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. , MEKNES GREATLY IMPROVED l ♦ Carries Phil Reuters Silks to Victory at Fairmount Park. *. Sonthern Kiss Wins Again, Taking Purso in Opening Race — Mac Fogle Outstays Jessie Carey. — — ♦ COLLINSVILLE, 111., June 12.— In the Clayton Handicap, which featured the racing offered by the Fairmount Jockey Club at Fairmount Park this afternoon, Phil Reuters silks were carried to victory by the suddenly improved seven-year-old racer Meknes, ridden by jockey H. Fisher. Meknes vanquished B. Haughtons Shasta Lad, Mrs. R. Pollards Prisoner, and the four other sprinters that started. After gradually moving into the lead approaching the first quarter mile post, Meknes then made every post a winning one, was always in the lead thereafter and sprinted the five and a half furlongs in the fast time of 1 :06%, but, after moving away into a three-lengths lead in the stretch, Meknes suddenly began tiring badly in the final sixteenth. Shasta Lad finished with a rush on the outside of the leader, and was rapidly overtaking the winner, and it was only by a head margin that Meknes succeeded in lasting to outfinish him for the purse. Shasta Lad rushed up from well back of the leaders in the stretch, racing easily, passing Prisoner and Patsy Jane and finished with such a strong rush that had the distance been slightly longer he would have been the winner. Prisoner raced in close pursuit of the pacemakers throughout, but was also tiring badly at the finish and was extremely lucky to outfinish Patsy Jane for third place. Prisoner ruled favorite, having much the most backing in the feature, while McTinkle was also a well-backed one. Prisoner failed badly, finding more than his match in the winner, and Shasta Lad and McTinkle raced poorly throughout and were never close to the leaders. Following the race a claim of foid against the winner was lodged by jockey D. Smith, who rode Shasta Lad, and the stewards summoned jockey H. Fisher into the stand for questioning, which resulted in the claim of foul being not allowed. B. B. Rices three-year-old Southern Kiss scored her second straight victory, taking the measure of the large band of sprinters that started over three-quarters mile in the initial race. Her success was scored at the expense of Marabou, which landed in second place, proving easily best of the others. H. G. Bed-wells Fair Lark, which suffered much ill luck in this event, ran a good race and after overcoming interference and having to race wide throughout came gamely in the final eighth, passing tiring horses quickly to get up at the end for third place. Clutter elected to set the early pace in the first half mile, but was never far in advance of Southern Kiss, she racing right in Clutters wake to the last turn. An eighth out Southern Kiss disposed of and passed Clutter into a safe lead, which the B. B. Rice filly then held to , the finish. Southern Kiss was the favorite, while Fair Lark, Lila G., and Lily Sue were well-played offenders. It was another large field that faced the barrier in the second race, in which a well matched band of two-year-old maidens I started over five-eighths. Mrs. L. M. Continued on twenty-fourth page. MEKNES GREATLY IMPROVED Continued from first page. Holmes Mac Fogle was the one to graduate into the winning class with a well deserved victory wrested in the final strides of a hard stretch drive in which he just managed to get up in the last few yards to head and vanquish the Oakland Stables Jessie Carey for the purse. Jessie Carey could not withstand the challenge of tha winner, but held second place safe from Eatonden. The latter, racing for the Three Ds Stock Farm Stable, made a fast finish and bested the early leader, Scarlet Brigade, to take the third end of the purse. Scarlet Brigade set the early pace, while Jessie Carey and Eatonden were forward factors. Scarlet Brigade tired suddenly in the stretch, and it was then that Jessie Carey moved into command. Mac Fogle was coming fast on the outside through the final f ighth, after having overcome much early interference and, finishing like a flash, Mac Fogle swept past Jessie Carey in the last few yards to win drawing clear. Eatonden was the favorite. J. B. Clohers colors were finally carried to another victory by the veteran racer, Post Dispatch, when he accounted for the third race, at one mile and a sixteenth. Post Dispatch was one of the outsiders, as was Thistle Glad, which finished in second place. Paige, another of the lightly backed ones, ran a good race, being prominent throughout and lasted to secure third money. Breast Plate was backed ino pronounced favoritism in this race, but he was outrun most of the way and his effort was poor and proved a big disappointment to the players, causing them considerable loss. Thistle Glad did most of the leading after they had gone the first half mile and she was still in the van until just a few yards out, where Post Dispatch, after getting through on the inside, finished with a strong challenge and, to Thistle Glads bearing out badly, enabled Post Dispatch to nose out the former for the purse in the final strides. After having landed a winner with Southern Kiss, which won the opening race, B. B. Rice then completed a double victory for the day when his good four-year-old plater Poly-gamia raced with much success to score .another win in the fourth race. Polygamia sprinted over three-quarters mile in the fast time of 1 :1X% to land four lengths in advance of B. S. Cutlers Be Still to annex this purse. Be Still raced gamely and was hard pressed to the end, finally getting the better of T. Davis in the last few yards to take scond plr.ee, I. Davis finishing third. Theresa Joan was prominent in the first quarter mile and then dropped out of it. Polygamia was given a good ride by jockey A. Tiner and, after racing close up to the stretch turn, went to the outside of the leaders with a rush and, getting to the front easily, won as her rider pleased.
