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DOUBLE PAYS ,826.00 Great Bear and Fair Volta Winning Combination at Crete. Predicate Awarded First Money in Main Event After Disqualification of Potranco — Showery Weather. CRETE, 111., June 22.— A daily double combination of Great Bear and Fair Volta, which paid ,826.00 for , and the disquali- fication of Potranco, featured a rainy after- noon of sport at Lincoln Fields. Through the disqualification of the Lex- brook Stables Potranco, which finished in front by a head, Predicate, a two-year-old, racing under the silks of Hyman Friedberg and Edwin Axton, took top honors in the Arrow Brook Farm Purse. Potranco was disqualified for carrying out Predicate in the stretch, and the Lexbrook geldings rider, Warren Yarberry, was fined 0 and suspended for the remainder of the meeting for his doubtful bit of strategy. Ernest Hanke, who was astride Predicate, received a similar fine and suspension earlier in the afternoon, for foul riding. With Potranco placed last by order of the stewards, those who received second, third and fourth monies were respectively, Coop- erstown, Little Ruler and Wise Ally. They were the only other contestants, Downy Pillow having been withdrawn because of the muddy condition of the track. PREDICATE CLOSE UP. Predicate was in closest pursuit of Pot-rancos pace from the beginning, and never more than a half length separated the two. Entering the stretch, Potranco carried Predicate extremely wide, and continued to carry him out in the drive. But, for this, the Friedberg and Axton juvenile probably would have mastered his rival. Cooperstown was in third place all the way and finished four lengths behind the leaders, with Little Ruler just a nose back of him at the end. Wise Ally was a distant trailer, after the first quarter. The time for the five furlongs was 1:03%, a figure registered on a track that had been made muddy by a brisk shower just after the running of the fourth race. Until that time, the course had been heavy. The threatening weather held down the size of the crowd somewhat, but still the attendance was good. The veteran Polycletus, carrying the colors of Clyde Troutt, scored his ninth victory thirteen starts this year by capturing the Matteson Purse, six furlongs sprint offeree! as the sixth race. With Irving Anderson the reins, the eight-year-old gelding won just as he scored most of his other victories— by taking the lead soon after the start and showing his heels to his rivals the rest the way. Polycletus, the favorite in the field d of seven, showed the way by a good margin n throughout and in completing the distance :e in 1:16 he won with two lengths to spare. SHANDON VICTORY. The Chicago-owned Shandon Farm, maintained i- by P. A. and R. J. Nash, supplied the ie winner of the six furlongs opener in Fair l» Rock, a three-year-old daughter of Rock k Man. After breaking a little sluggishly she ie — Continued on thirty-ninth page. = i 1 i ] - ] ■ j • , | | f l | t t I • | r I J 1 ! ! - ! j 7 - e - y e i y 5, n , ;» n r t e -- •s in n ■ 8 at it 4 - d of if ll j ; ! 1 1 I ] 5 J J. S h it if d Ih c I j ; I I i x I » £ I ■ ■ I ■ ■ a s ■ *■ * r E Jj J ? J1 in b DOUBLE PATC ,826.00 Continued from first page. rushed up on the outside to reach the lead in the first quarter, drew out on the turn and held her advantage to the end for a popular score. She bore out badly in the run through the stretch under jockey War- , • ren Yarberry, but still was good enough to win by a little less than two lengths. Lady . , Wo was in closest pursuit of the Shandon 1 filly after the first quarter and lasted to 1 1 take second honors, a neck before Egyptian Belle. The juvenile filly Great Bear, owned by I Mrs. Emil Denemark, also of Chicago, graduated from the maiden ranks in the second ] race when she turned back seven other two- j year-olds at five furlongs. The daughter of Blackwood, ridden by Ernest Hanke. forced Osofrees pace to the last quarter and then, . taking command herself, continued well to , score by a length and one-half. An outsider , in the betting, she paid 1.40 for . Oso- , free was through after her early display of speed and finally wound up last. Second money went to Lambeth, the favorite, with Crusheen making up ground in the drive to be third. King Black finished fourth. s After Great Bears surprise victory, an even longer-priced horse got home in front J in the third event, to make possible a "Daily Double- pay-off of ,826. The winner here was H. A. Ottos Fair Volta, ridden by Leon- ! ard Wilson, and the mutuel return on her chances alone was 1.60 for . FAIR VOLTA IN UPSET. c Fair Volta, scoring her first victory of the year, was outrun early but made up : ground fast in the run through the stretch to get home in front by a head. Valdina . was the favorite here, but the best he could j do was run second as El Juez, tiring badly I in the final eighth after having set all the pace, ran third. Getabouts ridder, Ernest Hanke, was held guilty of carrying out Val- J dina in the stretch and was fined 0 and j suspended for the rest of the meeting. The fourth race, another six furlongs sprint, resulted in an emphatic victory for v Russell Jewetts Nedrow, handled by Mike i Caffarella. Determined was second, Just j Arrived third and My Grandson fourth, with j the favorite, Smuggled In, far back. Ned-row, which won one other race this year but none in 1937 or 1938, raced into a contending j position on the turn, collared the pacemak-ing Determined inside the last eighth and « drew out to score by two and one-half lengths. Determined, which led over the r early furlongs by a good margin, gave way badly near the end and had to be content with second money, a length and one-half before Just Arrived. The latter was blocked the stretch and except for this may have been considerably closer. j S. Bryant Ott purchased the contract Mrs. a M. Hubbard held on Timothy Francis Sullivan, sixteen-year-old Chicago boy. Ott 1 hopes to develop the boy into a jockey and, o he makes good, will launch him on a sad- s die career next spring. Sullivan is said to C have bright prospects. r
