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EAST BOWS TO WEST ♦ Western-Owned Reputation Wins Over Eastern False Face. • Buster Outlasts Dustabout in Close Finish — Brother John Makes Amends. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 22.— The meeting of the western-owned Reputation and the eastern-owned False Face attracted the principal interest at Churchill Downs this afternoon. It resulted in triumph for Reputation in easy fashion, the surprise of the race being furnished by False Faces inability to secure second place or to make a better showing. Still, there was some excuse for the colt not running to his best form. At the start he lunged and continued going with ! ! a stumbling stride until nearing the first turn, where he was suddenly forced to shorten his stride when Reputation and Seths Treasure, on the outside of him, came over. Reputation, with a clear course and well in motion at this stage, moved into a good : lead, followed by Seths Treasure, with False j 1 Face making a determined effort to overcome i ] the lost ground. The pair, however, had | got too far ahead of him and the best he j j could do was to land in third place. Reputation i won handily enough and it was the : general opinion that he would have beaten j False Face even if the latter had not suffered j I from the slow beginning. False Face, how- J I ever, would have been second but for his mishap. IDEAL WEATHER PREVAILS. ! Ideal weather and an improving track I made the racing enjoyable this afternoon. I | In some instances good time was recorded in spite of the going being dull. The attendance was again of generous proportions, with marked activity in the ring. Jefferson Livingstons Buster accounted for the three-quarters purse in which he met some good ones and his margin of victory was of the closest sort. Dustabout was pressing him hard at the finish and Alice Blue j j Gown finished in third place. At one stage during the stretch racing it j j appeared that Buster would win command- ingly, but just when his backers were jubi- I lant, the colt suddenly took a tired swerve as a result of Garner applying the whip, . Dustabout and Alice Blue Gown gained j I rapidly when Buster swerved and the trio j I crossed the finish heads apart strung across the track. I ! The early running was dominated by the newcomer to these parts. Leopardess. She displayed a high order of speed, but was unable to shake off Will Land until the stretch was reached. It was at this stage ; that Buster moved into the lead and ap- peared an easy winner until he swerved, j j Alice Blue Gown was possibly the best in ■ the race, but she began slowly and was kepf I I ! far out of it for the first half mile. Had , she stayed close to the inner rail instead of racing wide in the stretch she would have won anyway. The public began well when they centered on Modna in the opener and she won after a mild drive to outstay Westwood. The latter at one stage of the race appeared the winner, but the last eighth found him weakening fast and Modna moved by him with ease. OLD SWAT RACES WELL. Widgeon, coming with a rush after a slow beginning, outstayed the others for third place. The veteran Sway showed a capital performance and came from far back in the last quarter to finish in fourth place. Miss Mazie also showed good enough form to warrant the prediction that she will win soon. The mile was run in 1 :40 with the earlier part of the journey on the straightaway at a regular racing clip. Hubb and Iudd carried the colors of James P. Headley and, ridden by Garner, was returned the winner in the Maiden juvenile race. Bad Luck under hard riding got up I to outstay Captain Schneller for second place. The inevitable crowding in youngster races where the fields are of any size was i again in evidence, most of the starters being in a tangle at the first turn. The winner escaped the interference and taking command at the stretch turn held the others safe. Bad Luck suffered some, but managed to recover fast and saving ground in the stretch finished fast. Captain Schneller at one stage of the race looked as if he might win, but he gave way steadily in the last sixteenth. Parisian Muid, which was given considerable betting consideration, was knocked out of it at the first turn and was not perserve-red with thereafter. Brother John, which, in his two previous starts was made favcrite. raced in improved fashion and won by a small margin in the third race, defeating Repeater, with Bye Bye in third place. Brother John showed good speed and took command soon after the start, but lie began tiring in the last eighth and Repeater, coming fast, barely missed the j : J Continued on sixteenth i agej | i , EAST BOWS TO WEST I Continued from first page. victory. Bye Bye was ridden by P. Cogan. | j It was his first mount and he gave some promise. The filly raced forwardly from the , j start, but began tiring in the last eighth, j Lierre, one of the choices, showed a dull performance under a bad irde and send-off. Gallaher Brothers were much in evidence i during the afternoon. Glyn and King Tut their representatives, accounted for the final ! ! two races. King Tuts performance was particularly impressive and it might be that he , I | j is much better than supposed. He has won in his two last starts. He was away poorly in his race this afternoon, but moved up resolutely, and responding to hard urging in 1 the stretch got up in the last stride to down I Post Dispatch. The latter beat Mistress : Mary for third place. Glyns victory was achieved much easier. She wore down the leaders in the last eighth and beat home E. B. McLeans Floating On, with the favorite, Auntie May, in third place. a
