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SPECTACULAR. FINISH1 ♦ Hi-Jack Wins Tenny Handicap by a Nose and in Fast Time. i fudge Schilling and Boojum Second and Third in Most Sensational Contest of Meeting. i NEW YORK, N. Y., May 25.— While the , Tenny Handicap at Belmont Park today was only an overnight race, it was one of interest in bringing back George D. Wideners Hi-Jack and C. V. Whitneys Boojum, a pair that had not been to the races for two years. And Hi-Jack was the winner after running a sensational six furlongs in 1:11. He only won by a nose over the seasoned Judge Schilling, from the stable of Rudolph Spreckels, and Boojum was a close third. There was another sprinter brought back in Joseph E. Wideners Osmand, but he had scant speed and was outrun all the way. Hi-Jack had not been to the races since the fall of 1929 at Laurel, while the last previous appearance of Boojum was in the Futurity of the same year, which went to his stablemate Whichone. Both were out of the racing as three-year-olds by reason of infirmities, but both have come back magnificently. This race alone made an important day of sport and there was a crowd of goodly proportions present, though the threatening weather did not make the day all together a pleasant one. EXTREMELY FAST FACE. The race run by Hi-Jack was truly a sensational one when McAtee sent him along at a killing pace from the start. Making all the pace, he ran the first quarter in :235, the half in :46Vf,, to finish out the six furlongs in 1:11. It was small wonder that he was tiring at the end to only win by a nose. Boojum raced second until well inside the final sixteenth, where Judge Schilling closed with a great rush to beat the Whitney four year-old half a length, while another stride would have landed him winner. Black Majesty, after racing fourth all the way, had that place at the end a length and a half away from Boojum. In the handicap Boojum was giving Hi-Jack seven pounds. He was in receipt of a pound from Osmand and Judge Schilling and Hi-Jack were equal on the scale, the six-year old carrying 120 to the 118 on Hi-Jack. It was a truly good contest and of great importance to see two such horses brought back to the races. The steeplechase, which was under selling conditions, saw three of the six that went to the post complete the course. It went to Thomas Hitchcocks St. Vernon, ably ridden by G. H. "Pete" Bostwick, the talented amateur. Edward R. Bradleys Banner Day finished second, with Mrs. Robert C. Win-mills Dancing Princess a distant third. SEVERAL MISHAPS. The accidents began early in the running When Rigan McKinney was unseated from his Nat Clyman, the most fancied in the field. He came to grief at the third fence. Then at the water, which followed, F. Ambrose Clarks Knocking Tom. made a bad landing and unseated R. B. Loung. The other mishap was when Omar Romar came down at the last fence with J. Garrett when he was fighting it out with the winner. This last fall was the only serious one of the lot, for the gelding rolled on his rider and Garrett suffered a seriously injured leg. Early in the action Omar Romar was taken out to show the way and he drew away into a long lead, while Banner Day and St. Vernon were rated along back of him. Dancing Princess had no speed and she quickly dropped far out of the running. The turf was slippery from the recent rain and the filly would not stride freely, while the others slipped about considerably. It was the slippery condition that was to blame for Nat Clyman making such a bad landing that Mr. McKinney was unseated and it also accounted for the mistake on Knocklong Tom. Going into the jumps at the lower end of the field, Mr. Bostwick shook off Banner — Continued on twenty-first page. ■ SPECTACULAR FINISH,, j V Continued from first page. Day with St. Vernon and, moving to within , " striking distance of Omar Romar, he rated the imported gelding along smoothly until f . nearing the final fence. There he moved 5 into command and it was when Garrett at- " £ tempted to go with him that Omar Romar made his mistake and came down. This left J r nothing to the contest and St. Vernon was 5 in hand to win by six lengths, while Dane- . ing Princess was third, back of Banner Day. Benjamin Blocks Morstone. under differ- 1 ent riding, just staggered home over the e s mile distance to win from W. M. Moores 3 ■ Danour, with Mrs. F. Ambrose Clarks Never r Fade in third place. The only other starter r was Manchonock, from the Belair Stud Sta- - t ble, and he was outrun all the way. f Frank Catrone was instructed to "wait" " with Morstone and the son of Morvich was s i not permitted to rush out into the long lead i 1 that has marked his other races. He waited A in front, but Bejshak was also waiting with * Danour and as a result the Block colt was s able to stick it out and be winner by a a matter of inches. Donaur had been going along under restraint s- back of Morstone and the running 5 suggested he had waited too long before going to the son of Morvich. When Bejshak ■ moved, Danour gained on the winner, but ■ Morstone finished stronger than was expected :" and for that reason it looked as s though an earlier challenge would have been n successful. Twenty-six two-year-olds of the plater •r variety started in the opening four and • a half furlongs race through the Widener course, and it resulted in an excellent finish *" when W. E. Worleys Galapan was winner J" over Mrs. F. Ambrose Clarks Landmark, *" while Ral Parrs The Nile beat My y Purchase for third. The placed horses were e on the outside at the post, and there was lS some confusion when The Nile came over :r from the outside in the early stages. Landward 1_ and Galapan came over with the filly. JJj and in that move Flaming Mamie suffered d somewhat, and Trombone was unlucky. f Royal Stone, from a slow beginning, was IS taken to the outside to find racing room m and finished gamely. George Conway, former trainer of the ie Glen Riddle Stable, was an arrival and will 11 stay for some time. He retired from racing lS due to ill health. George Clarke, owner of the Rosedale Stable, a" will leave for Toronto for an extended !X visit. «
