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SPEEDY SKIPPY FIRST Romps Through Sloppy Going to Win Harvey Claiming Purse. Cold Weather Responsible for Smallest Crowd of Meeting James Continues to Gain. The standing in-line race for the I riding championship of the year at the J end of Mondays racing follows: James 20S Winners I Chojnackl 201 Winners j CICERO, 111.. Oct 26. Dan Hardys Speedy Skippy, a 15 to 1 chance in the mutuels, raced to victory over five furlong3 of sloppy going to win the Harvey Claiming Purse, which topped todays cold weather program at Sportsmans Park. Displaying J an improved effort, the six-year-old son of Paicines raced Playmaster into defeat on the stretch turn, and then drew out to score by a little more than two lengths as Play-master, the pacemaker, hung on to save second place from Jinnee. The race brought out only six, the others in the order in which they passed the judges being Bald Crest, Palm Island and Red Flyer. - Speedy Skippy was ridden by Stuart Vail, who shared the days riding honors with Basil James who, with two winners to hi3 credit in the first five races, began to draw away from Frank Chojnacki in their battle for first place in the national jockey race. Vail also rode two of the first five winners. Speedy Skippy raced in close pursuit of Paymasters pace through the early furlongs, and when put to pressure on the stretch turn, the Hardy representative j responded by going to the front with a rush. Plajnaster hung on doggedly after being headed and saved the place a neck before Jinnee, which wa3 never far back. Bald Crest raced evenly most of the way, while Palm Island and Red Flyer seemed unable to untrack themselves in the going. Red Flyer finished last and pulled up sore. The program was presented under the most trying conditions. The track was sloppy and the weather cloudy and cold, factors which had a marked effect on the size of the crowd. It was the smallest of the meeting. JAMES THIRD WINNER. James rode his third winner of the afternoon and increased his margin over Chojnacki when he piloted J. J. OByrnes Chry-sostom to a popular victory in the sixth race, a run of a mile and one-sixteenth. Under strong restraint for three-eighths. Chrysos-tom moved up fast thereafter and reached the front in the final furlong to win by a length and one-half. Afterward he was noticed to have pulled up very lame. Inflame which had raced Thistle Jock into defeat after going a half mile, finished second, Continued on thWyfourth page. SPEEDY SKIPPY FIRST Continued from first page. while third money went to Wearwell. The latter came from far back in the final quarter to be third. Julia Grant was next in the field of seven. Mrs. Ike Seybolds The. Nile was made an odds-on chance in the five furlongs first race and the veteran mare did not disap-; point With Stuart Vail in the saddle, the seven-year-old daughter of Dominant fol-I lowed the pace of Dominant Star, another ! seven-year-old mare by Dominant for about half the distance and then went to the front to win by a length and a half. Though tiring near the end, Dominant Star clung to .the place award, while Prairie King was third. The race brought together a field of ten. Early Dawn leading home the others. , j The smallest "Daily Double" return of the I Chicago season, .80, and one of the small-! est ever returned in Illinois, was posted after the second race, which went to Chappel Br03. Tad. Like The Nile, Tad was held at 3 to 5 in the betting. Tad, carrying James jto his 204th Victory of the year, took the I lead after five-eighths and at the end of the six and a half furlongs had a length and a half to spare. Birds Eye, well up from the beginning, was second, while third money fell to Captain Jeffers. The others in the field of ten were led home by Lovey Lyons. The race was for maidens, three years old or older. CHAPPEL BROS. DOUBLE. James and the Chappel Bros. stable completed a "double" in the third event when Tetrashera, coupled in an entry with Starab, scored a one-sided victory. Honored Miss, coupled with Collegian as the J. J. Coughlin entry, ran second, while Countess Reigh was third and Magic Lad fourth. Tetrashera slipped through on the rail when Countess Reigh went wide on the first turn and, once in front, the Chappel representative was never headed. At the end he was four lengths in front. The race was at six and a half furlongs and engaged ten maiden two year-olds. A rank outsider, C. S. Bancrofts Skeetcr, accounted for the five furlongs fourth race as the heavily backed choice, Ipso Facto, took second money, two and a half lengths back. Ipso Facto had the most speed here and showed the way to the head of the stretch, but there he succumbed to Skeeter, which, under Joe Sylvester, had moved up fast on the outside to take command. Denbigh was third in the field of six two-year-olds, while Sneakin was fourth. Arthur B. and Sealine were the only other starters. Skeeter, the longest chance in the race, paid 4.40 for .
