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XENOMAY . OUTFINISHES CATOMAR AT HAWTHORNE 6S 5?1 EASY SAILING UNPLACED Favorite Unable to Get Money Place in Headliner. Fifth Straight Public Choice to Fail . Gay May Furnishes Surprise in the Fourth Race. CICERO, 111., Oct. 4. J. W. MacClatchies Xenomay, winner of, five races this year before coming to Chicago in August, scored her first victory of the local season by accounting for the La Salle Purse, a spring of one mile, which served as one of the head-liners on Tuesdays program at Hawthorne. Under the guidance of Willie Page, the four-year-old filly by Xenofol took the lead going around the first turn and after setting all of her own pace had enough left to resist the challenge of Catomar and win by a lnegth. Dark Sun was third to complete the eight furlongs, which the winner ran on a fast track in 1:39, while Easy Sailing, the favorite of the field, was fourth. The only other contestant was Little Drift. Easy Sailing was the fifth straight public choice to meet defeat and while several of the earlier favorites had either bad racing luck or met with injury, this one had no excuse. LITTLE DRIFT CONTENDER. Little Drift raced in closest pursuit of Xenomay to the second turn and then Dark Sun took up the chase. Approaching the last eighth, Catomar, which had been trailing the field, moved into second position and though hard ridden could not reach the leader. Catomar swerved to the inside sharply near the end and almost caught Xenomays heels. Easy Sailing saved ground all the way, but failed to improve her position when jockey Robert Finnerty called upon her on the second turn. Xenomay, the longest-priced horse in the race, paid 5 for in the mutuels. Although weather and racing conditions were ideal, the sport attracted one of the smallest crowds of the meeting. Covering six furlongs in 1:11, Mrs. J. A. Nix Our Crest accounted for the co-feature, the Springfield Purse, which engaged a field of six. Coming over on her opponents soon after the start, Floragina showed the way to a point near the finish, where Our Crest got up to score by a head. Millie M. was a length farther away in third place at the wire, with Sly Gal finishing fourth. Ves-pasiano and Decuria, performing as an entry, were the other starters. Our Crest, piloted by Kenneth McCombs, followed in hottest pursuit of Floraginas pace until she finally forged to the front in time to earn first money. The winner was the favorite, at odds of a little more than 2 to 1, and became the first choice on the card to score. After six unsuccessful attempts, Mrs. Lon Copenhavers Shasta Plucky graduated from the maiden ranks in the first race which brought out eleven other two-year-old non-winners. Lucky enough to get away in motion from a ragged start, Shasta Plucky, with Jimmy Ashcroft at the reins, made every post a winning one and completed the distance with a little more than a length to Contirved on thirty-fifth page. XENOMAY OIJTFINISHES CATOMAR AT HAWTHORNE Continued from first page. spare. Sir Passes came from behind in the last quarter to garner second honors with third money going to Blondkin. Hadnogal, the favorite, was well up among the leaders for a half mile, but then had enough and dropped out of contention. WORTHING WINS. The second race was decided over six and a half furlongs, and it saw Worthing defeat a band of cheaper sprinters. With Ronald Nash at the reins, Worthing, owned by A. J. Halliwell, took the lead from Little Duke on the turn and, though he was never able to get very far away from his nearest rivals, he stuck to his guns ong enough to score by a neck. Nim moved up in the stretch to be second, while Eva R. ran third. Then came Little Duke to show the way home to the others. The well-backed Calculator was placed in close quarters on the turn and, after his rider eased him back, the cod could not threaten again. Some better grade two-year-olds provided the contention in the third at three-quarters and the winner was the Le Mar Stock Farms Matchup, ridden by Hemy Hauer. The colt performed as part of an entry with Midair and this youngster finished third, Street Arab separating the two. Matchup failed to display his usual early turn of speed, but he got going in the last quarter and was up near the end to earn a nose decision over Street Arab. The latter might have been able to reverse the order of finish, but for losing ground entering the stretch. As it was, he took second place four lengths before Midair, which, in turn, won third honors a neck before Montsin. Wallace Leishman, who rode the favorite, American Byrd, pulled up his mount soon after the start, when he was struck by what the rider thinks was a plate and, of course, the horse had no chance thereafter. After the race Leishman was nursing a badly swollen left eye. He canceled his remaining mounts. FAVORITE BEATEN. The favorite players received a jolt in the fourth race, decided over a mile and seventy yards, when Wilda, on which the crowd centered its play, went lame and finished far back in the ruck. The winner was Mrs. L. V. Bellews Gay May, which came from a long way back to be in front by a length and a half at the end. The Hare, which had been a strong factor from the beginning, was second to complete the distance, with Rock Sally running third. Mo-set all the pace here, but she began to tire after reaching the stretch, and finally wound up fifth, fourth money going to Miamba Girl. The winner, ridden by Paul Ryan, paid almost 9 to 1 in the mutuels. Besides Wilda, another to pull up lame was Army Banners.
