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K JFS TWILIGHT CARD TO OPEN1PP RACING SEASON WHIRLAWAY ASSERTS SUPlftORITY ONCE AGAIN DRIFTS OUT IN STRETCH BUT STILL PROVES BEST BESTMioland Mioland Trails Calumet Star by Two and Quarter Lengths While Hash Is Third in Belmont Race RaceNEW NEW YORK N Y May 20 Whirlaway conqueror of the lands leading threeyear olds in the Kentucky Derby and the Preak ness went out of his age division at Bel ¬ mont Park this afternoon to register an easy and impressive victory over C S How ¬ ards Mioland and other luminaries of the handicap ranks in the mile and a sixteenth of the Hemy of Navarre Purse Wendall Eads drove the Calumet whirl ¬ wind through the pacemaker Your Chance and the rail at the top of the stretch and moved off to register by two and a quarter lengths at the direct expense of Mioland as the latter Californian beat Greentree Sta ¬ bles Hash a neck for the place Four lengths farther back the pacemaking Your Chance easily lead Ringie for fourth in this small but brilliant field of five attracted in a 2500 overnight purse purseThough Though Whirlaway was essaying to give weight on the scale to all but Mioland un ¬ der an impost of 109 pounds which included one overweight he was made a topheavy public choice and paid just 350 for 2 Whirlaway was drifting out from the eighth pole home and Mioland followed him out the pair finishing closer to the outside than the inside boundary of the track but he was good enough to win unextended in 143 for the mile and a sixteenth on a fast track trackUpon Upon returning to the winners enclosure the Chicagoan would not have blown out a candle candleLONDON LONDON TOWN CHASE WINNER The Henry of Navarre was worth just 1650 to the winner but overshadowed the Appleton Memorial Cup Steeplechase which was the days stake feature in general inter ¬ est F Ambrose Clarks London Town after an absence from competition since 1937 re ¬ peated in the Appleton and so garnered 3375 Sanford Stud Farms Arch Hero was second and Pete Bostwick booted his favo ¬ rite Sussex into third place behind London Town who tied Fairmounts 340 course mark markThe The magic in the names of such as Whirl away Mioland Hash and Your Chance com ¬ bined with perfect bright May weather found a gathering of 16264 on hand for the Tuesday offerings The crowd nearly dou ¬ bled the 8767 present the same afternoon in 1940 Following the running of the Henry of Navarre it was indicated that Whirl away may start again Friday in the Peter Pan Handicap Early in the day there was some sparring between the connections of Whirlaway and Mioland but both stayed in the race and so the thousands they drew to the track were not disappointed disappointedWarren Warren Wright was not on hand to witness his prides latest conquest incidentally being at Calumet Farm in Kentucky but he ex ¬ pects to be present Friday FridayWhirlaway Whirlaway and Mioland were accompanied to the gate by their stable ponies and Whirl away was given an enthusiastic reception by byContinued Continued on thirtieth nage WHIRLAWAYSHOWSWAY TO OLDER OPPONENTS OPPONENTSDrifts Drifts Out in Stretch but Still Proves Master of Mioland and Hash in Belmont Park Offering OfferingContinued Continued from first najre najrethe the huge offday attendance present to see this newest star of the turf turfThe The five were well behaved in George Cas sidys gate and broke on the same stride Whirlaway remained loser up than usual as he went away under wraps the first furlong Then Richards let Your Chance move off to a lead of a length and Ringie who essayed to go along with him was quickly shaken off Eads did not hurry Whirlaway through the back stretch and Arcaro evidently convinced the colt he rode in the Derby and Preakness was the one to whip took Hash back and rated along just outside him himThis This strategy not only conserved Hash for the supreme moment when Whirlaway would begin his run but also prevented the coljt from thinking of going out Around the turn Your Chance still was dusting along on a lead of a couple of lengths and Hash had Mioland closest to him But as Hash and Whirlaway started closing up Haas pulled to the outside with Mioland and let the two through between him and the rail railWhirlaway Whirlaway beat Hash to the hole between Your Chance and the rail at the hot corner and in a twinkling had the Widener horse beaten and was in front and moving away Hash followed him through the knothole on the rail and inaugurated his run At the eighth pole Whirlaway started out and Arcaro drew his whip on Hash Mioland followed Whirlaway toward the outside and thats the way they finished with Whirlaway leading the others and galloping while Hash was driving but Mioland beat him a head for the place without any pressure from Haas HaasFIRST FIRST START SINCE 1937 1937F F Ambrose Clarks London Town making his first start since 1937 the year he won the Charles L Appleton Memorial Cup equalled Fairmounts course record for about two miles over a dozen hedges when putting in the distance in 340 to repeat his con ¬ quest in the stake stakeFrank Frank C Bellhouse had the mount on London Town in his second Appleton tri ¬ umph and followed the pace of Arch Hero from the Sanford Stud most closely to the turn into the front field where he went to the front to win by a couple of lengths after a duel over the last hedge in which he was riding Arch Hero close So close in fact that W N Ball on the Sanford horse lodged an objection which was not allowed allowedSussex Sussex carrying his owner Pete Bostwick finished third five lengths farther back while Thomas Hitchcocks Naruna was fourth A field of nine went to the starting point on the back field but three of these did not finish Tarbrush lost his rider Bal zaretti at the eighth while both Chucka tuck and Invader fell at the eleventh They were far back at the time and none of those involved in the mishaps appeared seriously injured Argentine stablemate of Tarbrush and who finished the course came back lame however The course seemed hard as the time would indicate indicateArch Arch Hero proved to be by far the fastest fencer in the field and blazed the trial over the first eleven hedges to the top of the front field Invader and London Town rac ¬ ing side by side in second place were half a dozen lengths away through the first mile and then Invader dropped out of it and Lon ¬ don Town made his move entering the straight
