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BIG CROWD AT FAIRMOUNT Attendance Picks Up as Weather Improves and End Approaches. Irish Spree Noses Out The Break and Pa-checo Is Close Third in Tower Grove Purse Long Shots Successful. COLLINSVILLE, 111., Oct. 14. Despite the uninteresting program and the eight races fiven over to the cheaper grade platers, a crowd estimated at 10,000 and one of the largest of the meeting was present at Fair-mount Park this afternoon for the next to the last day of the twenty-five-day meeting. With most favorable weather conditions and the track at its best, racing enthusiasts of the vicinity took advantage of the wonderful day to view the card, which, although lacking in class, offered spirited racing, with favorites falling before the onslaught of out-uiders. Seven of the eight races engaged limit fields, and as the cheaper grade platers were so evenly matched this accounted for the numerous surprise victories. The best band of platers met in the Tower Grove Purse, the fifth race, at one mile and a sixteenth, and the outcome was one of the closest finishes of the meeting, with J. P. Whites Irish Spree a nose the best of The Break, which had the same margin over the fast-closing Pacheco. A field of seven accepted for the fifth, and it was Dacite that showed the way around the club house turn, with The Break heading Pangloss. J. Dupuy was forced to pull up Pacheco when he was blocked while trying to slip through on the rail, and the gelding trailed the field to the final furlong. Dacite was leading the pack when they turned into the stretch, but R. Cooper had Irish Spree close to the pace and, wearing down The Break and Pangloss, he made for the leader. Taking a short lead at the eighth pole, Irish Spree drew away from his oppo- sition, but The Break was not through, and Pacheco was commencing to run. Reaching the withers of the winner in the final drive, The Break was running fastest on the inside, while Pacheco came up on the outside to offer trouble, and the trio were so closely aligned at the finish that it required the official placing to separate them. Camp Parole, slight favorite over The Break, raced far out of it until the final quarter, where he closed fast to be a length in the wake of the leading trio. Irish Spree, lightly regarded in the wagering, rewarded his backers with odds better than five to one. Lucky to find racing room next to the rail, Melvin Knight drove W. C. Morris Ir-faneh to a surprise victory over a limit field that met at three-quarters in the introductory dash, for which Tarpon ruled the favorite. Moselle S. raced to second place, a length back of the victor and enjoying the same margin over the fast-closing Dega. Lavender Lady outran Tarpon the first quarter and then drew clear only to relinquish the lead when Moselle S. charged in the stretch, but the latter was not good enough to withstand Irfanehs rush. Lavender Lady was two lengths back of the fast-closing Wega, while Tarpon, which was backed to practically to the exclusion of the others, quit after a half mile.
