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RUSHAWAY IN GREAT FINISH Outlasts Gallant Gay by a Nose to Score in Suffolk Downs Feature. Contest One of Most Sensational Witnessed f in New England Sector Winners Game Performance. BOSTON, Mass., June 29 In the most sensational finish of the New England season and one of the gamest performances seen anywhere in years, A. G. Tarns Rush-away, after making three distinct challenges in a mile race, drove home a nose in front of W. W. Adams Gallant Gay to win the Middlesex County Purse, which featured the best week-day card of the Suffolk Downs meeting to date. Gallant Gay appeared to be a 1 to 10 shot at the sixteenth post, but Johnny Longden, using whip, hand and heel, came flying on the outside in the last seventy yards and nailed the Adams colt right on the. wire. Rushaway was taken to the van at the half and led around the turn, but Gallant Gay,- after setting the pace the first quarter, came again. It appeared that Rush-away was through as they entered the stretch. It even appeared possible he might fade out of the money, but Longden put up the greatest stretch ride of the meeting to land him home. He came in gallant fashion, turning the final quarter in :27, flat, completing the mile in 1:39. Gallant Gay may have been short a yard or so in the race but he did not seem to sulk as is sometimes his custom when he is running in front. The winner simply outgamed him in the thrilling tilt through the last few yards. At the end Mrs. W. W. Vaughans Knight Warrior was third, and Brown Top fourth. Faust, stablcmate of the winner, and Swamp Angel were the only other starters. The third horse was a length and a half back at the judges, but the race was strictly between the leading pair from start to finish. Mrs. W. C. Weants Marfree,. ridden by Cooper, drove home by a head in the six-furlong event that opened the sport. It was the first start Marfree has made in the silks of his owner, who claimed him last out, and he turned in a much improved effort. Suburban Stables Sophist was second, half a length in advance of Albert Ketchells Hasti- riip. , , Windsor Farms Double Scotch, under a whipping drive from Ken Knott, got up to defeat the Sreentrees Banjorine by half a length in the five-furlong dash that was second on the program. W. W. Adams Conservative, the choice, was third,, beaten by a nose for second place in one of the best finishes seen here this season. Conservative broke on top and set the pace to the sixteenth post, but was never out by more than a narrow margin, about a neck separating her from Double Scotch as they rounded the far turn. At that point Banjorine drove to second place and the three came into the stretch closely locked. Roy Seldens Maple Queen, one of the real bargain buys of the New England season, was given an excellent ride by young R. R. King, who just arrived here from the west coast, and drove to victory a length in front of D. J. Sullivan III.s My Blonde in the six-furlong third race. The latter, which set most of the pace and appeared a winner on the stretch turn, could not match Maple Queens late speed, but was a length and a half clear of Mrs. F. C. Dunns Coya at the end of the journey. Miss Premier finished fourth in the field of nine. Ken Knott completed a double in the fourth when he piloted Wheatley Stables Seabiscuit Koine a length and a half in front of Miss Ethel Hills Deliberate. Previously he had scored astride Double Scotch. Log Cabin Studs Liberal finished third in the six-furlong sprint and Black Mistress was fourth in the field of a dozen. The winner paid off at the fancy odds of 7.20. The son of Hard Tack was worked out a mile after the race. Whipper Cracker made it two in a row at this point when he finished fast in the stretch to take the sixth event. The score marked a consecutive double for Johnny Longden and the A. G. Tarn stable. At the end the Transmute gelding was a neck in front of Mrs. J. A. Coburns My Purchase, which just got up to take second place by a nose over T. S. and J. S. Mulvihills American Prince, which made the pace until they turned for home. 1
