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WESTROPE HAS BIG DAY IN SADDLE AT CICERO y MONTANA RIDER STARS Rides Numerous Winners at Hawthorne, Two for Bradley. Broad Meadows and Bittybit Carry Green and White Silks to Victory Replevin Surprises. CICERO, 111., Aug. 14. The riding of apprentice Jack Westrope and a double victory for the silk of Col. Edward R. Bradley, Kentucky sportsman, were outstanding features as the Hawthorne meeting swung into the third of its five weeks season here this afternoon. Westrope, who must only maintain the same pace at riding winners as he has sustained since he scored his maiden, or first success, on Lerack at Oriental Park in February, to establish a new modern mark, the best in twenty-five years, before the curtain is rung down on the sport for 1933, rode the two Bradley victors Bittybit and Broad Meadows, and also three of the other first six winning horses of the afternoon. Five engaged Broad Meadows over the six and one-half furlongs distance and, after easily disposing of Pancho Lopez, the early pacemaker, entering the stretch, Westrope piloted the Bradley veteran in safe command. Merrily On and Lemon Hills accounted for second and third and Pancho Lopez, which tired badly when the real test came also dropped fourth money to Mountain Elk. INCREASES AVERAGE TO .29. Westropes many successes of the afternoon brought his total of winners to a level giving him an average of twenty-nine tor each of the approximately six months he has been riding, and, if this average is maintained through the next five nad one-half months, his record for the year will equal or surpass Walter Millers total of 334 for 1907. Barring accident, Westrope is almost certain to surpass the record of Jack Gilbert, who, in riding 212 winners, not only topped the riders last year, but had one of the finest records of the last twenty years. Included among Westropes winning mounts was the Blue Ridge Farms three-year-old Dusky Devil, which out-finished the erratic Madwind, A. A. Baronis four-year-old, by a head in the mile and one-sixteenth Glendale Purse, which topped the days events. They fought it out slightly more than a length before Band Wagon, the C. T. Grayson starter, and the latter showed the way to four others of which Royal Blunder saved fourth money. With Dusky Devil, Westrope followed Band Wagons pace to the stretch where Mad-wind, which W. W. Wright has steadied along for three-quarters, beat him to the lead only to impair his chances by bearing over and the winner out-finished him in the closing strides. Although he tired in the drive, Band Wagon retained third by more than a length over Royal Blunder, Cee Tee and Red Roamer, which were noses apart at the finish. EARNS NOSE DECISION. Westrope also brought the two Bradley winners from behind the pace and with Bittybit got a nose decision over Mumsie at the end of the five and one-half furlongs, over which the ten two-year-olds, which met under claiming conditions, compared ability. The winner and runner up furnished a seesaw duel over the final furlong where Topple, charging from behind with a great belated rush, got up for third over Technocracy. Another of J. O. Kenes Keeneland Studs home-breds graduated when Chagrin, a daughter of Vito and Miss Muffins, after meeting much adverse luck in the early stages, got up for a head decision over Billy Pat in the five-eighths first race, for which twelve maiden juveniles comprised the field. Third honors were taken down by Snow Play and Chief Geronimo was fourth. Knocked " about on the far turn, Kissie, a slight favorite over the winner, was unable to get back into the real contest when clear. Westrope came back with his second winner in as many races when he directed Doris Jean, odds-on favorite, to victory over Continued on twenty-first page. MONTANA RIDER STARS Continued from first page., Pollys Folly, Portmanteau and five others in the second race. The winner took command soon after the start, and although she made a wide sweep on the stretch turn and was a good distance out from the rail, thereafter, was not seriously threatened by Pollys Folly, which held second by a wide margin throughout the closing quarter, where Portmanteau wore down Halliard and Sister Mary to gain the minor award. " Tiring badly in the last seventy yards after he had raced into command, Ed Lark, also ridden by Westrope and installed favorite, bowed to Replevin, Don Tasker and Catherine Fox in rapid succession at the finish of the nine furlongs in the third race. Replevin, the eight-year-old winner, scored by a neck, while Don Tasker took second place honors by a half length and Catherine Fox had only her nose in front of. the tiring choice when the placings were made.
