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Delegate Drives to Steger Victory Shows Way Home To Eternal Reward RewardChoice Choice and RunnerUp Give Crowd of 22008 ThVill As They Charge to Finish Line WASHINGTON PARK Homewood HI May 29 Rebounding gallantly from a poor race on opening day in the crete Handicap the Woolford Farms shifty Delegate dis ¬ played superlative form to account for the seventeenth running of the 10000 Steger Handicap here this afternoon before a crowd of 22008 wellchilled turfites With Tony Skoronski in the stirrup irons and completing a double for the day the gelded son of Maeda Brides Veil accomplished his feat at the direct expense of Augustus Nahms Eternal Reward who was charg ¬ ing hard at the finish threequarters of a length away The Brown Hotel Stables StablesTidy Tidy Sumovas not able to threaten the leaders in the if nal phases but annexed the show award over Fred Wyses weary Air Rate RateDelegate Delegate wisely avoiding the swift early pacer handled the six and onehalf furlongs in 117 under 118 pounds Owner Her ¬ bert M Woolf s share of the gross purse of 11450 was 7825 and it marked Delegates fourth stakes triumph of the year The gelding was the reigning champion of sprinters who competed in Florida during the winter but obviously was not quite fit for his engagement in the Crete andtired badly Local patrons apparently sensed this fact for they backed him into 540 favoritism favoritismWhile While a bright sun shone across the course during the afternoons fastivities those under cover of the grandstand and clubhouse found it difficult to get warm In spite of the elements however the crowd was only slightly below that of same day last year when the sport was offered by the host organization at Hawthorne HawthorneFighting Fighting Frank First in Motion MotionStarter Starter Ruby White sent the field of 10 away to a perfect start and as was ex ¬ pected Fighting Frank who is attempt ¬ ing to regain his best form was the first to the fore However he was quickly joined by Air Rate and the pair battled almost strideforstride down the backstretch and around the turn There was a general bunching up as they headed into the home lane and it was obvious that both Fighting Frank and Air Rate would pay a high price for their exhilarating early pace paceEternal Eternal Reward a notorious railrunner who captured the Crete by locating room there drifted towards the inside for his challenge but Campbell found a stone wall in front of him and quickly changed strat ¬ egy to take Eternal Reward to the extreme outside outsideDelegate Delegate in the meantime had held a contending position even though he lost considerable ground on the turn Once straightened away he smartly gained the upper hand and nearing the eighth pole ap ¬ peared to draw clear But Eternal Reward began to close gap and at the eighth pole was close enough to make his presence felt Skoronski met this bid by hustling the Woolford ace right along Near the finish however when it seemed that he was as ¬ sured of victory he took a steadying hold on the gelding geldingGeorge George Raymond McAllister an 18year old youth from Chattanooga Tenn met with the second success of his career when he brought the favorite Whose down in front over the sprinters who competed in the fifth The lad allowed Whose to peg along in back of the swift early pace fash ¬ ioned by Petsome and Duquense went be ¬ tween horses for the drive and drew off nearing the finish to score by a length and onequarter a former stakes competitor who obviously has gone back held on well after disposing of the early leaders but found Whoses charge undeniable undeniableMrs Mrs G H Peters Likeable proved a bar ¬ gain for his new owner when he scampered off with the third race The sevenyear old was purchased by Edwin C Roth from W H Bishop last fall and the first time he competed under Roths Eldorado Farm colors he was haltered for 3500 Today he raced in 4500 competition and made it two in a row Ridden by Del Jessop he was nicely rated off the pace and after they entered the long straightaway he pulled away Mrs Emil Denemarks gray gelding Matruh was the favorite and teemed to have designs on victory until Likeable made his challenge However he was best of the others beating the Wood view Stables Verona Sands for the show
