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HAKLEM RACING. Fridays, like Mondays, are usually eot down as "off days" m racing parlance. Fields made up for "poormens" horses and to give tho oft-defeated ones a chance to earn their oats and hay are characteristic of tho day on tho majority of the tracks of the country, with the expected result of a plsck attendance, to be compensated for by the booming big crowds that always ?o out Saturdays. It was Friday fields and a Friday crowd at Harlem yesterday but the asf emblage was sufficient to attest the high popularity of racing in Chicago, and the racing W8S of a character to have justified even a larger attendance. Eighteen maidens contested the opening mile daBh with Defender II. the favorite and winner. The outsider. Emma Nora, set the pace to the stretch with Defender II. handy. Midway of the stretch he challenged the leader, and in a sharply contested finish won out by a neck with nothing to spare. Maurice W. ran well enough to suggest a win before long. Mont Eagle vas the favorite for the twoyenr-old rBce that followed, but the improving filly, Huronia, went to the front in the stretch and won with great ease from Zeza, with Annis Palmer a good third, lapped out by the favorite. Huronia is possibly the best of h6r sex and aga at the track. Maceo and Lady Ellerslie II. were all that attracted serious attention in the third race, the latter being a strong favorite at oddB-on when the horses were sent to the post. It was a case of picking the wrong one of two. Maceo trailed -the field to the stretch, where he passed his competitors without urging and won easing up in fast time, with Lady Ellerslie II. second and Murat third. Murat showed a bieh measure of speed and disposed of Andes easily. Deerine overthrew the strong favorite Piccola in the mile and an eighth dash. It was strictly a two-borse race. throughout and Deering was easily the best. It was a good and fast race. Bob Tnrker liked it so well that he bid Deering up to 1,300, when he was offered for sale and is again his owner, the colt having been claimed from him out of a selling race a few days since. The Burns and Waternonse two-year-old .Lomond captured the fifth race in a way to suggest that he is regaining hiB best California form. Wasanta was second, Florizar third, and the hot favorite Pantland a bid fourth. The concluding race fell to the long shot Rosa Jdasso by a narrow margin from Pay the Fiddler, none of the batting choices being in evidence at the point that decides the money. A small army of carpenters is workiog strenuously to complete fifty-eight boxes in the upper story of the new grandstand and expect to have them ready for nse today.
