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BABY WAYAND JAMES Prove Successful Combination in Featured Grant Park Purse. Decision of Fourth Race Marked by Dead Heat for Fourth Money Larger Attendance. CICERO, 111., Oct. 27. The Illinois-owned Baby Way, from the stable maintained by W. C. Reichert, raced to a popular and easy victory in the Grant Park Purse, fifth and one of the principal events on todays program at Sportsmans Park. The race, a sprint at six and one-half furlongs, brought together nine two-year-olds, and under Basil James, the daughter of Midway made every post a winning one. Closest to the Reichert filly, scoring the second victory of her career and her first of the local meeting, was Eleanor C, while Ruckic was third. The others were led home by Miss Chancery, which was coupled in the betting with American Honor as the J. J. Coughlin entry. The track was muddy and Baby Way seemed particularly suited to it. Eleanor C. raced in close pursuit of the Reichert filly to the final furlong, and there James shook up his mount and she responded by drawing away. Her time for the six and one-half furlongs was 1:25, creditable enough considering the condition of the racing strip. Eleanor C. tired slightly in her futile effort to overtake Baby Way, but still was good enough to lead Ruckle home by four lengths. Miss Chancery was another two and one-half lengths away at the end. The others were well strung out at the finish. HEAVILY BACKED. Baby Way was backed to the virtual exclusion of all others in the race. She paid but .80 for In the mutuels. Brighter and warmer weather today helped boost the size of the crowd and business in the mutuels was correspondingly greater than yesterday. W. B. Rays Whiskarita, somewhat overlooked in the betting in spite of her last winning performance, came back to score a handy victory in the seven furlongs event, which opened the days program. Moving around the leaders on the stretch turn W. J. Griffin sent Whiskarita along to victory by two lengths at odds of nearly 14 to 1. Second money fell to Oh Dolly, while Jim Ormont was third and Royal Bird next in the field of ten. Moll showed the most speed here for a half mile and then quit badly, finally finishing sixth. The second race, also at seven furlongs, went to Mrs. E. Oros Gibbys Choice, the old veteran winning in easy fashion from nine other cheap platers. C. Mills rushed the nine-year-old up on the outside after a half mile and then he raced Ogee into submission in the final eighthto score with two lengths to spare. Ogee, which had taken the lead in the back stretch, was much the best of the others, the third horse. Respect, being Continued on thirty-fourth page. BABY WAYAND JAMES Continued from first page. six lengths back at the. end. The others were shown the way under the wire by Royal Purchase. Both Respect and Royal Purchase came from far back to earn their respective shares of the purse. Gibbys Choice paid 9 for in the mutuels. STAR BESS REPEATS. Another repeater today was the well backed Star Bess, from the stable maintained by E. K. Murray. Ridden by T. P. Martin, one of the leading riders here, the daughter of Stars and Bars moved up to take command on the stretch turn and then triumphed under hustling tactics by a length and a quarter. Leona Reigh finished well to be second while Maxine B. . led home- seven other two-year-olds which completed the field. The disappointment was the well played Karkie, which failed to threaten at any stage of the five furlongs sprint The Nile a winner here yesterday, tried to make it two victories in as many days in the five furlongs fourth race, but the best the veteran mare could do was to finish third. Mrs. M. Parges Jim McConnell won the race at odds of a little more than 7 to 1, while Double Nugget was second. R. G. Cooper was astride the winner, which led his nearest rival under the wire by a length and a half. Witan and Miss Ritz dead-heated for fourth money in the field of nine. The strongly-supported Blue Bud, owned by Mrs. E. E. Keller and ridden by L. Wilson, accounted for the sixth race, a run of a mile and seventy yards, which engaged a capacity field of ten. Outrun for a half mile. Blue Bud worked her way up fast between horses thereafter, reached the front just after entering the stretch and won by two lengths. Second money went to Liquidation, while Sun Voter was third. John Tio, Sun Voter and Liquidation enjoyed leads at one time or another during the race before Blue Bud came along to settle the issue. The contest was exclusively for three-year-olds.
