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MERINA BIG SURPRISE Crump Filly Runs Fast Six Furlongs n Joliet Handicap Victory. Challite Tires After Setting Fast Pace and Finishes Third Behind Calculator. CRETE, III., Oct 3. Mrs. William Crumps Merina, a rank outsider, raced to victory in the ,500 added Joliet Handicap, which featured this afternoons program at Lincoln Fields as the Tranquillity Farms Challite, heretofore regarded one of the outstanding juvenile prospects of the West and a strong favorite for the event, proved a bitted disappointment. Challite finished third, three-quarters of a length behind another neglected in the betting, the Valdina Farms Calculator, which, in turn, was a length behind Merina at the end of the six furlongs. Running the three-quarters over the prevailing fast track in 1:12U, the Crump filly, a daughter of St. Henry and Ocirena, earned ,150 for her owner. Carrying 107 pounds, eleven less than Challite was obliged to shoulder, she was ridden by the veteran Jimmy McCoy, who, it is recalled, rode Rifted Clouds to victory in the Washington Park Juvenile, the only other race in which the Tranquillity filly ever met defeat. Merl-nas victory today was the third of her career, in which she has alternately cam paigned in selling and allowance races. Challite cut out a burning pace, covering the first quarter in :225s and the half mile in :45?i, but thereafter tired badly. From the head of the stretch to the eighth post her lead had diminshed from four lengths to one and and a half, with Calculator only a head before the eventual winner. The others were well back. SIZZLING PACE. Challite. as she started tiring, loft plenty of room for her rivals on the inside, but the rider of Calculator. Joe Cowley, elected to come to the outside as McCoy went through on the rail with Merina. Calculator was the first of the leaders to bow to the winner and only a short distance from the wire Challite gave way to both of them. Exclaim, coupled with Lake View as the Roscdalc Stable entry, was a distant fourth, four lengths back of the favorite, while Proph, which relinquished fourth place within a few strides of the wire, led Legenda and Lake View by a big margin. The failure of Legenda, which, after breaking slowly, failed to display her highest speed, also added disappointment to the result. LARGEST ATTENDANCE. The program, which brought the semifinal week of racing at Lincoln Fields to a close, was offered under ideal conditions and before what appeared to be the largest crowd of the meeting. The sun shone brightly all afternoon and with the raclnj: replete with thrills, several of the contests developing rousing finishes, it was one of the most successful days in every respect during the current session. It brought the track out of a rather extended period of ill luck and with a good break for its final week the Lincoln Fields Jockey Club may be host to some of the largest crowds for a similar period during the entire Chicago season. Continued on thirty-fourth page. MERINA BIGSURPRISE Continued from first page. While fast, the track lacked full resiliency, otherwise the winners might have stepped along in faster time. The first race, at a mile and one-sixteenth, was featured by the success of the favorite. Tut Tut, a victory for the popular saddle artist James, and a start that was as near perfection as any seen here all year. Ten horses broke as one and maintained cavalry formation for nearly a furlong before settling into distinguishable positions. The six-year-old Tut Tut, racing wide and under urging to maintain a forward position, forged to the front on the second turn, then came on to score by three lengths. Port o Play, a rank outsider, moved up in the final quarter to be second, a similar margin before Pomparagon. Trek led home the others. Tut Tut is the property of the Tranquillity Farm, maintained by Henry H. Cross of Chicago. ONE NIGHT NARROWLY. John A. Best, whose Reveille Boy won the American Derby at Washington Park in 1930 and who now only is racing a modest stable, provided the winner of. the second race in One Night, which turned back eleven other maiden juveniles over six furlongs. The son of Strolling Player, well-backed second choice in the betting, won in a rousing finish, beating the more favored Watchfully and Nedson, coupled as the Valdina Farm entry, which ran second and third, respec-i tively. The winners margin was a neck, while Watchfully beat his stable companion a head. Three lengths farther back in fourth place came Sneakin. One Night, ridden by George South, was sent to the front at the outset and maintained the lead throughout, although he was hard put to stall off the runner-up. Nedson might have been an even more serious factor but for racing wide much of the way. Egmont, closest to the winners pace for a half mile, quit badly thereafter. The closest finish of the afternoon climaxed the running of the third race, at seven furlongs, in which four horses raced under the wire so closely aligned that it took the official placings to separate them. After consulting the pictures of the finish the judges . placed the horses in the following order: Charming Sir, Regards, Stealingaway and Roberta, the latter being the favorite. Charming Sir, owned by Kirk and ONeil and ridden , by F. C. Smith, reached the front in the . stretch- and, under vigorous handling; held . Regards safe after shaking off Stealingaway and Roberta. Regards, in front for a half mile, dropped back a little on the stretch turn but came again strongly on the inside . near the end and just failed to poke her nose in front. Terrier, for which there also : was strong support, moved up menacingly in the stretch, but then tired and finally finished fifth in the field of eleven.-
