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PLATERS HAVE AN INNING i Upsets Chief Feature of Off-Day Card at Detroit. * Kalola and Scythe Stage Thrilling Stretch Duel in Fourth, With Former Best by Nose. • DETROIT, Mich., July 10.— Platers had their inning at the Fair Grounds this afternoon. The eight-race program was devoted to those from the claiming ranks, but they provided spirited racing and several upsets enlivened the crowd, which was on a par with other week-day gatherings. Heavy clouds threatened rain all during the afternoon, but the track was at its best. One of the best fields started in the fourth race and it resulted in a mild surprise, when ! William Elliotts Kalola beat the lightly re- j garded Scythe by a nose for the winners portion. Third went to Good Scout. Eight started, but the winner, which was forced to race head and head with Lanier for the first half mile, proved easily best when he came again after giving way momentarily to Scythe in the final stages to score. From a slow beginning and forced to race on the outside, Good Scout came with a rush in the run through the stretch to be a length and a half back of Scythe and a half length before the favored Idle Along at the finish. Although Lanier quit badly after forcing the pace to the final furlong. Idle Along was a strong factor from the start, but tired fast when Scythe and Good Scout came with their belated charges. In scoring her second vicory of the meeting out of eight starts, the winner carried 106 pounds and ran the distance in the slow time of 1:13%. Mrs. E. W. Levys Donna Lascari made it three in a row and her second straight of the meeting when she was a driving winner at the end of the fifth race to. beat Cam-I pagna, Come Seven and seven other three-| year-olds. Hustled into the lead soon after j the start, the winner repulsed the strong challenge of Rishi in the first five furlongs and led the fast-finishing Campagna by a length at the end. While the latter was forced to come from far back and was lucky to find room on the inside, Come Seven was caught in close quarters midway in the stretch and but for this probably would have offered the leaders a sterner battle. After many unsuccessful effort, Carman- 1 chita graduated from the maiden juvenile ranks when she defeated Piping Hot, Mars Continued on twenty-second page. HATERS HAVE AN INNING Continued from first page. Palatine and six other two-year-olds that contested the five furlongs first race. The winning daughter of Sickle and Problem, which carried the colors of Miss H. M. McGonigle and the favorite, followed the pace of Piping Hot to the stretch, where she gradually wore the leader down to enjoy a length advantage at the end. Although well up from the start, Mars Palatine was shuffled back at the far turn, but, saving ground thereafter, was the best of the others. With the exception of French Servant, which retired after three-eighths, the others were never prominent. H. Callahan rode his second winner and the venerable Cog-Air scored his first victory of the year in accounting for the second race. At the end of the three-quarters dash, for which Emery and Tony Joe shared favoritism, the eight-year-old son of On Watch, which carried Nix and Hunters colors, was a length before Tony Joe, which beat Emery two lengths for the second award. While Tony Joe and Emery showed the way in the run to the stretch, the winner was forced to improve his position on the outside, but heading Tony Joe a furlong from the finish he drew away to his clear advantage at the end. Thistle Ace scored his first success of the year when he was an easy winner of the third race. Eight starter in the six furlongs race, and at the end Stock Market was a length and a half back of the son of Old Slip, which carried the George Collins colors. A half length in the wake of Stock Market was Flying FJynn, which enjoyed favoritism. There was a slight delay at the start, where Blue Dusk and Old Nan were fractious, but the field got under way in good order. After sprinting into a long lead in 1 the run to the far turn, Stock Market was *" put to undue pressure, and when Flying Flynn and the winner challenged he had little left. While Thistle Ace was always the best. Flying Flynn carried him wide entering the stretch and but for this interference Thistle Ace probably would have enjoyed a bigger advantage at the finish. Sam Fursts Eartering Kate, one of the most consistent platers here and a popular favorite, made good for her admirers when she was an easy winner of the sixth race, the first of the day at a distance greater than six furlongs. Second went to Terrain, with Peedeeque third. Outsprinting her opponents from the start, Bartering Kate set a good pace and, repulsing the mild bid of Terrain, came on to be in hand with an advantage of a length and a half at the finish. «
