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MAKING BUBBLES WINS AGAIN Second Straight for Burkett Racer Beck Pilots Winner. V Nell Kuhlman Races Well to Take Second Place Overboard Accounts fcv Fairmount Purse. COLLINSVTLLE, 111., Oct. 11. Albert Beck, the clever apprentice who has been much in the limelight during the current meeting, gave one of his exhibitions when he brought Mrs. A. Burketts Making Bubbles to the finish of the six furlongs "Say It With Flowers" Purse, the fifth and best race of the program at Fairmount Park this afternoon. Nell Kuhlman, carrying the bulk of the support, raced to second place, two lengths in the wake of the winner and six lengths in the van of W. C. Merricks Preferred. A small field of six started, and Beck, who previously scored with Overboard, lost little time in getting the winner in front. Nat Weiss was racing the best of the others, with Dacite showing the way to Nell Kuhlman. They continued in this order to the three-eighths post, where Nell Kuhlman passed Dacite and began wearing down Nat Weiss. Turning into the stretch, Beck selected the footing next to the rail with Making Bubbles, while Nell Kuhlman raced in the middle of the strip. Offering a bold threat midway in the stretch, Nell Kuhlman proved a menace, but Beck went to work on Making Bubbles, and the latter, responding in the best of fashion, came with a determined rush that carried him to the finish well in hand. After following the others for the first quarter, Preferred caught his opponents and, although unable to offer a serious threat to the first two, was much the best of the others. In scoring his second consecutive success. Making Bubbles rewarded his backers with odds of better than three-to-one. With a return, of clear weather, although there was still a tinge in the air, the attendance was far better than that of yesterday when the management suffered its heaviest loss of the meeting. The track was still heavv and holding and this was largely responsible for several of the surprise victories. It was ladies day and with the fairer sex in the majority it was appropriate that the races bore the name of various flowers. Again, those from the claiming ranks had full sway of the eight race program, but in several instances the platers offered some interesting contests. The Dahlia Claiming Purse, at one mile, which brought together a field of seven three-year-olds as the fourth race, afforded Bob Sundheimers Sunny Bob an opportunity to score his initial success of the year. Tricycle raced to second place after leading until far into the stretch, with More Space much the best of the favored Polycron. Lavender Lady and Gnome Queen were pulled up after they were outrun for a half mile. From the start Tricycle raced into a long lead before reaching the back stretch and, continuing well from thereon, entered the Continued on thirtieth page. MAKING BUBBLES WINS AGAIN Continued from first page. final quarter with a four length advantage. However, Tracy Reno was bringing up the ultimate winner fast and was wearing down the leader in the final furlong. Sunny Bob had nearly a three-length margin at the finish. After racing close to the pace for the opening quarter, Polycron dropped back suddenly, only to come again in the final quarter, but was no match for More Space. There was heavy support for Sunny Bob and he was a strong second choice to Polycron. The opening dash, which brought together a limit field of platers at six furlongs, was productive of an upset when A. L. Hyltons lightly regarded Morvich Niece was a driving winner over the strongly supported Margaret Parker, with Noricr, second choice, much the best of the others. After Broadway Call had shown the way to the final quarter, H. Bracken came through the center with the winner and, although she bore out slightly in the final furlong, Morvich Niece led Margaret Parker by a length at the finish. Giving away ground to Norias midway of the stretch, Margaret Parker came again to outlast the former by half a length. With the exception of Broadway Call, the others offered no serious contention. A. Lewis Muir Station, a maiden son of Prince of Bourbon and a member of the mu-tuel field, was much the best of the others that met at six furlongs in the second race. Morroll raced to second place with the staunchly backed Aristocrat third. Moselle S. and Irfaneh showed the winner the way to the first turn, but Willie Dovet sent the Lewis three-year-old by them like a sky rocket and it was only a canter for the victor from thereon. Moselle S. was in second place at the three-eighths post, but she dropped back fast when Morroll and Aristocrat charged on her during the stretch run. Muir Station came to the finish with a four-length margin over Morroll, which enjoyed the same advantage oyer Aristocrat. Justifying the confidence of his backers, which installed him an odds-on choice, E. D. Slavins Overboard registered his second consecutive win of the meeting when he accounted for the third race at three-quarters in hollow fashion over a band of eleven others tb .t came together under claiming conditions. Crack Play, the rank outsider, was second, with Timekeeper third. The unruly field delayed the start for five minutes and Brrwn Trap, breaking from outside the stall was the first to get into motion, but Beck soon had the winner in front and, speeding far in the van of the field, Overboard came to the finish with a six length margin over Crack Play, which was always the best of the others. With the exception of mild threats from Absurdity and Miss Onine and the belated rush of Timekeeper, the others offered no serious opposition. Ottie M. scored her third victory of the meeting when she got up in time to be a driving winner of the sixth race that attracted a field of ten two-year-olds. Lilac Bloom was second and Worthys Pride third, before the well-backed Cliftons Queen. Tommy May worked his way to the front gradually with Ottie M. and, taking command a sixteenth of a mile from the end, she led Lilac Bloom by a length.
