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COADY WINS FOR WEANT Defeats Clean Play in South Miami Purse at Tropical Park. Chill Breeze Has No Effect on At tendance The Heathen Adds Purse to His Earnings. MIAMI, Fla., March 15. W. C. Weants Coady, in a driving finsh, was winner of the best offering of the Gables Association at Tropical Park this afternoon when in a sinew straining drive he just got up to score over Mrs. V. M. Duncans Clean Play, with S. F. Murphys Glenside, a former stablemate of Clean Play, saving third from T. Sullivans Scot Free, the one that attracted most attention before the race. A chill breeze did not prevent a big crowd from turning out and it was swelled considerably by visitors from Havana, where the racing season came to a conclusion Sunday. Coadys victory came in the South Miami Claiming Purse and six went to the post. Little time was lost at the barrier and the start was an excellent one, with Ensor at once taking command with Clean Play. When the back stretch was reached he was joined by Glenside and the pair, closely lapped, drew away into a lead of three lengths over the others. SCOT FREE PINCHED BACK. Ensor had the inside position with Clean Play and he had the son of Sweep under slight restraint as he went stride for stride with the son of Eternal. Westko was in third place and Coady was lapped on him. Scot Free had been slightly pinched back going to the first turn and he was in the rear, but within striking distance. These positions were maintained in the run through the back stretch and Westko was first to tire. As he dropped back Coady moved into contention, but Clean Play and. Glenside were still racing along in front closely lapped with first one and then the other showing his head in front. Finally Glenside gave way and Clean Play drew away, but at the same time Coady came with a rush, while Scot Free was blocked when Stevens attempted to send him through on the inside. Clean Play hung on well in the final drive, but his early racing with Glenside had taken its toll and in the final strides Coady dropped his head down in front. Glenside stuck it out to be third, "but was a length and a half farther back and Scot Free was fourth. CAPSHEAF BEST. C. V. Whitneys Capsheaf, a son of Blondin Belle of All, was an easy winner of the opening half-mile race, for maiden juveniles, and he established a new track record when he ran the distance in :48, to beat Ward and Burtons Opinion, while Joe Edwards Strait Jacket easily saved third from Miney Myerson. Capsheaf left from the outside stall in the field of a dozen that started, and that is something of a handicap racing half a mile. He had speed enough to take an early lead and Robertson simply let him go along in his own fashion to be past the line winner by a length and a half. Opinion raced well all the way and held his position to beat Strait Jacket by a like distance. The Edwards juvenile had no excuse. Blarney Castle, one that had shown speed on other occasions, was never a contender, while Try Mack raced greenly and can surely do better. W. L. Johnsons Charlie proved easily best of the big field of cheap ones that met in the second race, when, after making all the pace, he was an easy winner from A R. F. Coppages Marabou, with J. C. Ellis I Black Stockings saving third from Patrick m Callahan. Charlie left his stall running and Hanford took every advantage of that when 1 " he sent him out to a safe lead. There he rated him along to increase his advantage to four lengths and he still was three lengths clear crossing the line. Marabou showed improved form under the energetic handling of Ensor and, steadily gaining, was in second place before the stretch was reached, but could not run the winner down and was a length and a half before Black Stockings. The Ellis gelding broke a bit slowly and ran a good race to reach third place before Patrick Callahan, finishing a length before the Fletcher plater. Estin was a disappointment. He closed some ground in the early racing, but could never reach a contending position and quit badly under a drive. The Heathen was dropped down among the cheap ones in the third race at three quarters, and then Ensor had to rouse him Continued on twenty-second rn-ae.. COADY WINS FOR WEANT Continued from first page. smartly and ride him out energetically to have him the winner over Mose Lowensteins Zegora, and Ward and Burtons Dedicate easily saved third from Hieover. The Heathen drew out into a good early lead and Ensor rated the old fellow along as Bad Axe ran after him. Then Dedicate and McTinkle both moved up and Bad Axe dropped back rather badly, but The Heathen held to his lead. Ensor went out slightly at the stretch turn and, there, Dedicate was rushed up on the inside and, for an instant, he threatened to catch the veteran son of Donnacona, but Ensor went to work on the old fellow to hold his lead. McTinkle had dropped back badly, but Zegora, which had been well back in the early stages, came with a rush in the final sixteenth and, while The Heathen was winner by slightly more than a length, Zegora was up to beat Dedicate by a head for second place, and Hieover was fourth but another seven lengths back. Montanaro was an easy winner in the fifth race. He was in with a much poorer band than he usually races with and his connections were confident of the result. The Hatch racer was always favorite. When the start came Montanaro was off with the leaders. Riley eased back at the first turn and went to the outside making the turn into the back stretch. Moving up fast going to the half-mile post, Montanaro was 4n front and for the remainder of the journey Riley had his mount under slight restraint. Coming into the home stretch Bounding Deep moved up with a bold move, but the winner always held him safe and at the finish had a margin of a length and a quarter to spare. Braggadocio was third another length and a half back.
