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BIG BEAU WINS ON TURF; • Headley Colorbearer Gets Up in the Final Sixteenth. • Mack Garners Riding Features Mondays Racing — Seth Polante Set Back for Interference. ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, 111., July 9.— In the most exciting race held on the turf at Arlington Park during the meeting, Hal Price Headleys Big Beau triumphed in the Deerfield Purse, feature of the program j starting the third week. Running the mile j ■ in 1:39 for a new record, Big Beau defeated Mrs. John Hertz Watch Him by half a J length, with William Sachsenmaiers Pot au Brooms third, a similar distance back. Late Date and Growler completed the field. The race was a spectacle throughout, with Watch Him setting the pace by a narrow margin from shortly after the start until Big Beau caught him in the final sixteenth. The Headley veteran then did not take command until after a brisk tussle with Watch Him. Starter Roy Dickerson sent the five away In alignment, with Big Beau the first to Bhow in front. Alfred Robertson immediately took him in hand as Watch Him took the lead, with Growler second and Pot au Brooms third. The latter was on the inside, while Late Date and Big Beau were farther out. In the run down the back stretch. Watch Him held command by a head over Growler, while Late Date had been sent up on the outside to lap both of them. The others were several lengths away with Pot au Brooms on the inside. SPIRITED STRETCH BATTLE. On the second turn Robertson called on Big Beau, and he moved up rapidly on the outside. Arcaro called on the Sachsenmaier veteran, and he moved up on the inside, but with no prospect of getting through. Coming into the stretch Big Beau was at Watch Hims heels, while Pot au Brooms had smashed his way through on the inside of the tiring Growler and Late Date. The three leaders then staged a close battle for a furlong, after which Big Beau and Watch Him forged away in a duel of their own. Then in the last sixteenth the Headley horse asserted himself. A fast track was in order for the days sport despite- overcast skies. The patronage was larger than previous Mondays, while wagering also showed an increase. Juveniles furnished the sport in the opening race when twelve faced the starter. This resulted in one of the closest finishes of the meeting when Commandant, under the colors of R. J. and P. A. Nash, came to the line of finish a nose in advance of Mrs. K. Hitts Monedy, which held a length and one-half advantage over Bossie Eye, which was third. Monedy might have reversed the decision but for bearing out badly in the closing stages, which virtually cost her the race. The winner proved his superiority when he came from a good distance back to get away with honors, and the ride of the veteran, A. Richard, also played an important part in the triumph. FIRST DISQUALIFICATION. The first disqualification of the meeting occurred in the second race when G. W. Ogles Seth Polante was set back for forcing Jascha extremely wide during the stretch run. The winner turned up in Wild Reigh, which was heavily backed by the talent, with the result he paid only .40 for a ticket. The victor gave his admirers some tense moments during the running when he was well back, and it was not until the horses turned for home that he reached a contending position. After straightening for the run home he filed past his opponents and closed one length to the good. After the disqualification Lady La Maine was awarded second, while third went to Jascha. The third was productive of another bristling finish, when Stuyvesant Peabodys Miss Melody accounted for her first victory of the year when she proved gamer than Fair Image, another Chicago-owned performer. The winner indulged Frisco in the Continued on twenty-second page. BIG BEAU WINS ON TURF Continued from first pope. lead to the stretch and when ready easily supplanted the pacemaker, but was unable to attain a clear margin, as Fair Image moved up to her a sixteenth out and offered stubborn contention. Fair Image cut down the lead of the victress to some extent, but was not good enough to overhaul her. Third went to an outsider, when Frisco got away with the minor award and just managed to save that part of the purse from Chief Pilot, which finished in such resolute fashion that only a head separated them at the end. The veteran trainer, R. A. Smith, saddled another winner when he sent Special Agent postward in the fourth race which he won in hollow fashion, leading home eight others over the five and one-half furlongs distance. The victor, a good looking youngster, raced the distance in 1:06 flat and closed his engagement with a five lengths margin over E. R. Bradleys Born Happy, which was second a length in front of C. V. Whitneys Wild Pigeon, which was under severe pressure to save third from Gallaclay. This was the second winner for Mack Garner, who had scored previously on Miss Melody. Brookmeade Stables Good Goods qualified for his engagement in the Classic by a handy victory in the sixth race, the Elm-wood Purse, at one mile, in which he defeated Audley Farms Carbina by three-fourths of a length. The latter barely nosed out the fast-finishing Red John, owned by Mrs. John Hertz. Elf Lock was fourth of the eight starters. The triumph marked a double for Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloanes establishment and a triple for the veteran Mack Garner. The latter had previously won on Brookmeades Special Agent and Stuyvesant Peabodys Miss Melody. The half brother to Toro was well restrained far back of the pace for a half mile, after which he moved up rapidly on the outside. Good Goods did not get to the front, however, until the final sixteenth, where he drew away steadily. Thomasville set the early pace with Carbina at his heels. The Audley filly went to the leader at the turn into the stretch and raced him into defeat in a few yards, but she could not stave off the winners bid and just lasted to hold second place from Red John, which was lucky to get through on the inside. Elf Lock, which had been a trailer with Good Goods, moved up with him, but. tired after passing the furlong post. The winner carried top weight of 112 pounds and ran the mile in 1:37.
