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OUR CREST SCORES FOR NIX Favorite Hard Pressed at Boston After Setting Pace. Hardy New Englanders Brave a Strong Atlantic Wind to Watch Sport— Glenbroom Earns Purse. BOSTON, Mass., May 16.— Mrs. J. A. Nixs Our Crest, the favorite in the betting, scored a front-running victory in the Nantasket j Claiming Purse, which featured another chilly afternoon of sport at the Suffolk Downs grounds of the Eastern Racing Association. Euclid LeBlanc was riding hard at the end of the sprint to have the Phara-mond II. mare slightly ahead of Paul Kelleys fast-closing Shes Right, which pursued the winners pace from start to finish. Mrs. F. Rossiters Marson took the third award, some two lengths off the battling leaders. It was a close finish for the show, with Marson gaining the decision by a nose over Pumpgun. Our Crest made virtually all of her own pace to finish out in 1:13 flat. A wind with teeth in it was again blowing off the ocean and directly into the faces of shivering racegoers. However, hardy New Englanders were out in force to see the eight events on the second day of Suffolk Downs long season. OUTBREAKS WINNER. Shes Right outbroke Our Crest in the features print, but her lead was shortlived. Our Crest swept up on the rail to take the van by more than a length before a quarter-mile had been completed. Shes Right went after her doggedly as they went down the back stretch, but Our Crest gained slightly in the run to the far turn, showing the way by a length and a half at this juncture. Silk Mask was third to the turn, then dropped back and was replaced by Marson. Our Crest still held to a length and a half advantage at the head of the stretch, but j just past the eighth post. Ashcroft went to work in earnest on Shes Right and was steadily decreasing the distance that separated her from the leader in the final sixteenth. However, she was unable to get up in time. Pumpgun, far in the ruck early, finished very fast once he got to running, but began running too late. Hal Price Headleys Third Covey bore out in the stretch but was rapidly straightened out by Ralph Eccard, and went on to win the opening four and a half furlongs dash for juveniles by a length and a half over Chief Counsel. Side Arm was third, half a length off the runner-up and Town Prince finished fourth. The Supremus colt completed the distance in :544,£. SUN ARBOR WINS. Mrs. M. R. Lewis Sun Arbor, ridden by W. L. Taylor, drew away in the stretch to win the six furlongs second event by two lengths over Eye High. Rosemain, despite going extremely wide, managed to land third, a head in front of Sunabell. The latter ran a good race. He was off last and had to take the deeper going next to the rail when making his bid in the stretch. Weston Adams Golden Fate made it two in a row as the veteran led all the way under Eddie Robart to take the third event by a length and a half over Bright Sox. Dreel was third, a neck off the runner-up. Fredrick, third most of the distance, tired in the stretch and wound up a distant fourth. Tobe Trotters Glenbroom went into the j lead at the far turn and drew off in the final sixteenth to beat High Tension by a length and a half over the six furlongs of the | fourth event. Lunsford took the third : ! award, a length off the runner-up and half | | a length in advance of Gay World. Sena rode the winner, which completed the journey in 1:12%. H. E. Engers Wise Hildred, the favorite, led throughout the six furlongs distance and held on well in the drive to win the fifth race by half a length over Medway Stables fast-closing Bloomer Girl. The race marked a double for W. L. Taylor, who had guided Sun Arbor home in a previous event. Bright Spot finished third, another half length back, , and Circus Night was a distant fourth after looming as a menacing factor on the turn. j The first disqualification of the meeting • occurred here today in the running of the eighth race when the stewards deprived Mrs. F. C. Dunns Friendly Paul of the winners award when the son of Questionnaire bothered both Mrs. E. Denemarks Royal Bit and Mrs. W. H. Canes Amercup by sweiving badly in front of these two horses as the Mrs. Dunn colt was taking the lead three-sixteenths of a mile from the finish. Coming from behind the leaders around the final turn, Friendly Paul first collided with Royal Bit, knocking that grey filly badly off stride, and then swerved over in front of Amercup, bothering her somewhat. The revised placing put Royal Bit first, Amercup second and Ralph Metcalfs Mr. Brook was awarded third money.
