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HAWTHORNES FINALE Princess Doreen Wins Labor Day Handicap in Fast Time. Surf Riders Record-Breaking Performance Gives Audley Farm Stable Double Victory. HAWTHORNE RACE TRACK, Sept 1. The Audley Farm Stables good three-year-old filly Princess Doreen, carrying 119 pounds and conceding much weight to the best that could be mustered here to start in the Labor Day Handicap, of ,000 added, at a mile and a quarter, won with consummate ease in a big romp as her rider pleased in the excellent time of 2:01 for the mile and a quarter, which is one-fifth second slower than the track record. Laveen, another three-year-old filly but in receipt of ten pounds from the winner, finished in second place and Prince Til Til just lasted to beat ictoire for third place. Seven started including Cannon Shot, Tangerine and Belphrizonia. Princess Doreen took command immediately after the start and it was just a question of by how far her rider would let her -win. Cannon Shot and Belphrizonia f ol- lowed her closest in the early stages with Laveen in last place. The final quarter found the closest pursuers tiring fast and Iaveen making a strong bid. It was an unavailing one as far as the winner was concerned for she only cantered near the end. The Audley Farm Stable was much in the limelight for in addition to annexing the principal race Surf Rider showed a record-breaking performance in the secondary feature and Pegasus another Audley Farm representative only missed victory in the fifth race by a matter of inches, Pricemaker beating him home. MEETING BIG SUCCESS. The curtain was rung down on Hawthornes racing this afternoon. It had lasted for fifty-two days. It was a successful meeting in every respect. Financially it exceeded the expectations of the management The attendance has been of generous proportions on week days and reached record numbers on holidays and Saturdays. The sport has been wholesome and highly satisfying to Chicago -ans. The Hawthorne management established itself in the confidence of the racegoers and is firmly entrenched in the publics opinion for future meetings. The betting was on the eastern track order and in the latter half of the meeting, operations were smooth and frictionless. There was a desire to keep within the lines prescribed by the betting method, but an occasional arrest occurred when some one attempted otherwise. The system will be more clarified, it is expected, before the next meeting is held. There will be a general exodus of owners with their horses from Hawthorne beginning Tuesday. A goodly number will send their representatives to Aurora for the twenty-five-day meeting which begins there next Saturday. The better racers that took part in the Hawthorne meeting will go to Kentucky and race at the fall meetings there beginning at Latonia September 13. The closing day brought out an attendance that equaled the best that has been seen at the course this year. It was an enthusiastic crowd and included many first time visitors. The club house and reserved sections held a particularly representative gathering. They displayed a marked interest in the sport DIAMOND TIN TOR RIDER. The Charles Levy Circulation Company Handicap, which served as a secondary feature to the Labor Day Handicap, was of equal interest to the big crowd as the head-liner, for it was virtually a duel between Surf Rider and Bill OFlynn. There was little to choose between them in a betting way and both came in for extensive support. Bill OFlynn displaced Go Foin in a flash after the start and led Surf Rider in the first quarter by two lengths. The same order was maintained until the stretch was reached where Stutts gradually brought Surf Rider up to ultimately pass Bill OFlynn in the last sixtenth amidst a racket that was almost deafening. After the finish jockey Stutts was presented with a handsome diamond scarfpin by Miss Annenberg, while Mrs. Charles Levy besowed a massive bouquet of roses on the same jockey. It required Surf Rider to reduce the former track record of 1:05 by one-fifth second to achieve his success. Oh Susanna duplicated her easy success of Saturday and won in a big romp over those she met in the opening race. Bear Shot finished in second place and Dutch Girl retained third place. The winner was an over- Continucd on fifteenth page. HAWTHORNES FINALE Continued from first page. whelming favorite and was in command from the start. An oversight on the part of her trainer, who failed to note that by her Saturdays victory she incurred a five pound penalty, cost her the purse, though it in no wise affected the betting. It was irony that she should have carried two pounds overweight, which was one pound less than her weight should have been. She would have won. had her weight been much more. Sakali, racing in improved form, was the victor of the final dash. He raced in game style and held on determinedly to outstay the hard-fighting Taylor Hay which disputed every stride, of the final eighth. Elias O., under a good ride, succeeded in getting up for third place. Battle Shot, in this number, was claimed for ,000 by J. H. Connors. The second race was a spirited One with Eelman the victor by a short half length over GlentilL The pair fought it out strenuously in the last sixteenth. The notional Ramkin finished in third place. On protest of International Stable Oh Susanna, winner of the first race was disquali-field on the ground that she was not entitled to the three pounds claimed for her. Disqualification did not affect the betting.
