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AT PLAY AND SAILOR BEWARE 1 Winners of Hollis Claiming Stakes and Appleton Memorial Cup. Head Margin Separates At Play and Johns * Heir in the Six-Furlong Dash — Sailor Beware Easy Winner in Chase. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 24.— At Play, in a driving finish, was victorious in the Hollis Claiming Stakes, and Sailor Beware easily won the Charles L. Appleton Memorial Cup Steeplechase, the twin features of todays Belmont Park program that attracted a good-sized mid-week crowd. Mrs. Clyde Phillips colt captured the Hollis and ,350 by defeating nine other high-priced sprinting platers. Johns Heir, representing Mrs. Clara Lyon, was second, and A. G. C. Sages Mahdi third. The Greentree Stables representative galloped in front all the way in the Appleton, with second honors going to Gwladys Whitneys Brant and third to K. N. Gilpins Buck Langhorne. Closing steadily in the final furlong under hard riding from Basil James, At Play overtook Johns Heir and Mahdi in the final strides. The four-year-old son of Chance Play and At Sundown gained a final advantage of a head as Johns Heir beat out Mahdi by a neck. Three, lengths back of the leaders came Bill Farnsworth, the favorite. NEAR RECORD. The Hollis was staged over the Widener Course and At Play completed the six furlongs in 1:10, just three-fifths slower than Balkos record and second best time in the six-year history of the event* This score gave jockey James a double. Mahdi had the most speed from the beginning and was carefully rated by "Sonny" Workman while coming to the inner rail after breaking from an outside position. Johns Heir moved up in the final quarter to join Mahdi and succeeded in outgaming the latter a few strides out. At Play came with a great rush in the last furlong and was not to be denied. Up until the time he was called upon for everything he had, At Play had been rated within a few lengths of the pacemaker. Bill Farnsworth had no excuses as he was in the first flight all the way. THIRD VICTORY. When Sailor Beware carried the silks of Mrs. Payne Whitneys Greentree Stable to an easy victory in the Charles L. Appleton Memorial Steeplechase, over the short course, it was the third victory for the silks in the history of the prize to which Mrs. ! J Whitney presents a gold cup. In 1927 Jolly Roger, one of the greatest of American fencers won for Mrs. Whitney and the other of her campaigners to score was Fairfield in 1929. Sailor Beware was winner of the International Steeplechase Handicap earlier in the meeting and his only other start of the year. This renewal of the Appleton carried a net value of ,575 to the winner, besides the gold trophy.
