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I I BEN MARSHALL VICTORIOUS » Favorite First in Ed wards ville Purse at Fairmount Park. ♦ Ulnnlu Second and Hypoluxo Third— Focns and Frightful Among Surprise Winners — Conditions Change. ■ COLLINS VILLE, 111., June 7.— Three-year-olds which have never won a sweepstakes performed in the feature attraction at Fair-mount Park this afternoon, the Edwardsville Purse, and Mrs. D. L. Keiffers Ben Marshall made good with a vengeance, being an easy winner, taking the measure of Mrs. R. Pollards Uluniu, W. F. Bentons Hypoluxo and the five others which started, including J. C. Milams entry of Knight Commander and Scarlet Brigade. Ben Marshall was ridden to his sparkling victory by jockey T. Burns and was the prevailing favorite in the select and shifty field which vied for honors in this race. From a good start Ben Marshall sprinted away on the back stretch into a lengthy lead and, as they reached the half mile post, increased his advantage to six lengths, outrunning all of his rivals. Scarlet Brigade and Knight Commander were the ones which raced in closest pursuit of the leader until the stretch turn was reached. With Ben Marshall continuing along gamely and showing no signs of tiring, Burns took him under restraint in the stretch, but still retained a long lead and at the end with much in reserve. There was a change in track conditions today, the heavy downpour Thursday night drenching the course and bringing about heavy going for todays racing. The weather was good and there was another large crowd on hand to witness the sport. Favorites were defeated with regularity in most of the races. B. B. Rices two-year-old filly Angel Bright was winner of the initial race, a dash of five furlongs for juveniles. Angel Bright won her third consecutive purse in three starts here, keeping a clean slate for the meeting. Gotta Gonow, wrhich set the early pace, weakened in the final few yards and was unable to withstand the final challenge of the winner, but saved second place. The favorite was Lady Emblem, which annexed third place after racing in that position from the start. She was hard ridden and raced close up on the inside to the stretch, but failed when called upon and was lucky to outfinish Associate. Angel Bright gradually gained on the leading Gotta Gonow during the first half mile and then, coming with a rush on the outside of the leader in the later stages, got up to win by a neck. The overthrow of the favorites continued in the second race when the well backed Sergeant Seth failed to gain any portion of the purse, the winner coming from an unexpected quarter when E. Medians Focus took the honors. Blue Blood, another of the choices, raced fairly well to be second at the finish, while the outsider, Black Nan, landed in third place. Perfect Model, Bobby Basil and Sergeant Seth followed heads apart, all three tiring after racing prominently to the final eighth. The hard final drive proved too much for them, however, and Focus was drawing away from his opponents at *he end. A good band of sprinters started in the fourth race and there was another big sur-sprise in the victory of the overlooked Senator Seth. The P. O. Anderson racer defeated Flying Torch, which was the one to race to second place, while Harass landed in third place. Bourbon finished fast in fourth place. Taking kindly to the heavy going. Senator Seth moved into the lead after passing Runaway Princess in the first quarter and, continuing gamely under a good ride, held Harass and Flying Torch safe, to make every post a winning one. Harass was closest in pursuit of the leader while racing close up on the outside, but in the stretch was ridden in the worst part of the track, tiring badly in the final drive and enabling the fast finishing Flying Torch to outfinish him for sec-end place. Caroler was the favorite, but was exceedingly unfortunate at the start, being badly pinched off when the start came and Caroler was left at the post.
