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HAWTHORNES CLOSE. Hawthornes third fortnight of racing, closed Saturday with a hurrah. Thecaidoffsred was a very ordinary one bat that seemed to cat no figure with the race-going folks, as was shown by the enormous crowd that was in attendance. It mnBt have numbsred fnlly 10,000 for there was not a vac in t seat in the grmlstand and the hotting ring was packed to suffocation. The afternoon was hot and sultry. Hardly a breath of air was astir, and as the track was lightning fast it was perfect weather for record breaking. Tbe class of horses carded to fatart, however, was not made up of recoid-breakets as a rule, and no new worlds time marks weie made. The track record, though, at three-quarters of a mile, which is l:12f, was equaled iby Our Gertie, who won in a cauier, ana could posssibly have run a half Eesond faster and ti-d the record had she been pushed out to the limit. A new treck record for one mile and a half was made by Harry Nutter. He went the distance in 2:33, which clips three full seconds off the old mark. The Our Gertie race and a stesplechase over tbe fall coarse ware tbe principal features, and both eveut6 brought forth hearty tokens of appreciation ftom the big half-holiday crowd. Our Gertie closed a elight favorite at 8 tD 5 over Bsnneville and May Beach, who wore each 2 to 1 and it is safe to say that it was the public money and not the "wise fish" that backed the Ally, as the knowing ones" to a man strung with Bonneville. The race was a veiy pretty one to look at. May Beach, Our Gertie and Bonneville got away together and the struggle was always between them. May Beach andBeoneville, racing like a team, stepped the first quarter in 23 seconds and the half in Hi eecouus. All this time Jenkins was rating Our Genie cleverly in behind. He knew, and so did eveiy one else that had any horse sense, that the pace was altogether too fast and neither of the two in front could possibly stand it to the j end. Neither of them did and when the stretch j was reached, both were in distiess. Jenkins then called on Our Gertie and the handsome daughter of Salvator Columbine responded like a lady and at the sixtetnth post had the race in hand. From there to the wire the filly eimply loafed and considering that she then ran in 1:121 it looks reasonable to state that, had she been askea to do her best, she would probably have set a new mark for the distance. Six started in the cross-country event, but mistakes and accidents were numerous and two only legitimately finished. They weie My Valentine and Chenier, but Clifton B. got third money,- as Porter remounted him after he fell and finished. Gypceiver was the first one of the lot to go wrt-ng. He ran out of the course at the thirteenth fence. The others took the fourteenth all ribht enough, but at the fifteenth audlnstis whee the tioable was. Here Princess Murphy refused and Boanerges and Clifton B. fell. This left My Valeutme and Chenier to fltsht it out, which they aid, and the former got the decision by two lengths. Bay rode the win-ner and he uaadled her to perf jciijn, winning a well-earned compliment for himself. The mile and a half race in which Harry Nutter took threa seconds fiom the track record was ruu fifth Plauta n was lavorito for the race snJ ld for Lerly a mile and a quar.er when he col apscd and stopped almost to a wain, bventUdUy fluiBhiug fuu.tu. Harry Nut-tor was giving away great lumps of weight to everything iu the race anu i.verett had the mount. The pair seem to underotand each other and together won a handsome race. Everett waitea until the fctrotch was reached before he made his move and then he stole a match on tbe other boys. For the fir3t time this year on local tracks two-year-olds were asked to go a mile. This was the distance of the lest race and Merito, conceding weight to all the others, won as she pleased. This filly went to the post a 3 to 5 favorite and she never gave her backers one second in which to worry. 8ho lay second to Clara Wooley to the stretch and then cantered by her as though she was tied. The first and third Were cheap selling races at three-quarters of a mile. Miss Stanton at 7 to 1 won one and Choesemite at 16 to 5 captured the other.
