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CLODION FIRST BY A NECK Scores His Second Stake Victory on Successive Saturdays at Suffolk. Runs Mile in 1:39 in Sloppy Going to Annex ,000 Added Bunker Hill Handicap Before Crowd of 25,000. BOSTON, Mass., June 17.— Out of the gate with a great lunge and then receiving a strong ride from jockey Joey Rosen in the stretch, when he was a tired performer, R. A. Moores Clodion scored his second stake victory on successive Saturdays as he won the ,000 added Bunker Hill Handicap here before 25,000 enthusiasts. As he won the mile event in the time of 1:39 in the sloppy going, Clodion showed that his sprint triumph a week ago was no fluke. He had no trouble at the start in this event, but he needed a great ride by Rosen to outlast Mrs. E. Graham Lewis Pagliacci by a neck in the stretch drive, with D. A. Woods In-fidox third and E. R. Bradleys Bootless fourth. PUBLIC CHOICE. Clodion was the favorite in the betting with the Mrs. Emil Denemark entry of War Minstrel and Blind Eagle second choice. But the entry never figured after the race to the first turn, for at that point Clodion, Infidox and Pagliacci were the ones in front and they never yielded their positions to any of the others. At the five-eighths pole, Infidox was the leader, but Clodion and Pagliacci began to make their moves, Bobby Merritt on Pagliacci watching Clodion. The two went out front, with Pagliacci on the outside. From then on it became a duel between these two, first one and then the other leading by a neck or head, but never by any more. They came around the turn for home and into the stretch as if locked together and, as a matter of fact, both were tired. Yet their jockeys rallied the mounts and kept them going, so that none of the others had a chance. At the sixteenth, it looked j as if Pagliacci would win, but Clodion had I just a mite more left and won the ,610 net ! money.
