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HOLTON ES AGAIN Comes From Behind to Win Jacobs Hill Purse by Two Lengths. Son of Osculator Claimed Out of Race by Mrs. J. A. Nix Proud Lass Winner of First Juvenile Race. PAWTUCKET, R. I., April 24 G. H. Coyles Holton scored a convincing victory in the three-quarters Jacobs Hill Purse, which featured a cold and windy day of racing at Narragansett Park this afternoon. At the end of the journey Al Snider had the winner, which closed with a great burst of speed through the final eighth of a mile, two lengths clear of Mrs. M. R. Lewis Sun Arbor. Although Coyle won a race, he lost a horse, Mrs. J. A. Nix taking the winner for ,500. Escalator finished third in the event, a neck off the runner-up, and Ai-Ling was fourth. Snider rode the winner home in the slow time of 1:13. Raceaway made the pace down the back stretch pursued by Sun Arbor. The heavily-backed favorite, General Howes, went to the ,contention at the far turn after a slow start and looked all over a winner as they made the turn for the final drive. However, he was forced to race on the extreme outside of the field and lost a world of ground into the stretch and could not keep up in the final drive. GETS QUICK START. Holton was not off fast. He improved his position gradually down the back stretch, moved fourth at the head of the stretch and then flew by horses in the final sixteenth of a mile under energetic handling from Snider. In the run to the sixteenth pole he went to the front with a rush, and he was being hand ridden in the final stages of the race to win by daylight. Mrs. Danny Sheas Currants, an old favorite among New England racegoers, set most of the pace and drove home by a length in the opening event. D. J. Schneiders Idle Sun finished second after forcing the pace most closely most of the distance. Weston Adams Whooper was a distant third, some three lengths off the runner-up, with High Treason just another head back. Warren Van Tassel, a lad who showed rare form on the West Coast this winter, put up a beautiful front-rating ride on the victor. The time was 1:12. SULLIVAN VICTORY. Col. Danny Sullivan of Texas won a race as Irenes Bob, ridden by the Salem, Mass., lad, Danny Driscoll, carried his silks home in the second event. At the end of the journey the veteran son of The Turk was half a length in advance of Mrs. Merle Simmons Laddie Stone. It was a close finish for second place, with Laddie Stone taking the award by a short head over Mrs. Lyman Brusies Little Mike. Our David was fourth, a length farther back". The winner finished out in 1:13. Little Mike broke in front, with Irenes Bob taking the lead before they went a quarter. This pair were closely lapped, never being more than half a length apart until they were in the final yards of the race. There Bob Wholey drove Laddie Stone up to take the second place award right at the end. rrU TvT Tl J T7M - TT Farm scored in the third, for maiden two-year-old fillies, as Euclid Le Blanc rode Proud Lass home two and a half lengths in advance of Stroube and Collins Air Actress. Willis Sharpe Kilmers Sun Patty, coupled in the betting with Sun Kit, finished third, a length back and a length and a half m front of Top Tier. The latter, a full sister to Top Row, was off very slowly, but closed fast through the stretch. J. Stillmans Nebraska City closed with a cyclonic rush to win the three-quarters fourth event by a nose over Story Time. Story Time appeared to have lasted, but the camera ruled that Nebraska City got up in the last stride of the race. Jessie V. L. finished third, just a head off the battling leaders, and Count Cotton was fourth. Earl Maloney rode the winner, which completed the distance in 1:13.
