers that cut in for one day dayThe date The first event on the card called for maiden twoyearolds toeholds and sixteen faced the starter Of these Sidtilla Scintilla was the favorite at 2 to 1 and did nothing People play these races as they do a roulette wheel and when the numbers went up backers of the Jow Jowl side and the odd were rewarded as whatever bright genius ar TtTcged Tattled the program a dream book must have helped him out as he put Hindoos Indoors Dream num numb ¬ ber beer one Teutons Stetsons number five Princess Mur Murk ¬ phy phys number three while Morons number four was reasonably close while the others finish ¬ ing King one two three us named Hindoos Indoors Dream was never beaded and the black boy Dupee Dupe brought her home pulling up Princess Murphy was never worse than third while Teutons Stetsons had a favorable position throughout Merops Metros Cal chas aud Maud Boardman Barman were next and fairly well up Our Clara was left standing still at the post postJ post J McDonald was there again with one of his Timemaker Tidemark rides in the second race This time he was on Wilson and although the start was excellent Mr Schorrs Scorers horse dropped back to last position which holding until the far turn McDonald rode so weJl weld from there on that Wilson finished third very close up and beat Afamada Alameda who threeeighths from home was ten lengths better than he Daisy F when Wilson was trailing was not much better off and she ran a close second to King Bermuda who was always near the leader Marzella Mazola Huffmans Huffman filly gave it up an eighth out and here Heigh High Ho appeared to have a chance Hardly was near enough to win throughout and finished with Afamada Alameda and Heigh High Ho closely behind Wilson King Bermuda had an easy game of it at the end endThis mentis This time the winning numbers 14 15 and 9 were on the high side sideIt siderite It proved to be an off day for Starter Bruen Braun and in the handicap he let go his trigger to the most miserable start seen in Chicago this year the favorite Paul Griggs Rigs being h jpelessly jealously loft at the post while George Lee was practically left These horses with Milwaukee were away in the rear at the first half and Plantain was lengths be bind the leaders they running in a close bunch Buckvidere Duckier Basquil Basque Found and Mistral II was the order up the backstretch but Plantain got to second position into the straight and having the inside rail was leading at the last eighth lere ere buckvidere duckier and the others wore stopping V L U the exception of Basquil Basque The latter came 01 strongly at the finish and was first home by an open length from Plantain who beat Mistral II easily Buckvidere Duckier finished fourth and George Leo was close to him The latter was yet many lengths behind the leaders at the turn for home and ran a remarkable race Found ran her race she having been severely treated by the handicapper Paul Griggs Rigs was pulled up seventyfive seventy yards out and Milwaukee was up at the sixteenth post Paul Griggs Rigs looked to be a good thing from his second of Monday wten ten Le carried 122 pounds Basquil Basque it is said was badly interfered with on the upper turu Taurus in the last race of Monday when his owners ai 3 friends wore down on him to a man manThe menthe The fourth race was a procession Verify th favorite winning all the way Ostra Rostra always second Facade was third for onehalf Neal mile then gave way to Lord Zeni Zen All the others were beaten away off after a quarter had been covered coveredHer covered Her Favor Nannie Nannies Davis and Official com ¬ prised praised the first division leaving the post but as at the half mile ground Graziella Grazie made her play she and Her Favor raced away from Nannie Nannies Davis three lengths into the straight Official a close fourth the others already out of it Her Favor gained two lengths in the next sixteenth but at the betting ring Graziella Grazie came alongside and an instant later bumped Her Favor who stopped to nothing while the other went on It was a great finish of three and none could pick the winner Graziella Grazie was placed first Nannie Nannies Davis second Official third Her Favor pulled up was fourth Prestar Restart showed speed thd thud first threeeighths threeeighthsJohnny Johnny McHale Chalet bet on Basquil Basque at 30 to 1 saying my horse can beat Buckvidere Duckier Vir Vr ¬ ginia gina Carroll was severely punished for his kidding as when a man bet 10 on Basquil Basque at 30 he posted 40 got another 10 and going to 50 was again winged When McHale Chalet bet him 10 at 30 to 1 Carroll said Thank you and McHale Chalet reciprocated the politeness when he got the ticket cashed cashedJ cashed J T Williams one of the old guard of south ¬ ern Bern turfmen Turkmen a man who owned tho thou great geld ¬ ing King Checkmate and the crack colts Joe Cotton and Bob Miles and who has at times filled the position of starter is in town He said I have only youngsters nowadays My business here is to soil some whisky and I thought I would like to look the boys over overW over W M Wallace said of Jimmy Michael the great bicyclist who for some mornings past has been exercising his Wallaces Wallace horses He has a good seat and can rido rio at 98 pounds He is anxious to ride and one of these days when I have an easy horse to ride and the field is small I am goiBg going to put him up upThe Ute The bad start in the handicap cannot be ex ¬ cused cussed because of the bad actions of the horses at tho thou post The starter must have patience patienceColey patience Coley Cooley Ullman Pullman beat Hindoos Indoors Dream and on Basquil Basque is credited with the winning of the snug sum of 2800 2800There There were twentytwo twenty scratches out of seventy our entries in five races racesThere Rochester There was some floating gossip concerning the running of Buckvidere Duckier BuckvidereThe The track was heavy but fairly dry
