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. * I * FRED W. HOOPER— His Mahmoud juvenile filly, Miss Mood, carried off honors in yesterdays third race at Hawthorne. Whose Whose Easily Easily Best Best in in Parkwyn Parkwyn Purse; Purse; Spartan Spartan Noble. Noble, Black Black Swan Swan Victorious Victorious Scores by Three In Lincoln Sprint Makes Every Pole Winning One in Popular Accounting; Place Award to Diderod HAWTHORNE, Cicero, 111., May 27. -Mrs. Karl Mayers Whose, a consistent gelding who served notice in his previous start that he is ready for bigger and better things to come, played the role of odds-on favorite with Barrymore-like agility as he smothered his rivals with a front- running score in the Parkwyn Purse, fifth and feature race on a "blue Monday" program that wasnt blue at all, but which was easily the most pleasant afternoon since the current Lincoln Fields meeting got under way. A crowd of 13,800 turfites took advantage of the warm, mellow weather to witness the sport, and those who installed Whose the prohibitive choice were gratified at this noteworthy performance. The six-year-old gelded son of Questionnaire — Plaid picked up 118 pounds and ran the six furlongs over a drying out track that was "dead" underneath in 1:13% and arrived at the pay-off station three lengths to the good. Mrs. and Mrs. F. M. Harris Diderod, who was virtually left at the post in his previous effort, was away winging today and turned in a creditable race to finish a nose in front of the Woolford Farms Leavenworth for the place, while Mrs. E. Denemarks Chesty was a weary fourth. Brooks Stars in Saddle In contrast to his last test, Diderod was first out of the gate in the Parkwyn, but was soon overhauled by Whose, who drew clear of his rivals almost immediately, while Chesty and Diderod made up the second flight. Steve Brooks, the veteran who is opening a gap over his rivals in the fight for jockey honors here, merely sat still as the favorite made the turn into the stretch and the others closed in for a fleeting moment when they straightened away in the stretch. Whose, however, bounded away when Brooks clucked to him and opened up several lengths before he breezed past the eighth pole. From there on, it was merely a jog. Diderod and Leavenworth, however, put up a torrid battle for the place. Brooks continued his superlative riding when he put up a whale of a finish to get W. H. Bishops Sibley home in front of the six good platers who performed over the mile and one sixteenth route in the sixth, known as the Maplewood Purse. The colt finished a length and one-quarter ahead of Henry Tikulskis game-going War Wise, while the Lombardo Stables Big Albert took down the show. A trailer most of the way, Brooks saved Continued on Page Four Whose Wins as Odds-On Favorite in Lincoln Feature Continued from Page One all possible ground until reaching the lone stretch, where he took the outside, plied the gad with a vengeance and drove up to the front in the last seventy yards, to be drawing away at the line. c-oHiHa Miss Mood, a blazed faced, racy-looking daughter of Mahmoud-Refine, who was purchased for 5,000 by Fred W. Hooper at the Keeneland Sales last year, paid another dividend on that investment when she bounded swiftly over the dead track to handily trim the favored Well Wisher, from the Dixiana stable, in the Gallant Lady Purse, five furlong third race. For a good portion of the distance, Mid Victory, who wound up fourth; Well Wisher and Miss Mood raced head and head, but as they straightened away for the drive the winner forged to the front and Well Wisher went right along with her. But in the final eighth the favorite found herself unable to match the friction-less stride of the Hooperite and bowed by a pair of open lengths. Stella Snyder came with fine speed nearing the end and forced Well Wisher to a strong drive to save the place. A winner by six lengths at Tropical Park last winter, Miss Mood impressed those who saw her today as a filly of good quality who may prove a bargain for her owner.
