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I Ai FRANK FRANKEL— The Texans Fames-town and Sir Leknarf registered in their respective races yesterday at Jamaica. Speeding Home Close Jamaica Victor Duels Throughout With Half After Pair Races as Team Over Six Furlongs of Hempstead, With Neck Deciding Margin BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 8. — Louis Rabinowitz Speeding Home drove to a narrow triumph in the featured Hempstead Handicap at Belmont Park today, to the chagrin of the majority of the 22,927 shivering fans in attendance. George D. Wideners Half After finished only a neck behind the winner and a length before A. C. Ernsts Aladear and Mrs. Ada L. Rices Danada Red, who finished in a dead-heat and just a nose before Maine Chance Farms Perfect Bahram, the odds-on choice. Speeding Home rewarded his comparatively few followers at the rate of 8.70 and ran the six furlongs in 1:13 over the dead but dry track, and fighting a wind to the far turn. Basil James was in the saddle and kept the gray son of Gino-Marching Home well away from the deep footing along the inside rail. Only the favorite was successful through the sixth race, William Helis Tidy Bid taking the fourth race. Riding honors were scattered through the afternoon, which was again on the wintery side after a sunny morning that suggested spring had finally arrived. James hustled Speeding Home to the front soon after the start, with Half After close at hand but racing on the inside, while Aladear was all but left in the Cas-sidy gate when Cassidy pressed his button. As the field sped down the far side, Speeding Home and Half After raced as a team slightly before Safe Reward, who was between the pair, while Perfect Bahram was daylight away on the outside, followed by Michigan Kid, Danada Red, Rabies, Happy C. and Aladear. Perfect Bahram Hangs Speeding Home and Half After kept up their battle all the way around the sweeping curve for the stretch, with Perfect Bahram moving up strongly on the final bend, but hanging when they straightened away. Aladear charged up with a furious rush right on the bend and joined Perfect Bahram and Danada Red. As Speeding Home outfinished Half After, the other trio drove to the wire almost on a , perfect line behind them, separated by a scant trace of daylight from the leaders. Safe Reward quit all over at the last turn. Wheatley Stables Try Again surprised in the Flower Field Purse that preceded the feature, catching the favored Maid of Oz at the sixteenth pole and going on to score by a half-length. Mrs. R. L. Gerrys filly finished five lengths before Warbern Stables Miss Challedon, while Allen T. Simmons Eternal Donna was equally as far away in fourth place at the end of the four and a half furlongs on the Widener straightaway. Maid of Oz took the lead a few strides after the start and drew away to a daylight lead, but Jockey Tommy May appeared overconfident, looking around a couple of times, and only really sitting down to ride when Try Again had drawn level with a swift rush that was not to be denied. There was a delay of several minutes before the second race when the United Gate failed to operate properly, causing a false start, and had to be replaced by a reserve gate that was a half-mile up the track. None of the horses went very far in the false start and the jockeys quickly dismounted. Frank Frankels Famestown took the track when they finally broke from the new gate and led all the way to score by two and a half lengths from Mrs. C. Oliver Iselins Nassau, who was in the deep going along the rail all the way.
