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FAIR SEX OUT EN MASSE FOR FAIRMOUNT LADIES DAY CARD CARDSenator Senator E A Martin Furnishes Winners of Daily Double Races RacesCOLLINSVILLE COLLINSVILLE 111 June 3 Following the first dark Monday of the current meeting the Fairmount Park Jockey Club resumed racing this afternoon at Fairmount Park under threatening conditions Inter ¬ mittent showers fell shortly before noon and continued until an hour before the start of the first race with a threat of rain re ¬ maining as the horses came on the track for the start of the program It was the first Ladies Day of the meeting and de ¬ spite threatening conditions many of the fair sex helped swell the crowd which was estimated at 5000 The early rains failed to change track conditions the course being fast for the early part of the eight races which were made up of horses from the claiming division divisionIncidentally Incidentally all eight races had capacity fields fieldsDEAD DEAD HEAT IN OPENER OPENERThe The first dead heat of the meeting came with the running of the first race when I J Killions Iron Will the favorite and F E Waldrons French Bread second choice to the winner finished on even terms after five and a half furlongs Martha O fin ¬ ished third three lengths to the rear of the winners After permitting the leaders and especially Harvest Moon to show signs of tiring Iron Will was taken to the front with a rush entering the stretch by Warren Cor nay As the Killion colorbearer made his move R J Jones called on French Bread who came down the middle of the track and nipped Iron Will on the wire It took the judges and stewards more than twelve min ¬ utes to determine the winner several photo photoContinued Continued on fortieth page FAIR SEX OUT EN MASSE FOR FAIRMOUNT LADIES DAY CARD CARDSenator Senator E A Martin Furnishes Winners of Daily Double Races RacesContinued Continued fron first page pagegraphs graphs being called for before the officials decided that the event was a dead heat heatAnother Another photograph finish came with the second race when Lafayette Girl a Louisi ¬ anabred daughter of Michigan Boy owned by State Senator E A Martin of Louisiana got up in the last strides to gain a neck vic ¬ tory over the tiring Bookman who held a commanding lead to the final sixteenth when he tired rapidly Oddesa Romeo came from far back to gain third money The winner coupled in the field was handled by Rob ¬ ert Montgomery also a native of Louisiana LouisianaThe The silks of Senator Martin again proved successful in the third race second part of the Daily Double whica paid two holders of tickets on the Martin pair 798 when Mihayson another Louisianabred son of Michigan Boy and also handled by Bobby Montgomery and also another field horse got home by more than a length margin over Squaw Jane Rolls Day and nine other threeyearolds at five and a half furlongs Racing Semlika into defeat after three eighths the Martin representative disposed of Rolls Day in the stretch and had enough left to stall off the late challenge of Squaw Jane
