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Coley Bay Earns Decision in Thriller °Gets Up Near End To Prevail by Nose Camps First Gives Way In Drive as 18,944 View Sportsmans Park Finale SPORTSMANS PARK, Cicero, HI., May 10. — Coley Bay, under the silks of N. L. Raffelman and the lightweight of the field of 10, under 107 pounds, drove to a hard-earned nose decision over Felix Randos stubborn Camps First at the end of the Chicago Handicap that featured the final day of racing at this track today. The stretch duel of the first two saw them two lengths before Dots Risk, who was third for the Kirkpatrick and Turner partnership. The victory of the winner came as a surprise, and he returned 9.60 as he regained the good form that saw him winning his two final races at New Orleans. Jockey Artos L. Fay rode Coley Bay and sent him over the one mile and a sixteenth distance in 1:51%. Joenace Stables Juke Box, the favorite and highweight under 128 pounds, raced forwardly and on the inside for a time, but flattened out under his impost and led only two horses. Bates in Saddle Triple As a spectacle, the race was a smashing affair, with Petsome taking a short early lead as Camps First was rated next in line before the faint-hearted Walloon, who was done after six furlongs. When Petsome chucked it at the turn, Coley Bay moved into third place, after having improved his position gradually. On the final turn, Coley Bay moved around the outside to reach equal terms with Camps First and from that juncture to the wire the two leaders matched strides in a game exhibition that saw Coley Bay getting the nod in the final stride. Dots Risk came from far back in the early racing, but was used up reaching contention and her efforts to make any serious inroads into the advantage of the first two proved futile. A spirited finish came out of the running of the fifth race that saw seven 0,000 claimers engaged at seven furlongs when Blenette, racing for D. B. Whitehouse, drove up on the outside to eke out a nose verdict over Joenace Stables Go Devil, after the latter had raced Guerico and Rut-ters pacesetting Invercork into defeat entering the stretch. The winner was ridden by Tommy Bates to complete a riding triple for the lad from Burnt Fork, Utah. Blenette was scoring her first success in nine starts this year, and returned 2.00 as she was timed in 1:31 y5. Clear and bright weather, the finest of the meeting, greeted a crowd of 18,944 who turned out for the final day of the sport at this tidy west-side half-mile course. The combination of owner-trainer H. W. Ostle and jockey Tommy Bates completed a double when Devils Frolic accounted for the third race in a driving finish that saw three noses on the wire with second going to Biz as the favored Break Thru was previously scored for the combination in the second race.
