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SPANISH PLAY SCORES Defeats Wotan by Nose in Dempsey Memorial Handicap. Lucky Tom Finishes Third in Brilliant Race Winner Gallops Distance in Fast Time. NEW ORLEANS, La., Feb. 20. Lucky ,Tom, J. J. Robinsons good three-year-old, failed, but was not disgraced in an attempt to concede much weight to the leaders of the handicap division here in the Jack L. Dempsey Memorial Handicap, which provided a bristling race between Kneblekamp and Morris Spanish Play and Edward Haughtons Wotan, monarchs of the older division, before Spanish Play got away with the fixture by a nose over the game Wotan. Lucky Tom finished the eight furlongs in third place, leading Surf Board, Silverdale and Playtime. In actual weight, Spanish Play carried the top impost of 120 pounds, and Wotan 114, but with the younger Lucky Tom burdened with 110 pounds, the winner received seven pounds and Wotan 13 by the scale from their younger rival. The race, worth ,785 to the winner, was run over a good track and Spanish Play galloped the distance in 1:38, the second fastest time of the meeting. It was a bitterly contested race at every istage and, while Lucky Tom and the others were excelled by the winner and Wotan .when the real test was on, the stubborn manner in which they fought it out to the very end so thrilled those who supported others in their wake they forgot for the moment their choice. FAST START. From a fast start, Lucky Tom was first to draw clear and on the first turn and into the back stretch he led by a clear mar- gin, with Silverdale second and Wotan third. Near the end of a half-mile Silverdale took the lead, but had no more than drew clear when others, with the exception of Playtime, which was last throughout, closed in behind him. Going to the second turn the winner got a good break when he slipped through on the inside and again entering the stretch he came through next to the rail as Lucky Tom dropped back and Silverdale forced Wotan well out in the track. Some prominent Louisiana Derby candidates were included among the five three-year-olds that raced one mile in the St. .Charles Hotel Trophy, and it resulted in a local triumph when A. B. Letelliers Sazerac outstayed E. R. Bradleys Bertjohn, favorite, to win by a half-length, after setting all the pace. Espinaca nosed out -Crystal Prince for the minor award and Defier was the only other participant. SAZERAC BEST. Well rated by C. Landolt, Sazerac maintained his speed impressively when the real test came and, while giving ground slowly to Bertjohn in the late stages, held on a trifle too well for the popular Bradley colt. ,The leaders reached the finish far in the van of the almost evenly aligned Espinaca and Crystal Prince, and Defier quit badly after showing good speed for five furlongs. "When being pulled up Espinaca unseated H. R. Riley, who escaped unhurt. W. C. Clancy furnished the winner of the opening race for three-year-olds and over under claiming conditions, in Squeaky, which ruled favorite. While the High Time five-year-old won easily after getting away slowly, largely as a result of the carelessness of his rider, C. Weber, at the start, he got an unusually good start when Prometheus, second choice, ran out badly when showing the way on the turn. Prometheus failed to take any of the prizes, second going to Outcry and third to Tony Joe, which wore down Prometheus in the final strides. The consistent Nell Kuhlman, which races for W. F. Lutz, added another purse to her score when she won over Makanda, Or-Joff and seven other three-year-olds over one mile and a sixteenth, in the second race. She was installed favorite, while Makanda and Orloff had only scattered support. Ver- CGauimucd on thirteenth page.. SPANISH JftAY SCORES Continued from first page. ity Ballot, second choice, failed to race up to recent efforts. V. Roussell brought the winner outside the leading Array and Bright Knot after reaching the last three-eighths and, racing into a safe lead before the final sixteenth was reached, she was not threatened by Makanda and Orloff, which overtook the tiring Array in rapid fashion when within a few strides of the finish. But for some adverse luck, Orloff might have been closer up at the end.
