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CAPE COD SHOWS WAY HOME TO LITTLE BEANS BEANSGreer Greer Colt Covers Six Furlongs in 110 to Take Commonwealth Handicap Blue Pair Runs Third ThirdBOSTON BOSTON Mass June 14 Turning in the most impressive performance of his career Cape Cod from the string of the Maryland sportsman G C Greer raced to a frontrun ¬ ning victory in the sixth renewal of the Commonwealth Handicap a test exclusively for threeyearolds The son of Bostonian and Little Lie sped over the threequarter mile distance in the sparkling time of 110 Mrs Louise Palladinos Little Beans here ¬ tofore undefeated over the local strip was under a punishing drive as he raced into second place The favorite Blue Pair from the string of Mrs Vera S Bragg an even money choice on the strength of local daz ¬ zling training trials was third The Maple Crest Farms General Jack finished fourth and Bull Brier was last of the company companyCape Cape Cod acquired during the Florida season via the claiming route has improved steadily until at the present he must be con ¬ sidered as one of the top flight threeyear old sprinters sprintersThe The Bostonian colt was ridden by jockey Sterling Young and it brought that capable rider out of a slump for it was the first time in twelve days that the boy had piloted a winner winnerThe The field had no sooner moved into their respective stalls than they were on their way Cape Cod away in stride was soon a length to the good Young took him under slight restraint Near the close of the initial quarter mile General Jack was per ¬ mitted to race to within a neck of the leader Bull Brier was just showing before Blue Pair and Little Beans brought up the rear rearLITTLE LITTLE MATERIAL CHANGE CHANGELeaving Leaving the back stretch the two leaders raced along without any material change Blue Pair was sent to the outside and soon had Blue Brier headed Little Beans was sent to the inside and also started to move up The Maple Crest colt after a halfmile tired from the chase and Little Beans went up to chase closest after the leader The favorite was under punishment but was unable to close any appreciable amount of ground as Moore was driving Little Beans vigorously Cape Cod who had reached the halfmile in 45 was showing no signs of coming back The others were all driv ¬ ing hard Young was working like a beaver on Cape Cod and the Bostonian colt who was responding to each call came to the line with a bit better than a length to spare Little Beans on the inside of the winner was still being driven to the limit as he landed second by the same margin as the winner achieved his score Blue Pair was never in a position seriously to en ¬ danger the first two as he was under a drive driveCape Cape Cod by winning the Commonwealth added 4350 to his earnings the winners portion of the 5000 added prize and brought his winnings for the year to 9925 9925In In view of the improved performance of Cape Cod over his most recent outing the stewards have ordered trainer R B Archer and jockey Eddie Smith to report to them Monday morning Previous to his last start when he was well beaten the Bostonian colt had run the fastest mile of the meeting winning in 137 137A A crowd estimated at 24000 was on hand to view the weekend sport Although the skies remained overcast the rains held off although there was a light sprinkle of rain just as the last race ended endedShowing Showing a return to his best form Hal Price Headleys Ramases was able to defeat the shifty sprinting platers which met in the six furlongs of the fifth race and annexed his first purse of the year Watch Over took the place award for Stuart RutchSck and Mrs T Christophers Donna Leona closed a good gap to be third thirdSPLIT SPLIT CHOICES CHOICESJohnnie Johnnie J and Watch Over were split choices and they disputed the lead for almost a half mile with little to choose between them Ramases was skirting the inner rail and raced in closest pursuit of the leaders Johnnie J was first to give way and when making the turn for home Watch Over raced wide creating an opening through which Snyder drove Ramases into command Dur ¬ ing the last furlong the Headley fouryear old increased his advantage slowly until at the end he was a half length to the good But for making the wide turn into the stretch Watch Over may have provided the winner with a stouter argument Donna Leona had only one of the company headed for the first three furlongs but closed ground steadily during the remainder of the trip tripAllen Allen T Simmons Hialeah defeated in his first start due to a slow beginning left the starting gate with becoming speed in the fourth race and had little trouble in grad ¬ uating The Ariel colt was opposed by eight capable maidens The Simmons colt ran the fastest five furlongs of the meeting in 59 and won by almost three lengths over Anti ¬ climax from the Hal Price Headley string E R Bradleys Bums Rush was third There was a dead heat for fourth place Opportunity and Carmus reaching the line in the same stride strideHeader Header led the Ariel colt out of the start ¬ ing machine but it was not long before Hialeah moved to the front Once in com ¬ mand the Simmons colt drew into a good lead Caffarella kept right after him through the stretch though at ro stage of the jour ¬ ney was he ever seriously threatened
