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IMPRESSIVE VICTORY ♦ Consistent Maliy Jane Wins the Spring Valley Purse. Pitchfork, Estin and Pani Roma Are Noses Apart at End of Third Race. ♦ LATOXI A, Ky.. June 2,".— The racing silks of J. O. Milam wore carried to impressive victory by the Kentucky sportsmans consistent Wally Jane in the Spring .rove Avenue Purse, ■which featured this afternoons rather ordinary -program. The victress was well ridden by F_. lVnliam and her closest attendants at the finish were Fairy Lore and the recently acquired Hag Time. They were second and third in the order named, while nine others followed the placed three across the finish. It was Rag Time that had sufficient speed to outrun the winner over the back stretch and around the turns. After Mally Jane was well straightened out for the stretch run. Benham urged her into a good lead, then took her under stout restraint as she raced over the concluding sixteenth of a mile. Hers was a handy victory, while Fairy Lore had to work her way forward steadily, and in the final half mile accounted for second place. The three-quarters were negotiated by the! ] winner in 1:12%, but she could have done somewhat better with keen opposition the last quarter of a mile. She was the most favored with Musician, which ran a dull race, Second choice. .OOIU.Y CROWD JRF.SENT. Todays patronage compared favorably •with the largest week day throng of the j current meeting. The sport opened with a well deserved triumph of Frances Victoria, which had to be much the best to race from far back in the last half mile and hold Black Crackle safe in a hard drive that ensued as they finished tin- one and one-eighth miles. Repeater, one which displayed a measure of his best speed from the start, tired in the stretch to be third. Henry Sommers. two-year-old son of Tea Caddy and S. renata and making his first start, gave evidence of high class when he decisively defeated eleven other maiden youngsters by racing the five-eighths of the second race in l:00-,. He sprinted into the lead with the start and drew away to lead Sophronia Fair, the favorite, by eight lengths at the finish. Kathe was third two lengths behind the choice. Pitchfork, Fslin and Pani Roma finished noses apart in the order named at the end of the three-quarters of the third race for which Queen Clara was the odds-on favorite. The latter was eliminated through one of the poorest rides seen here during the meeting, jockey C. Yates keeping the Milam filly in tight quarters all through the stretch Continued on twentieth i n£e. IMPRESSIVE VICTORY Continued from firrt page while the others went on to share the prize three lengths in front of her. The winner raced with fine speed and a change in racing equipment seemed to aid him as he was fighting back gaittcly right down to the end While in previous races he quit suddenly when collared. The start was marred by the failure of Hiaiiella to leave with the others. Ten maiden three-year-olds and older Were out for the fourth offering over a distance of one mile and seventy yards. The three-year-old Joe Rudolph was successful in the slow time of 1 : 1 5 4. f. . the winner scoring by a :.hort margin from Kid B x ts With the favorite Imperial Eagle third. The race was marked by much rough riding. With several of the performing pilots guilty Of disregarding the code. The sixth race added another close finish when H. IV Oardners Sixteen Sixty, Cousin I.uto and Wood Nymph reached the finish Within one length. Sixteen Sixty, after leading from the outset, was rapidly giving way as Cousin I. ute rushed up to snatch second place from Wood Nymph a few strides before the finish. *
