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CROWD OF 25,000 AT HAWTHORNE Chanceview Scores Most Important Victory in Decoration Handicap All Records Broken at Popular West Side Course, With Mutuel Play of Approximately 00,000 by Largest Gathering Ever Present at Cicero Course Sweeping to the front in the stretch and then driving on to the most important victory of his career, as the cheering of one of the largest crowds in all the record of Hawthorne racing rose to a deafening crescendo, Chanceview, rugged four-year-old Chance Shot gelding, became the winner of the Decoration Day Handicap here Saturday. Contesting with the most formidable handicap company that could be mustered to oppose him and running the one mile and one-sixteenth under ideal conditions in 1:46, Chanceview carried the blue and white silks of W. F. Planigan, of Louisville, to the notable conquest by a length and one-half over T. C. Wordens venerable veteran, Billy Jones, a Chicago owned entry, that was made the favorite. Carvola, a filly furnished by E. K. Bry-son, of Maryland, and the only three-year-old of the field, finished third, half a length back of the tiring runner-up and with as much of a margin over Mrs. Emil Dene-mars Corinto, also locally-owned and coupled as an entry with Chasar." With the nearest of them three lengths away from Corinto, the others, namely Salaam, Spanish Babe, Buck Langhorne! Chasar, Whiskolo and Official, passed the line of finish in that order. The stake, second on Hawthornes program of six features, had a gross value of ,210, of which ,350 represented the net value to the winning owner. The second horse earned ,000, while 00 and 50 were the awards to third and fourth. ARCAROS SECOND WINNER. Eddie Arcaro, Newport, Ky., boy, had the mount on the Flanigan four-year-old, his second winner of the bright and balmy afternoon. Chanceview carried 116 pounds to share top weight honors with Billy Jones and Corinto. Carvola shouldered 100 pounds and was ridden by Eddie De Camillas. Forced to race wide after encountering mild interference less than a sixteenth after the start, Chanceview loomed into prominence approaching the final quarter, then surged on as Arcaro guided him down the middle of the home stretch to brush aside Whiskolo, Buck Langhorne, Corinto and Salaam before he challenged the pacemaker-favorite in the last furlong. With Billy Jones collared, Arcaro took no chances and keeping after the Flanigan racer left him with little as he finished his job. Taking the seventh race for his fourth Continued on thirty-eighth page. CROWD OF 25,000 AT HAWTHORNE TRACK Continued from first page. victory in seven trips to the post this season, A. C. Comptons Pomposity scored the first victory for the public choices. Drawing away in the stretch, he won easily with Dark Woman second and Irish Ford third. Decoration Day, always a big day for sports fans when weather conditions are propitious, saw the Chicago Business Mens Racing Association entertaining one of the largest crowds ever on the grounds of that association. Included in the near capacity gathering of racing devotees were scores, if not hundreds, who traveled long distances to see the holiday sport and many large and small communities of the central West were represented. And it is doubtful if more prominent Chicagoans ever turned out for a single days racing at the west side track, many of the more notable patrons viewing the feature and other races from the clubhouse and reserve box sector of the grandstand. Officials estimated the attendance at between 25,000 and 27,000, while an estimate based on early figures set the probable mu-tuel turnover on the eight races and "Daily Double" at 00,000. Approximately 20,000 programs were sold. Had favorites behaved better in the earlier races, the volume of money wagered might have been greater. Not one choice was included among the winners of the first five races and the Four Roses Purse, the fifth race and secondary feature, provided one of the biggest upsets of the meeting when Milky Way Farms Sangreal, a 9 to 10 choice, finished fourth as three outsiders divided the larger parts of the purse. They were L. Handleys Inscona, Mrs. G. W. Ogles Infi-dox, and Doran, which races for A. Pelleteri, and they finished the three-quarters first, second and third as named. It was Inscona and Infidox from start to finish and while the favorite did manage to reach third place on the stretch turn, Dorans finish proved too much for him to withstand. Inscona, ridden by E. Arcaro, won by a length and one-half. He ran the distance in 1:13. Another juvenile of some promise was uncovered in the first race, a five-furlong contest in which eleven maidens of that age took part, in Fitter, a home-bred daughter of Sickle and Saleslady, from the J. E. Widener stable. Making her first start, the El-mendorf miss exhibited more than ordinary quality, and with a chance to improve may develop into a star. In this initial trial under silks she had to overcome some interference and, running the distance in 1:01, won by a length and one-half. Mondorf finished second, half a length before Gallant Eagle, which, as an entry with Never Tire, was the choice, the winner returning 10 to 1 straight. Considerable crowding marked the race and two victims of it, Nations Taste and Old Forester, had little or no chance after being forced back on the turn. Followers of favorites and apprentice James installed Uncle Mike a 3 to 5 choice for the second race, which brought seven of the cheaper three-year-olds to the post to race six furlongs, only to have the combination fail them when the G. R. Allen horse could do no better than finish third. While en route to the post he suffered a rather hard fall, in which James was not hurt, and it probably did him no good. The winner turned up in Mrs. Thelma Otts Kapado and he scored decisively, with Sainte DEspoir second.. The Blue Ridge Farm Stable of Mrs. M. E. OToole, of Chicago, furnished the winner for the third race, also at six furlongs, but engaging performers of three-year-olds or older, with the three-year-old Justice F. colt, Red, Flyer., Under a, hustling ride at the hands of R. R. Simpson, he made every post a winning one, and at the end was showing Good Cheer the way by a little more than a length. Minor honors went to Gold Thorn, which shared favoritism with the runner-up. An accident involving Lame Duck, also owned by the Blue Ridge Farm, with young Simpson in the saddle, marred the six furlongs fourth race, in which J. Carters consistent and improved Chimney Top scored for his fourth victory in successive starts, two at the meeting. Lame Duck fell less than 100 yards after the start and, clinging to the reins, Simpson took bridle and blinkers with him as he went sailing through the air and to a hard fall, in which he was severely shaken up. He was treated at the track hospital for cuts and bruises. First under way after the field had milled at the post for six and a half minutes, Chimney Top did all of his racing in front of his company and at the end was an easy and decisive winner. His final margin over Naughty, which outstayed the favorite, Bert
