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JOLLY ROGERS STAKE. Fully 15.000 people were at Hawthorne Saturday to bid the handsome Cicero course adieu for two weeks and cheered themselves hoarse over Jolly Rogers impressive win of The Northern Stakes. The ssake was for three-year-olds and upward at one mile and a quarter and had only five starters, but only two. Jolly Roger and Milwaukee, seemed to have a chance in the eyes of the public and they were heavily backed at 8 to 5 and 7 to a respectively. The race was run to suit Jolly Roger inasmuch as there was no fast early pace and he could lay-within striking distance of the leaders in the first part of the route without being hustled. While the way the race was run was beneficial to Jolly Roger it was a handicap to Milwaukee who is a speedy horse and was obliged to force the pace himself. This naturally told on him when the real racing began in the stretch and when Jolly Roger moved up to Milwaukee the latter had nothing left to finish with consequently Tuckers Order— Happy Sally II. colt won rather handily making it three straight victories for jockey Winkfleld. The owners Handicap furnished a rousing finish. Alcedo with Tally up beating The Lady and W . Waldo by a nose in the very last stride. Tally and W. Waldo arc both 75-pounders but thev rode like veterans, neither getting rattled, and both being of as much assistance to their horses as could well be expected. An unsatisfactory incident happened in this race. Norford with Jed Waldo up was struck by one of the assistant starters with the whip on his way to the post and this caused him to run away. The colt went a mile and was pulled up. but in a false break he went away again at top speed and ran two miles more before he could be stopped. This naturally ruined his chances and the starter left him at the poet which was the only humane thing to do. The time, 1 :38, in this race, makes a new track record. Speculation on the initial five and a half furlongs dash was extremely lively, Pat Dunnes Searcher closing favorite at 3 to 1. with the Zuehlke entry. Princess Tatyana, and Possart next in demand at lOto 5. Rio de Altar acted badly and delayed the start about eight minutes, but when Mr. Holtman eventually gave the word the field was closely bunched with Princess Tatyana in front and she certainly set a terrific pace, going to the quarter in 22i seconds and to the half in 48i. After this the pace slowed and in the stretch there was a general closing up and from the eighth post home there was considerable action Searcher, with Wink-field up. coming from behind and getting the verdict by three-quarters of a length. The Princess WM second, Kohuwreath third, and Bonnie Lissak fourth lapped on one another. Bangle, now being trained by Pat Dunne, teems to be in his best form and in the second event won his third consecutive race within ten days. He was a 6 to 5 chance over a fair lot of sprinter, and. witli Winkfleld up, he was heavily backed at that price. Bangle broke fourth and was badly outrun while going down 1 he backstretch. and passing the half mile post he was last, but W iukfield began to work his way to the front on the far turn and when headed for home he was in second place, The Inkiiow n being a length and a half iu front. At the eighth post, however. The Unknown gave it up and for an instant Bangle seemed to have everything his own way, but out of the bunch came Tutliill with a rush, and hanging on gamely in the closing drive, ran Bangle to a head. Bangle is a sulker and in the last twenty-yards pinned his ears back and showed a bit of his bad temper. The steeplechase, as -teeplechases always do. furnished no end of excitement for the big crowd. There were several falls, none of which resulted seriously, and the decision was in doubt until the very end. The first one to go wrong was Minor D., who bolted at the second fence, then Frond, who was about twenty lengths in front of her, field, tripped and fell at the ninth fence. Frond was running well in hand when she fell, and would undoubtedly have won but for the accident. At the next jump from where Frond went down Manchie took a header, and this left the race between Passe Partout, Becky Rolfe and Viking, and they finished in the order named. Passe Partout winning rather easily, while Becky Rolfe only nosed Viking out for second place. Casey, on the latter, was careless and perhaps threw second money away. At any rate the judges took this version of the case and suspended Casey indefinitely. There was a bunch of bad actors in the sixth race, which Lady Britannic won in a drive from Plantain and Maryland Reserve. Lady Britannic broke up one good start, but got away fully in her stride and was never further back than fourth. The once famous race bore*. Macy, ridden by the once famous jockey. Bergen, won the last race by a nose after a terrific drive all through the stretch. Macy beat Mitten, who at one time was ten lengths in front of her field.
