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RAIN MARS OPENING OF HAWTHORNES a FINAL WEEK . FOREVER PRINCE SCORES Grof f Racer Comes From Far Back in Madison Purse. Chief Menteur Sets Early Pace, but Winds Up Unplaced Black River Earns Brackets. CICERO, 111., Oct. 3. Hawthorne launched its last week of racing with a program featured by two sprints, the Madison Purse at six furlongs and the Wheaton Purse at a mile, and although disagreeable weather conditions prevailed, a fair-sized crowd was in attendance. Skies were heavily overcast all afternoon and frequently light showers helped to make the afternoon gloomier. The Madison Purse saw Forever Prince, owned by R. C. Groff, come from a good way back to defeat six other three-year-olds after covering the three-quarters on a fast track in 1:13. Morris Vehons Tiger Teddy, which as part of an entry with Jake Lowensteins Commission, ruled the favorite, was second, with W. F. Mannaghs recently-acquired Chief Nadi third, a length farther away. Chief Menteur, which finally finished fourth, was the early pacemaker, but approaching the last eighth, Tiger Teddy forged to the front. The latter looked like a winner for a time but Forever Prince was closing fast on the outside and got up in the closing strides to achieve victory, his third of the year. COMMISSION NOT MUCH HELP. After the opening quarter, during which he was right there with the leaders, Commission was not much help to his running mate and eventually finished last. Forever Prince, ridden by Wallace Leishman, paid 1.60 for in the mutuels. Mrs. A. M. Creech provided the winner of the Wheaton Purse with Gato, which led from start to finish. C. E. Davisons Masterpiece, a slight favorite over the winner, finished second and M. Vehons Mothers Love, coupled with Guarantor, was third. Gato, guided by Robert Conley, set the pace under a good job of rating and the horse only had to be shaken up entering, the stretch to hold his advantage for another eighth. Then, however, Conley was forced to put Gato to stronger pressure and only managed to land him in front at the end by a neck. Masterpiece was never far away and he responded well to pressure in the drive and in a few more yards he might have reversed the order of finish. Mothers Love had raced closest to the leader to the last eighth and then began to tire, finally finishing four lengths behind the runner-up. Bonny Clabber led home the others. Guarantor put Manrico out of the running on the first run and for the offense jockey Kenneth McCombs was fined 0 by the stewards and set down for the remainder of the Hawthorne meeting. OUR DAVID EASILY. Hanging up his second straight win, V. E. Berrys Our David raced to an easy victory in the opener, a sprint of six and a half furlongs, which brought out a dozen performers. Jockey Charles Calvin hustled the Bud Lerner gelding to the front shortly after the start and, after a brief brush with the favorite, Broad Lights, drew into the clear and finally got to the finish with an advantage of three lengths. The battle for the lesser portions of the purse was considerably more spirited, with Rich Cream, Broad Continued on thirty-ninth page. RAIN MARS OPENING OF HAWTHORNES FINAL WEEK Continued from first page. Lights and All Forlorn finishing second, third and fourth, respectively, separated only by inches. Chinese Empress was in the thick of the contest to the last quarter, and then weakened to drop out of contention. The second race, decided over a mile and a sixteenth, produced a ding-dong finish, in which Le Miserable, the favorite, got a narrow decision over Isolene. Le Miserable, owned by P. L. Kelley and ridden by Jimmy Ashcroft, followed in closest pursuit of Iso-lenes pace well into the stretch, and then forged his way forward. After getting to the front inside the last eighth, the Kelley horses started to loaf, but Ashcroft managed to keep him going long enough to score by a; nose. Flying Breeze raced in third place throughout, with fourth money going to Rail Down. I ASHCROFTS SECOND. Apprentice Ashcroft handled his second winner of the afternoon when he drove Mrs. Rose Sullivans Black River home in front at the end of six and a half furlongs of the fourth event. Closing boldly in the last I quarter, the Sullivan gelding wore down the leaders near the end to score at odds of a little better than 6 to 1. After having shown the way through most of the early furlongs, Patrolite ran second, a neck behind the winner and a head before Male-man. Sanctity, on which the public centered its play, led home the others in the field of eleven. Another to register her second straight triumph was Grape Vine, a juvenile filly in the stable of Mrs. Emil Denemark. This daughter of Supremus raced wide, but began to improve her position on the stretch turn. She was brought to the extreme outside for the drive and, responding to the urging of her rider, got up near the end to score by a little less than a length. The favorite here was Orchids Next, which could do no better than second, while Lady Albert G., which set all the pace, had to be content with third money. Azafran was so fractious at the post that she was placed outside the stalls for the start and from that position she broke poorly. Kenneth McCombs rode the winner.
