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CRETE DOUBLE ,016 ; Popular Combination Play Pays Off in Four Figures. Second Big "Double" in Consecutive , Days — Polly Feu and Overplay Make Up Combination. CRETE, 111., June 23.— For the second 1 straight day a "Daily Double" pay-off run-j - j ning into four figures was displayed on the ! totalizator board at Lincoln Fields this afternoon. - Yesterday the backers of Fair Volta i and Great Bear received ,826 in this combination - play, and today those who supported 1 Mrs. J. L. Heddes Polly Feu, winner of the 2 second race, and F. H. Carpenters Over- " j ! play, winner of the third, were rewarded to 3 the extent of ,016 for the customary 2 investment. The individual mutuel return on 1 Polly Feu was 1, while Overplay paid 1 : 2.60 for . In racing to victory by a neck, Overplay, , j ridden by Robert Montgomery, came from j far back to defeat eleven other rivals at t seven furlongs. Boston Sound was second, 1, Fly Time third and the favorite, Rhett, next. :. The race was marred by a poor start, for r three of the contestants were out of the e j I running with the break. Tics Amigos threw J J i a stifle. Black Peter attempted to wheel and was pulled up, and Col. Julian was little better than left. RHETT F. FLATTERS BACKERS. Rhett flattered his backers by showing the e way in the early furlongs by a big margin. [. ; : On the stretch turn he was five lengths in a front of his nearest rival, Boston Sound. [, ; ; and a furlong from the wire he still had an n advantage of two lengths. Then he began to 0 ; ; tire and Boston Sound enjoyed a lead until 1 Overplay, far back in the pack for more than a I ! half the distance, came along to settle the e ■ issue. In taking second place, Boston Sound i finished a length and one-half before Fly y j Time, with Rhett another three lengths back. ;. I j The track was heavy for todays racing, r but the weather was splendid and a good-sized j_ crowd was out to view the semi-final j j program. Eugene White, a recent arrival from De- !" troit, rode the winner of the first race, a ; j dash at six furlongs, which went to W. E. : | Snyders Night Mist. This daughter of | r Naasak did not appear to be able to untrack ; herself the first half mile, but she rallied J : I well thereafter, and was up near the end, I to score by a head. The first five horses Qnder the wire were lapped on each other, . | with Paulson second, Pay Check third, Well jj Right fourth and Intrip next. GETS UP NEAR END. Mrs. J. L. Heddes Polly Feu, a three-year- i ! old filly, which has started only twice before e ■ j | in her life, left the maiden class when she " ! turned back eleven others her own age in i j i the second race at seven furlongs. Making ■ up many lengths in the last quarter, the daughter of Pot au Feu forced her way yt : i forward between horses near the end, to get up in the last stride for a nose victory. She | I was handled by Mike Caffarella, and those e who supported her in the mutuels received d 1 for . Maskillo, which looked like a j j winner a sixteenth from the wire, finished MCOnd, with Swiftsport third and Silver v s I Braid next. Swiftsport, returning to the e race* after an absence of four years, flat-tered - : those who supported him confidently, . j by showing the way to the last eighth, and j ! then he appeared to hang, to enable Mas-killo ._ " i and finally Polly Feu to pass him. j I j CYNTHIA FAIR GRADUATES. ! Making the first start of her career, r Cynthia Fair, owned by the partnership of ,f Jones and Ramsey, beat nine other two-year-olds in the fourth race. The juvenile daughter !_ of For Fair and Cynthia Grey followed Bob Nights pace to the stretch and then, under the handling of Alfred Robertson, took command herself to win by two lengths. Bob Night tired badly in the stretch and finished : well back of the leaders, second honors i-1 going to Trysak and third to Spanish hi Belle. The fifth race, at a mile and styled the •es Prairie Avenue Purse, saw Joe Binstocks Isolene score her second straight triumph h under the handling of T. P. Martin. The ie victory would have been her third in a row w but for her having been disqualified a few days ago, after finishing in front. Isolene lC! took the lead soon after the start and never .,. was headed. Martin did a good job of rating „ his mount in front and though she showed jj some signs of weakening near the end, Martin kept her going long enough to get the ie decision by a little less than a length. i The sixth race, another of six furlongs, Sl ; saw A. Webbs Baranca get home in front with Leonard Wilson at the reins. Never !r i far back, the Webb gelding responded to ° urging in the final quarter, forged to the * front a furlong from the wire and continued on to score by a length. Huffy was badly y r outrun early here, but began to move up [P after about three-eighths and closed gamely y to be second, with third money falling to the l favorite, Sky Cloud. The latter made the pace and was two lengths in front turning * into the stretch, but then he began to falter and wound up four lengths behind the runner-up. 1_
