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SAM PHILLIPS SHERIDAN. Oyer twenty thousand holiday pleasure seekers sweltered and howled themselves hoarse at Washington Park yesterday. The afternoon was one of the warmest of the season up to date, and the racing was of the sort that would make the coldest race-track regular warm up with enthusiasm. The regular Fourth of July attraction was the Sheridan Stakes, at a mile and a quarter, for three-year-olds, and. although but three colts started, the race furnished one of the most interesting contests ever decided over the Washington Park track. The three that faced the starter were: Sam Phillips, 127 pounds; Advance Guard, 125. and Sidney Lucas. 129. This was Sidney Lucas" second appearance in a race during the afternoon, he having previously won a three-year-old condition race at one mile. But, nevertheless, the holiday public backed him and backed him strongly to beat Sam Phillips and Advance Guard in the Sheridan, and the reception he got when he and Cay-wood paraded on their way to the post was a royal one. Advance Guard had beaten Sam Phillips twice before inside of a week, and as the Schorr colt was asked to trive his conqueror two pounds it hardly seemed that he had a chance of winning. Consequently. Advance Guard had the call in the betting at 4 to 5. That the son of Great Tom — Nellie Van was the best, considering that Sidney Lucas had already raced once before, was a certainty, and that Sam Phillips" win was ■ fiuke was evident to all those who were fortunate enough to witness the contest. Vititoe rode Advnnce Guard and to him must be charged the colt"s defeat. There was no fast pace set in the race and Vititoe, in his effort to restrain his colt while going the first mile in 1:47. choaked him into subjection, and then when Burns with Sam Phillips made his bid in the stretch Vititoe seemed to lose his head, and on a colt that was far the best he managed to get beaten by three-quarters of a length. Sidney Lucas on the inside close to the rail came with a winning rush in the last sixteenth, after stopping once, and was only beaten a head by Advance Guard. Sidney Lucas challenge at the end was what pleased the crowd and when he came back to the stand he was given a warmer reception than was the winner. It does not seem hardly right that a good, game colt like Sidney Lucas should be abused in the way he was yesterday. One race a day should be enough for a three-year-old, or in fact any horse, and the Messrs. Thompson were severely criticised on all sides for starting their colt the second time. As is getting to be the rule the handicap furnished a hair-raising finish that fairly set the crowd wild. The handicap was at nine furlongs and from the sixteenth post home it was anyoue6 race. First Boney Boys nose would be in front, then The Ladys, then The Electors, and the trio, each fully extended, flashed by the judges so close together that it was almost impossible to tell which horse won. The Lady, however, is well liked by the public, and when her number was hung out the decision met with approval. Master J. Martiu rode the winner, and he displayed great gameuess in squeeziug through a tight hole in the stretch, otherwise The Lady would have been third. Espionage turned the tables on Moroni in the sixth event in a decisive way. Tuesday Espionage was favorite and Moroni 2 to 1 and Moroni won rather handily, but yesterday it was vice versa and this naturally gave the -caudal mongers something to talk about. Hernando, long overdue and at the long odds CONTINUED ON SECOND PAOE. SAM PHILLIPS- SHERIDAN. Continued from First Page. | of 10 to 1. ran a high-class race in the first event and after luckily getting through at the head of the stretch beat Sculptress by a nock. Schoolmaster, the even-money favorite, landed third. Lake Mills, with Boland up, captured the long end of the purse in the third race. The colt was 4 to 1 in the betting, and coming through the stretch like a steam engine he scored easily by three lengths. It was 2: to 1 and take your pick at post time between Onomastus, Rollins and Minyon in the last race and they finished, one, two, three, as named. Jockey Charley Vandusen lost a lens out of his field glasses, and will give a liberal reward to the finder of the same.
