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. FAVORITES DEFEATED Choices Fail to Score in First Five Races at Fairmount Park. Dr. McLarney Wins the Fifth Race by a Head From Miss Webb and Returns Backers 6 Mutuel. COLLINSVILLE, 111., May 10.— The rout of the favorites at Fairmount Park this afternoon furnished some very interesting and highly contested races, long shots scoring over the publics choices. Although form players were unable to select winners in the first four races, the brand of sport offered thrilled the good crowd in attendance. The public cheered the riding performance of jockey Don Scurlock, who booted home the winners of the first two events on the card. They also welcomed enthusiastically the fine ride jockey T. P. Martin put up on Beau Thor to capture the fourth race. Martin brought Beau Thor to the finish a half length in front of Galeco, which, in turn, held the slight margin of a head advantage over Polante Seth at the end. Devilish Nick finished fourth. VICTOR BY A HEAD. In the fifth race, the best of the afternoons events, Dr. McLarney, which was opposed by eleven other sprinters, continued the downfall of the favorites when the aging son of Nut Cracker, which races for J. J. and J. R. Porter, flashed across the finish a head before Miss Webb. Third Place was the portion of Nim, which finished a length behind. Dr. McLarney, which was accounting for his second victory of the year, came from behind to take the hard-earned triumph. Holders of winning mutuel tickets received 6.00, - the largest winning pay-off of the current meeting. Justification, coupled in the mutuel field and overlooked in the wagering, scored a surprise victory in the third race. The J. A. Kinard, Jr., racer, in scoring his first vic- Continued on twenty-first page. FAVORITESJEFEATED Continued from first page. tory of the year, was a half length before Maymiss at the finish. Over Rose wore down Elect Jessie, the favorite, in the final strides to take the show award. Holders of "Daily Double" tickets on Justification and Able Abe were rewarded with 01.40. CLOSE FOUGHT FINISH. The Thomas Speed Camera was called upon to decide the winner of the five and one-half furlongs first event and showed Ouray a scant nose before Idle Worker. The Pelican, the early pacemaker, bore out badly in the final quarter, but held on gamely to garner the minor award of the purse from He Devil. Off Time, favorite for the sprint, made a bold bid for the lead approaching the final furlong, but flattened out in the drive, finishing sixth. Jockey Don Scurlock scored with the second of his two winning mounts in as many races when he piloted Able Abe to victory over Jockana in the second race, at five and a half furlongs. Scurlock, the riding sensation at Fair-mount Park last year, displayed the form that placed him in prominence during the 1938 season. The field was away to a good start, with Jockana reaching the fore and setting the pace soon after the field got away, and with Able Abe in closest pursuit. Scurlock bided his time with the Howell colorbearer and allowed Jockana to maintain her lead until the final three-sixteenths. Calling upon Able Abe, which quickly responded, Scurlock sent the six-year-old son of Witchmount across the finish a half length before Jockana. The latter was some two lengths in front of Dixie Dora at the end.
