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BOBS BOYS BY NECK i .Gets Up in Final Strides to Beat Dunade in What Cheer Handicap. andilly Van Nuys Outlasts Gallant Stroke "by Head Dead Heat Marks Finish of Eighth Race. PAWTUCKET, R. I., Nov. 17. The "What Cheer Handicap featured the local progx-am -this afternoon, which was conducted under cloudy skies and over a sloppy racing strip. The What Cheer, an overnight event, was contested over the one mile and seventy yards distance and attracted six entries. Cosgrave Stables Bobs Boys, coupled with IMona Bell, got up to win the event by a neck over Fanfare Farms Dunade. Billy Van Nuys, "Broadway Bill" Gallaghers starter, saved third place by a head over Gallant Stroke, while Mona Bell, the other end of the entry, finished last in the six-j horse race, a length and a half back of Pumpgun. Gallant Stroke went out to make the early running, with Mona Bell closest in pursuit. They raced lapped on one another, with Dunade next in line and Bobs Boys only another head back. Rounding the final turn Bobs Boys began to improve his position on the inside and it appeared that the entry ! might finish one-two, as Mona Bell was also moving up steadily. But as they hit the quarter post Mona Bell was pinched back land the responsibility of scoring rested in Bobs Boys. Ken McCombs went to a furious drive and the In Memoriam gelding moved Tup willingly once Dunade, who had taken the lead from Gallant Stroke, began to drop back. The two raced lapped on one another the entire final three-sixteenths, with Bobs ;Boys getting a decision at the finish. ! FAVORITE SCORES. The winning effort of the Cosgrave campaigner marked the third success for the favorites. He finished out the mile and seventy yards in 1:44. i The finish of the eighth race resulted in the dead heat between Jerdan, carrying the colors of J. Thorwald and Sun Way from the R. C. Hanna stable. Sun Way appeared all over the winner entering the stretch, but I Jerdan, coming fast, earned the dead heat in the final strides. , Danny Sullivan who won the second race t yesterday with Takus, came back this af ter-I noon to win the opening event with the I nine-year-old The Turk gelding, Irenes Bob. j The veteran, always showing a liking for a sloppy track, found conditions much to his fancy this afternoon. He took the lead in the first few yards of the running and led , to the finish, but was being hard pressed at the finish to defeat the favorite, L. E. Ogles t Miney Myerson. Izaak Walton, another sloppy track performer, was third, a length and a half off the runner-up. TWO DOMINATE. There was never anything to the running except the first three liorses. They domi-, nated the running throughout and finished , in the positions they assumed early in the running. The winner finished out in 1:13. Boston Lad, favored by a more energetic ride than he received last outing, had little difficulty in defeating the plater juveniles that made up the field for the six furlongs of the second event. The finish found the Bostonian colt with an advantage of three lengths over Happy Picnic. Raceaway, the Continued on twentu sixth page. BOBS BOYSBY NECK Continued from first page. early pacemaker, lasted to save the show from Taut. Jockey Maschek worked his way up steadily on the outside with the winner drawing out fast after reaching the stretch. Distract, a five-year-old gelding, by Distraction, which races for R. C. Hanna, was a driving winner in the third, another dash of six furlongs. R. H. News Grand Light, after making most of the early pace, finished second,, a half-length off the winner, and two and a half lengths to the good over Lady Sara. Wulfstan finished fourth. Dis- tract "went the distance in 1:13. ! W. E. Charles Shimmering, a bay filly byl Peanuts, graduated from the maiden ranks winning the fourth event, at six furlongs, by two and a half lengths. The long shot, Mr. i Hyland, finished second, three lengths to the good of Lilting, with Hasty Sue, a first-time starter and well backed, finishing fourth. The winner finished out in 1:13, marking the second consecutive victory for favorites. She paid the short odds of 7 to 5. VETERAN WINS. Old Whipper Cracker, a ten-year-old gelding which races in the livery of E. A. Mc-Mann, found another race track made to order for him today and, as usual, came from last to first. He finished two and a half lengths in front of Happy Road. Gold Cross, a recent winner at the meeting, was only a head off the runner-up. Miss Pecan was fourth. First it was Royal Flight that got to the front. He made the pace for a half mile, after which Gold Cross moved to the command. But his advantage was of brief duration, as Whipper Cracker, which had been weaving his way through the field, moved up to take command at the eighth pole. He drew away at will from that point on. Another favorite got home in front in the running of the one mile and a sixteenth seventh race. Mere Blaze, a four-year-old gelding by Mere Play, racing for J. W. Barnes, carried apprentice C. Stronsky to a front-running victory. The Mere Play gelding took the lead at the first stride and was never endangered for the entire way. Day-tonian and Bonnie Buzz battled along far in advance of the others for the entire trip, with Bonnie Buzz being a neck to the good of Daytonian at the finish. The latter was six lengths in front of the next rival, Hasty Wire. 4
