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June T. Outgames So Proudly by Neck [Pair Seen in Long Hawthorne Battle Emick Mare Responds Well To Freddie Smiths Riding For Splendid Accounting HAWTHORNE, Cicero, 111., May 31.— Mrs. G. H. Emicks June T., a five-year-old mare who is bred to run best on an "off" track, found the slippy track that existed for the Leif Erickson Drive Purse, which featured todays program, right up her alley and, flashing keen speed all the way and holding on with splendid courage in the drive, she got home safely a neck in front of R. C. Austins So Proudly. Three lengths further in back of the battling leaders came I. C. Mishlers Baby Gold. The Leif Erickson was a mile and one-sixteenth test fashioned for third-rate middle-distance performers and it was witnessed by a surprisingly large gathering of 13,100 who were forced under the stands for the opening races because of a driving rain, and who shivered from the penetrating coldness that followed. When a heavy downpour beat on the track early in the program it was changed quickly from lightning fast to sloppy, a condition that later turned to muddy. June T.. a daughter of Big Brand, a stallion who couldnt raise a respectable gallop unless the track was muddy during his racing career, just "gobbled up the goo," as the saying goes, as she swept to her well earned victory. Freddie Smith, who is riding in splendid lorm at this meeting, had the mare away nicely and before the field was settled away on the back-stretch he had her on top. Toy-Quay, So Proudly, Genies Mate, and Five A. M. furnished serious contention until the field reached the tar turn when the ultimate winner and So Proudly pulled away and began a drive that lasted for more than a quarter of a mile right down to the wire. Comes On Again to Score So Proudly, who was piloted by Al Bodiou, forged into a slight lead as the line neared, but June T. was not to be denied and she responded to hard riding to come on again. W. H. Bishops Old Silk moved around the entire field in the stretch after a slow beginning to haul in the big money in the fifth dash, which served as the secondary feature and, driving with considerable power, she was a drawing-away winner by a length over Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Sopics Rotate, while Mrs. T. M. Pruetts Crimson Tide garnered the show portion. One of the choices in the open beeting race, the five-year-old daughter of Good Advice — Stockingless had Art McKlemurry in the irone and she failed to show any indication of speed after the break. But once settled, she began to pick up her rivals, but it wasnt until well straightened - in the stretch that she began to roll. Cinesar, in the meantime, had wrested the lead from Rotate and was going smoothly until he tired suddenly and dropped out of contention, at which time Golden Cross took over. Old Silk, far on the outside, moved up strongly and by the time she reached the eighth pole she had shoved her nose to the fore, and then she began the process of gradually drawing away. • J
