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CIi OSING DAY AT HAWTHORNE, Hawthornes two weeks of racing came to an nd yesterday afternoon. An overflowing attendance, to the eye the best of the meeting, attested the popularity of the conrse end highly gratifying appreciation of the good card presented. The track was in fine condition and the afternoons sport was marked by several fast performances. Barton put up a two-mile mark of 3:28t, time that has only once been excelled and once equalled over a Chicago racetrack. Newton, with 107 pounds up, ran the distance at Washington Park July 13, 1893, in 3 :27i, and that fine old rogue Evanatus, with the feather of 87 pounds on his back, made a record of 3:28i over the Harlem course Sept. 6, 1S97. Barton is by no means a great racehorse but he is a very consistent rater and stayer, and with moderate weight up could put up a creditable record at four miles. Outside of this noteworthy performance Cherry Leaf did a mile in 1:40 flat with Bradleys tough and enduring Boney Boy forcing him to do his utmost, The Bteeplechase was marred by an accident. At the second jump the topweight, Jack Hayes, struck the obstacle and fell, rolling over his rider, Johnson, and injuring him severely. His hip joint was fractured and he was supposed to be injured internally. He was sent to a hospital for treatment. Unsightly met with an unexpected defeat in the first race. .Lady Elite was off with a flying start, and sotting a hot pace led to the far turn, where Mathews got up with Unsightly and unwisely rushed her along until ho had established a clear lead of from three to four lengths. She kept her lead until well down the stretch, where the useless effort told and Lady Elite overhauled her and won by a scant head. Lew Kraft was a good third. The second race fell to Harry Nutter, he defeating Samper Eadem, Espionage and five other more or less useful three-year-olds in a fast run seven-furlong dash. Teutons set the pace in the two-mile race for something over a mile and a half, with Barton in second place. On the far turn Barton was sent to the front, and coming along at his leisure won a capable race by four lengths, with Teutons second and the others beaten off. Chenierhad an easy task in the steeplechase after Jack Hayes fell and from that time on led throughout by a comfortable margin and won off by himself with Gypceiver a distant second. The mile handicap was marked by a hot finish between Cherry Leaf and Boney .Boy, with Monk Wayman a good third, and Elkin captured the closing racs of the day without much trouble.
