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CHARITY DAY BIG SUCCESS Approximately 20000 Realized by Mondays Racing at Churchill Entertaining and Wholesome Sport Provided ProvidedOver Over Lightning Fast Track Despite DespiteUncomfortably Uncomfortably Hot Weather LOUISVILLE Ky May 21 With a crowd that closely approached Saturday propor ¬ tions present and several thousand addi ¬ tional tickets sold to 600 who could not at ¬ tend todays oneday charity meeting at local Churchill Downs was a fine success probably yielding as much as 20000 What ¬ ever the net proceeds they are to be turned over by the Churchill Downs management to the Louisville Junior Board of Trade which sponsored the venture and in turn will be tendered the Louisville Community Chest organizationThe by the organization The weather was almost unbearably hot patrons preferring the shaded parts of the plant Despite lack of moisture the racing I strip was lightning fast safe and there was SaturdayIn considerably less dust than on Saturday In the American Business Club Claiming Purse which preceded the featured Junior Board of Trade Handicap Laffoon and Yeisers Shepherd Boy an offender in pre ¬ vious starts during the meeting had to cover the seven furlongs in the fast time of 124 to win by a short length and a half over M J Conleys My Blaze Cherry Time owned by Mrs W Crump whose colors triumphed earlier in the afternoon was third a similar distance back of the runnerup and four lengths before Broom shot Ridge Blond and Crania completed the field fieldThe The winner ridden by Gilbert Elston and equal second choice with My Blaze moved up from behind the fast pace in the stretch Continued on twentysixth page CHARITY DAY BIG SUCCESS SUCCESSContinued Continued from first page and after driving through between My Blaze apd the favorite Cherry Time in the clos ¬ ing sixteenth pulled away slowly as My Blaze was shaking off Cherry Time The latter made the pace to within a short dis ¬ tance of the final furlong where My Blaze went to the front Ridge Blond and Crania both fell back after racing prominently to the stretch turn turnFrank Frank Ormont racing under the colors of Wood F Axton local sportsman and to ¬ bacco manufacturer who was most active in the formation of plans and sale of tickets for the benefit racing registered a popular and most fitting win in the starred handi ¬ cap Running the seven furlongs in exactly the same time as Shepherd Boy he scored by a neck with Coflier the Greenbrier Stable representative second and F C Mc Atees Jessie Dear third
