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GEORGE LEGS GOOD RICE. It was a bright, clear afternoon Saturday and on this acconnt, as well as the fact that a good -card was offered, there was an exceptionally big crowd at Lakeside. Naturally the track was muddy and sloppy, but despite this the racing was good and full of interest. Daring the day but two favorites survived, still the speculators saemad well satisfied on their return trip, for, on several different occasions they caught the ring out of line, the prices on Maud Wallace, 12 to 1, and George Xee, 4 to 1, for instance. The3e horses have shown recently to be in fine form and are also mudlarks of high degree. Glo3e observers -took liberal advantage of such prices. The ring at Lakeside up to date is said to be soma 0,033 loser, ao.1 if sack poor judgment prevails in laying prices as has existed during -the first week of tha meating it is safe to say that the ring will lose a fortuae before the fifteen days are over. Perhaps one of the most sensational races witnessed around Chicago this snmmsr was won "by George Lie in the last event. This mud-loving son of Sr. George Levee snatched a pursa out of tha fire that lookad, at the half mile past, to ba barnei to a crisp. The race spoken of was at a mile, and for some unknown reason George Lee in the opening betting was quoted at 5 to 1, but before post time he was backed down a point. Winkfleld was on George Lee and although he was asleep at the post and, foolishly took -the inside all the way, luck was with him . Lee -was never a fast beginner and being near the nside at the start he web badly interfered with on the first turn, being ran into a pocket and having to pall up. At the three-quarter pole he was last and at the half-mile grou nd he -was last bat two. Then he bsgan to move up, and by a streak of good luck managed to get through on the far turn, but the leaders were bo far in front of him then that it seemed impossible for him to catch them. Tha gelding, iowever, proved game and able to stand punishment, and at the sixteenth post he was second and within two length of Fat Garrett, the leader. From there home his backers counted the strides and measured the distance from the leader to the wire, for as fast as Lee was coming it was evident that if the finishing point was far enough away he wai sare to beat Pa t Garrett. At the jockey board George Lee was lapped on Pat Garrett, and then with one grand effort he flashed by him like a shot, and amid .great excitement the judges hung out number one. OGounell nude May Beach and also a lot of selling platers like Dnty, Little Reggie and Loyal Prince look cheaper than they really are by winning the third race in a common canter. Mitchell rode May Baacb and she had five pounds less weight than she had when she laBt parformed, but the handsome daughter of Bobby Beach Faithless plainly showed that she did not like mnd and finished far back with .a common lot of selling platers. OConnell was a 1 to 2 chance and that was a royal price. That Maud Wallace liks3 to go a route and also revels in the mud was demonstrated in the fourth race, which was at a mile and a sixteenth. This filly rated in bahiud old Hugh Penny to the bead of the stretch, and then galloped over the ancient son of Luke Blackburn Maud Ward at her leisure, winning as ehe pleased. Uarda, after a long let-up, cams out fresh and .ood in the initial mile and a sixteenth dash, and at 7 to 1 staggered home in front of Donna Hita and Elidad. The latter was practically left at the post and ran a grand race. Emma M. was a wild horse in the second race and with 115 pounds ud she surprised every one by beating Avenstoke and Lady Gurzon. This filly has been raced most inconsistently and the officials could well afford to interview her owner. From him there is a bare possibility that something might be learned. "Dick" Borne was presented with Isabay by "Bob" Tucker during the summer and in the fifth race Borne got his winter money as Isabey beat a bad lot like breaking sticks. To show that Borne has the right system "he is all out" and did not have a dollar to bet but his horse was sent after the purse just the same. An odd thing happened in the third race. OConnell, the 1 to 2 favorite, broke some of his trappings at the post and was cantered back to the paddock to have them fixed. Judge Hamilton allowed the horse to stay in the paddcck over ten minutes without a judicial eye being on him. This may have been all right but nevertheless it set the scandal-monger to going, but after OConnell won so easily there was nothing doing in the gossip line. E. Scherrer, who rode Little Reggie in the OConnell race, is a promising lightweight. Little Reggie was a 100 to 1 chance but was well backed to show, and Scherrer landed her in third place in a clever way.
