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ODDS-ON CHOICE WINS Advising Anna Earns Her Fourth Purse in Six Starts. Victory Pleases. One of Arlingtons Largest Off -Day Crowds Favorites in the Limelight. ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, 111., July 27. Advising Anna, unbeaten in four starts as a two-year-old, accounted for her fourth victory in six starts in this, her three-year-old season, when she outsprinted Mjss Bunting, .Teralice and two others at three-quarters in the Brookwood Purse at Arlington Park today. This was the outstanding race of an afternoons sport that compared with the most formful of the meeting and Advising Anna, one of the shortest priced starters of the season, was held at one-to-three, and won to the complete satisfaction of one of the largest off-day crowds of the meeting. The winner, ridden by Charles Corbett in the silks of Mrs. Jack Howard, found opposition from an unexpected source when Miss Bunting, the John Marsch filly, which carried 101 pounds, or three less than the winner, was good enough to lead" the speedy Howard miss to within a sixteenth of the finish. Miss Bunting displayed fine speed in pacemaking and, while at one stage her advantage over the eventual winner, which was never further back than second, was three lengths, this gradually melted away before the Howard fillys final charge. SADDLE SLIPS ON BOILERMAKER. In the stretch, Miss Bunting, on which S. Coucci had the mounts bore out badly and as Corbett elected to bring the winner around Miss Bunting, it added to Advising Annas task. Shouldering top weight of 119 pounds, Rush Hour failed to make a very serious challenge and Teralice, from A. Bar-telsteins barn, outstayed him for the minor honors. Boilermaker, third choice to the winner and Rush Hour, was eliminated when the saddle slipped so badly that W. Fronk was fortunate to stay on the E. R. Bradley three-year-old. Lamporte, the Porte Drapeau gelding which W. C. Reichert purchased from the Three Ds Stock Farm Stable a week ago, opened the sport in a popular way when he won over the eleven other plater juveniles that opposed him over five and. one-half furlongs in the first race. The victor raced Grey Hip into submission without effort during the first four and one-half furlongs and, after taking command near the final eighth, was safe from Legal Gamble, which took second place by two and one-half legnths from Even Play. Legal Gamble lost ground throughout, while Even Play conceded the winner a big advantage at the start, where he began in a tangle and last in the large field. Grey Hip tired badly after reaching the stretch, while Go Forth, which was fifth, and the others, were outrun by the leaders in the stretch. COTTON CLUB IMPRESSIVELY. The second race, also for two-year-olds, brought together under claiming conditions, also fell to the public choice when C. n Van Meters Cotton Club was returned the winner. He won easily, with Peedeeque second and Her Gold third. Nine others started t in the contest, which saw the winner take command with a rush after following Drole Pollys pace to the stretch and, drawing into a lead of four lengths as he entered the last of the five and a half furlongs, the Van Meter colt was permitted to take it easy for the remainder of the race. Peedeeque worked his way up from a slow start and Her Gold, which also began languidly and rushed to a contending position, moved along in steady fashion in the final three-eighths. Tiding badly in the final drive, Drole Polly retired to fifth place, fourth money going to Owen. Votan came through with his first winning performance since the winter season and scored the third victory in as many races for the favorites when he carried R. W. Collins silks to victory in the third race. The finish was a driving one, the winner getting up in the final strides to win by a neck from Threat, which had no more of a final advantage over Sun Teatime. The latter two hooked up in a stubborn duel for Continued on nineteenth page. ODDS-ON CHOICE WINS Continued from first page. pacemaking honors and aided by their pace, the winner, which, after beginning fast, failed to keep up, overtook them with a belated rush. Barry took fourth money and included among the seven that followed him home was Brave and "Bold, the second choice. A victim of adverse racing luck, Eskimo brought the string of triumphs gained by the choices to a close when he was fourth to Speedy Charlie, Very Well and Prose and Poetry, ir the fourth race, also for cheaper platers and decided over three-quarters. Eskimo was so sharply cut off on the stretch turn that his rider was forced to take him up almost to a walk and, while he made up ground swiftly when clear during j the run to the finish, he could not get up. After setting all the pace and reaching the last furlong coasting along with a two lengths lead, Speedy Charlie tired, but J. Lowry kept him going just long enough to last for a nose decision over Very Well, which, like Prose and Poetry, finished in game fashion.
