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DONE 41 HAWTHOME. The last days sport for Hawthornes season cf 101 pr EEcd off with eclat, the splendid card of seven raceB drawing ont en immense crowd that tested both tiers of the grand stand to their capacity. This last two weeks meeting at th pretty Stickney coarse has been very sue-cessfnl in every particular, the attendance being fulj up to that of midsummer days. The cards presented by Secretary Sheridan Clark have been excellent throughout and no batter sport has been witnessed anywhere. Yesterdays Bet of seven races was np to the beat standard and was replete with good racing. The star attraction of the day was the Speculation Stakes, a handicap sweepstakes for three-year-olds end upward at one and one-eighth miles with ,0C0 added. The value of the stake to the winner was ,C80. Fink Coat on his clever Ehowing of September 20, when he appeared to be rounding back to his midsummer form, was made an odds on favorite. Argregor was ruehed to the front at flag fall but had i.ot gone far before Pink Coat joined him. They ran lapped Jor six fnrlones where Coburn suddenly stole a length on Pink Coat, an advantage which he maintain! d to the end. Pink Coat tried to close on Argregor in the last eighth but Coburn would not be denied and held his monDt clear, to the line. He won by a length whilo Pink Coat beat Btar Chamber two lengths for second place. The latter was easily outrun from start to finish and. was palpably outclassed. The steeplechase over the Bhort course proved to be 8n eat j sffair for Flaccus, which showed be was too much fcr Ccrrilloet tho difference in the weights. The latter held a comfortable lead until just aitei passing beyond the sixth jump vl ere flaccus was urged into the van and althctgh Corrillo appeared dangerous several times tbnetfter the feimer wstnever headed, winnicg eseily by five lengths, while Corrillo finisleo fifteen in front cf tbe spent Captain Concver. Corrillo totk the jnmrs a shade lower than usutl ard ctme near stumbling several times. Captain Conover appears to have staled a little. Little John fell over the first , jump. Money Muss got off with a foil running start in the fifth race, a sprint affair of six furlongs, and mt lii g tLelbi si cf this early advantage he sittplj EtcotLertd bis field with speed, never bjiEghetded thereafter. He won well in hand by a leigth from W. J. Deboe, which came with a rush fct the end and beat out The Pride a ltLgth fcr second place. His race was a surprisingly geed one, as he had not started in seme time. Mssgie Davis ran her usual holiest reco. Toah was the victim of a weak . ride tnd kbb rocketed badly up to the head of the stretch. Headwater ran nowhere near his true foim. The two-year-olds bad the first race, a dash of six aid a half furlorgs for all ages, between them, fiuzzth won by three-quarters of a length ficm Bragg, which finished six in front of.Pjrrbo for second place. Little Jack Horner, which has not started hereabout for some time, started out as if be was going to make a runaway flair cf the race, leading by a fair margin up to the head of the stretch, where lie began to prop badly and fell away beaten. Huczab then took np the running and remained in front to the end. Bragg ran away over a quarter of a mile to a false break or else he might have won, as he held on clear up to laBt fifty yards and altogether ran a good race. Scce ran a disappointing race and is capable of a far better showing. MeChesney proved by his victory in the third raee, a dash once around the ring for two-year-olds, that he is probably the best of his again the west at present over a distance of ground. He waB conceding weight to everything in tbe race yet he came away with a rush when called upon in the last eighth and won in hollow fashion by two lengths from Lucien Appleby which beat Mollie T. tbe same dietance for second place. Lucien Appleby closed up fast after bending for home but bad no chance to beat the winner. Mollie T.s effort was an excellent one as it was generally supposed she could not negotiate tbe distance. Tommy Foster ran nowhere near his true form and his race should be thrown out in future calculations. There was a strong tip out on Wild Oats but he could not run a little bit at any part of the journey. The two-mile race that Kentucky Babe ran third in on September 23 appeared not to have hurt her any, as she put up one of the beet races of her career in the sixth event, a one and one-sixteenth miles dash for three year-olds and upward. Monos set out to show the way, leading by a fair margin for six furlonge, where he resigned in favor of Kentucky Babe. Miss Soak ran lapped on tbe latter up to the last eighth post, where Kentucky Bftba.drew.away . and won rather handily by a half length, while Miss Soak just lastf d long enough to hold second place from the fast-closing Ben Chance by a neck. Monos had enough when the rub came. Fantasy finished .fast and strongly. George Arnold had little trouble in beating Cambrian in tbe last race of the season at the Hawthorne track,a dash of a mile and fifty yardB. Cambrian ran lapped on him to the head of the stretch where Winkfleld called on George Arnold and he came away without much trouble winning by a length Cambrian was under heavy punishment all through the last eighth. He beat Flying Torpedo three lengths for second place. The latter was sadly outclassed and thus ended the season at the Etickn y courso, which haB probably been the most successful in its history.
