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WORTHS AUSPICIOUS OPENING The Worth Jockey Club had a fineday to make its initial bow to the Chicago race going public and the handsome new course entertained about 8000 enthusiastic lovors of the sport of kings kingsWorth Worth is certainly a handsome spot finely situated and its grandstand is a dream Every ¬ thing in connection with the now racing plant is firstclass and the big crowd that turned out was agreeably surprised at finding such pleas ¬ ant surroundings surroundingsWorth Worth has a staff of competent officials headed by secretary NathanEon with M N Mac farlan as presiding judge and Thomas Cbiv ington as his associate Dick Dwyer un ¬ doubtedly the prince of starters handles the flag and Ed Wagnor part owner of the track is the general manager managerClean Clean racing is Worths motto and the track is bound to be well supported as can easily be seen by the enormous crowd that was on hand yesterday yesterdayHorsemen Horsemen as well as the public were well pleased with the new track and such level ¬ headed ones as Pat Dunne Hardy Durham J D Hooe Charles Trevathan S B Woems and Pa Bradley were loud in their praises for the Worth appointments appointmentsThere There was an unusually large gathering of welldressed women in the stand and they were finely entertained by excellent music furnished by the Banks Cregier orchestra orchestraThe The racing proper on the opening day was firstclass in every respect and the 2000 handi ¬ cap was one of tho most open events ever carded on local tracks Secretary Nathanson must be complimented on the careful way in which he distributed tho weights and in the opening bet ¬ ting the ring was at a loss as to which horse to make favorite and when the market did finally settle it was 4 to 1 and take your pick against Robert Waddell Louisville Star Chamber and Poesart The latter on account of Dominick being in the saddle canght tho bulk of the backing and closed favorite at 13 to 5 Ho howover ran his race at the post and at tho finish was absolutely last Tho horse that won the star event and carried off the handsome floral horseshoe as well as the honors of the day was The Conqueror II This was somewhat of a Burprieo as Benny Vin ¬ cents handsome black son of Sir Dixon Re ¬ peat has been running poorly at Lakeside but tho speculators seemed well satisfied and chosred the winner long and loud from the fur ¬ long post home Coburn was the lucky jockey to have the mount on Tho Conqueror II and from end to end he made a runaway race of it itSecond Second to The Conqueror II was perhaps the best threeyearold now quartered on Chicago tracks Robert Waddell This game youngster was giving away great lumps of weight to all of the other starters had a bad rider in the saddle and was almost thrown passing the threequarter post still with all this Robert Waddell hung on like grim death and although defeated was conceded to bo the hero of the day dayBoney Boney Boy and Sovoy furnished the big crowd with a hairraising finish in the first race and when Boney Boys number was hung out fol ¬ lowers of Pa Bradleys horses made noiso enough to ba hoard for miles around Coburn rode Boney Boy and handled him to perfection perfectionNone None of tho other finishes was close with the exception of the last which was between Tro bor and Rhinelandcr the former with a green boy with a good head on his shoulders named Otis gaining a ncse victoryover Dominick DominickIn In the betting ring fourteen bookmakers had up their slates The list included Marcus Cart wright Dutch Pesch Barney Weller T H Shannon Eddio Austin who bookod for George Bennett Ed Bradley Wolf Levy Wild McGinty Jacobs Argo Hicks and Jamie son There were in addition two field books and a combination book
