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FAVORITE DISAPPOINTS ♦ Sweep All, Odds-On Choice, Finishes Third in Feature. 1 £ ittsburgher Furnishes Surprise by Winning Jackson Park Purse — Sunny Lassie Second. ♦ ♦ HOMEWOOD, 111., June 2.— Six American Derby candidates raced in the Jackson Park Purse, best race on the Washington Park program today, and Pittsburgher, the Shady Brook Stables good son of In Memoriam •— Wistaria, furnished a surprise when he defeated the band, which included Sweep All. the odds-on choice. The best that the Dixiana colt could do was finish third, gunny Lassie taking second place. Pittsburgher. well ridden by jockey C. Corbett. scored impressively. Racing under slight restraint while Sweep All was Setting the early pace, he moved up to challenge the Dixiana colt as they entered the stretch and, after taking a good lead, loafed felightly but managed to last to win by a half length. Sunny Lassie was the real star of the contest and on the strength of per performance will undoubtedly have a large following in the Oaks. Running as if she favored a distance, she came fast in the final quarter to outgame Sweep All and cause Pittsburgher to be ridden out to retain his advantage. As for Sweep All, jie ran below his best form. Jockey Pool rushed him into the lead early and, racing Steadily, he had a good advantage until the final turn was reached, but when put to a drive he failed to respond as expected. The other starters. Scotlands Glory, Morpheus and Chief John, were never dangerous. SWEEP ALL WELL BACKED. Sweep All was well backed, and his race a great disappointment to the majority Ivas n attendance who had figured that he was the best of his age on the grounds. Because pf the amount of money bet on the favorite. Pittsburgher, the second choice, paid .84» The time of 1:43*5 for the mile and seventy Jrards was considered ordinary. The attendance was in keeping with the Usual week-day average, and the track proper Was greatly improved. Although the skies Were a trifle overcast during the later races, the weather was pleasant enough for comfort. The highly regarded filly Gala Flight, which was purchased at the Saratoga sales by Griffin Watkins for 0,000, made her first journey to the barrier in the opening race today and failed to finish in the money. Favored in the wagering and ridden by jockey L. McDermott, she could not seem to find her stride and was badly outrun from Start to finish, ending in fifth place. Princess Camelia, Chicago owned, was the winner, with the speedy Jalie runner-up and Usual Time, an outsider, third. Jalie set the pace, with Princess Camelia never far away and the latter proved best in the stretch run. The race was at five furlongs and a field of six two-year-olds competed. Jockey E. James rode the winner. STIRRING STRETCH DUEL. Luck Carter and Dick Porter gave the crowd a thrill when they staged a stirring finish in the second race. Lucky Carter received the verdict, but the decision was in doubt until the official numbers were displayed. It was unfortunate that Dick Porter should have been beaten, as he was much the best and ran a gallant race. Away Slowly when jockey Meade was caught napping, he was forced to overcome interference to reach a contending position and closed a big gap in the stretch only to miss by inches. Scapegoat, a Greentree Stable gelding, opened up a long lead in the early stages but was evidently short and tired badly to finish tnird. The winner was always close up and got to the lead in the Stretch. A field of twelve started. Sprinting next to the rail with a fine burst of speed, Laura Negley, well backed, won the third race from a large field. The filly was ridden by M. Rose and raced close to the leaders in the early running to outgame them in the stretch. Brown Hills, one of the extreme outsiders, showed Continued on thirteenth page. i ; . 1 i 1 . 7 FAVORITE DISAPPOINTS! Continued from first page. a creditable performance to finish in second place, and Cousin Doll, the favorite, was third. I , Cousin Jo, one of the main contenders I ; i for the rich Illinois Oaks, to be run Satur- 1 day, was an easy winner of the fourth race. After Lady Fingers had set a fast pace for j the half mile, running the distance in :4625, . the Nuckols filly, taking her time, caught her in the stretch and drew away to win ! by more than two lengths. Lady Fingers ! finished second and Flimsy was third. Cousin Jo was not hard ridden at any stage of the race and proved by her performance that she will be a formidable contender in the ] rich three-year-old filly prize to be decided Saturday. Jockey Eugene James scored his second victory of the day when he rode Cousin Jo to victory and she was an odds-on favorite. The race, which was for a ,400 purse, was run over three-quarters. Apprentice E. Neal, who suffered a leg fracture in an accident in the closing race of the Churchill Downs meeting, will not be able to resume riding until about August 1, according to latest reports received by Wayne Lewis, trainer of the W. F. Axton stable, which has a contract on the boy. Neal is in a Louisville hospital.
