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TROUBLE FOB EOLLKK. It was a fine afternoon at Hawthorne Thursday, and although the card was only ordinary, by far the largest crowd of the week was on hand. W. H. "Dutch" Roller got himself into trouble for winning a raco. This same Boiler has been in the worst of luck for some time, but his old friends stuck to him and they certainly must have been well rewarded by Einers win in the fourth race. This horse has been a consistent last or "atao ran" in most of his recent races, and on this form it did not seem that he bad a chance to beat such horses as Samovar, Mayme M. 31. or Prince Blazes at and mile and a quarter. Evidently Boiler and his Dearest friends thought differently, as they backed Einer down from 15 to 1 to 10 to 1. They were certainly right, for Einer went to the front shortly after the start and led from "eend to eend" and won as he pleased. Mayme M. M. finished second, Prince Blazes third and Samovar, who had beaten Einer a city block the last time they met, fourth Jndge Bees hesitated a long time before officially announcing Einer as the winner and then sent for Roller. The latter was told that the further entry of Einer would be refused and was severely drawn over the coals for the horses sudden awakening. Perhaps the worst lot of horees that could bo found made up the field in the fifth race. It was at a mile, and not one of the starters was worth the price of his board. False Lead was backed and so.was Three Bars, but neither of them proved, good enough to win. Gadsden, a 50 to 1 chance, was lucky enough to carry off the purse. The two-year-olds racing at the local tracks are certainly a bad lot. Proof of this is that they beat one another so often. In- the first race there wore fourteen of these youngstors and Merito was favorite. She ran a fine race, but landed in second place, the winner turning up in Erla dOr. There was a long delay in the second race before the starter could get the field away, and when he did the horees were all mixed up and there was a bad jam on the first turn. Once straightened away down the backstretch Murat went to the front and showed the way well into the stretch. But about the eighth post along came Mary Kinsella and glided by Murat and Loyaletta as though they were stationary and won off by herself. After Mary Kinsella parted company with Murat and Loyaletta the former became very tired, and when Knapp made his final effort to beat Loyaletta for the place he resorted to foul tactics. Murat finished second, but was promptly set back for fouling. Fair Decaiver won the third event, which was at seven furlongs, very handily from Sim W. The latter appeared to have Fair Deceiver beaten at the head of the stretch but under his heavy impost of 121 pounds tired at the end and was extremely lucky to baat Miss Ross for second place. There was considerable promiscuous talk about Tabors rido on Sim W. He, however, did his bast, and the judge seemed satisfied, in a way, and turnod his deaf ear to the scandal-mongers. The last race was a cake walk for Silver Tone. He broke second but went to the front on the first turn, and. Batting his own pace, won off by himself by throe lengths from Jim McClevy. Judge Bees did not like the way Hardly has baen raced and hor entry will be refused at Hawthorne hereafter.
