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JOHNNIE J. VICTORIOUS Second Straight Victory for Miss Hardins Recent Claim. . Accounts for Viscaya Purse After Balking at Start One of Best Juveniles at Miami. MIAMI, Fla., April 1. Miss C. Hardins Johnnie J. balked and dug his feet into the track and had to be led to the start of the Viscaya Purse, half-mile dash for juveniles that featured the next to last Saturday of sport at Tropical Park by the pony boy. But nobody led him to the end of the race, the son of Rolls Royce setting his own running and winning by a length and a half over Maemere Farms Maetran. The score was the second straight for the youngster, which was claimed out of his last for ,500, ranking as the greatest bargain of the Florida racing season. Off his two recent races, Johnnie J. appears to be about the best two-year-old which has shown in this section this winter. He has a great burst of speed and he is game. After streaking to the front a few jumps from the start, Darby Dienst raced up to him and he pulled off again, winning without undue urging in :47. It is probable he could have gone much faster had he been forced to do so, for he was toying with his field nearly all the way. A. G. Tarns Diav-olo Cliff, coupled in the betting with Kai Hi; was third, half a length off the runner-up and a length in front of the tiring Darby Dienst. The victor was the choice at slightly more than even money. He was the fourth favorite in five races to get home on top. BALKS IN POST PARADE. After balking on the post parade, Johnnie J. was a wild horse at the gate, delaying the start. But once he was, off he was off flying and he drew away to a three-length lead as they made the short run to the far turn. Ashcroft did not urge him around the turn and here Darby Dienst flew up to challenge the son of Rolls Royce, At the stretch, however, Johnnie J. shook Darby Dienst off, widened out to a daylight advantage again. Down the final lane Ashcroft was looking back for competition. He saw that his mount had killed off Darby Dienst at the sixteenth post and did not urge him down Continued on twenty-sixth page. JOHNNIE J. VICTORIOUS Continued from first page. the final yards, for when Maetran swept up to make a bid the Hardin two-year-old had the race, .safely won. Maetran was third, as Darby Dienst went after the winner and came fast under urging in the final sixteenth when the latter was faltering. Diavolo Cliff, the horse which was generally rated Johnny J.s most formidable rival, ran a good race, but got going too late, surrendering the place award by half a length. Darby Dienst was dead tired at the end but those behind him were even more fatigued. MID-SUMMER HEAT PREVAILS. Midsummer heat prevailed for the sport, which was about as formful as any that has been held at the meeting, marked from the inaugural by long shot victories. A good crowd was out but the handle was running below that of the previous week-end programs since most of the larger spending tourists have left Miami by now. Weston Adams Whooper started the favorite players off with a winning ticket as Eddie Robart lashed him home a short head in advance of Flying Orphan, which sported the -silks of Tom Trulis, genial track kitchen concessionaire. His victory did not come without a claim of foul from Schmidl, who rode the runner-up. The winner went up on the heels of the runner-up in the stretch, but the stewards quickly disallowed the claim, holding Flying Orphan was beaten the time the trouble occurred. Flying Orphan was one of the extreme outsiders in the betting. Paul Codds Onrush took the third award, a length and a half off the battling leaders, and some five lengths in advance of The Wink. The winner finished out. the mile and seventy yards in 1:44 flat. SMALL "DAILY DOUBLE" PAYOFF. Another favorite got home on top as Time Interval carried Phil Biebers silks to victory under Euclid LeBlanc in the three-quarters second, completing a "daily double" which paid only 8.90. J. L. Wildes Show Up finished second, a length and a half off the runner-up and a head in advance of Oaktree Stables Stavka. Sure Cloud wound up fourth in the field of a dozen. Time Interval broke fast but was taken back to third place as Sure Cloud and Rock High went out to set the pace. When the leaders began to shorten stride around the turn for home, LeBlanc drove the favorite to the lead. The Zacaweista filly gained steadily down the stretch, leaving no doubt that she was best. Latang and McKays Epitaph, a veteran son of Epinard, made it "two in a row as he won the three-quarters third in a hard drive, with Tomara Stables Gold Knightess. After a head and head duel that lasted the entire length of the stretch, R. L. Vedder had the victor a nose clear at the end.
