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risen Victorious in Wilmette Purse Fugit Drives to Narrow Accounting fr Regains Command To Whip Control ControlGets Gets Up in Final Stride After Being Overtaken by Latter at Sixteenth Pole PoleAQUEDUCT AQUEDUCT L I N Y June 24 Lester Manor Stables Fugit put up a valiant struggle to win the featured Bohemian Purse by a scant nose from Sunshine Stables Control who had wrested the lead from him at the sixteenth pole Edward Laskers Myrmidon finished a halflength back in the hairraising finish with Mrs J T Maloneys favored Big If finishing daylight out of the money in fourth place Carr Hatchs One Bell completed the small field Fugit was piloted by Doug Dodson who refused to give up when apparently beaten and paid 880 The time for the six furlongs was a highly creditable 111 over a track that was drying under a humit sun and strong wind but was still muddy muddyFavorite Favorite players in the throng of 19592 attracted by the first reasonably pleasant j weather in several days held their own with Lady Fakir closing with a rush to take the second race the stewards lodging and sustaining an objection that gave the third event to Stampede II and Maidez taking the fourth event as a tepid choice over Adlibit who finished second secondBig Big If First in Motion MotionBig Big If was first out of the gate in the good start that opened the proceedings while Control was last of the five to get away Dodson quickly pushed Fugit to the front along the rail however closely fol ¬ lowed by Myrmidon and One Bell while Big If dropped back behind Control Fugit widened his lead to a length rounding the far turn with Myrmidon One Bell and Control following in Indian file but not far apart Midway of the curve to the stretch Shelby Clark asked Control to run and the colt quickly charged up on the leader going between One Bell and Myrmidon and gaining rapidly Con ¬ trol drew level above the sixteenth pole and took a neck lead a few strides farther fartherContinued Continued on Page Three Fugit Drives Hard For Nose Triumph TriumphLoses Loses Lead to Control at Sixteenth Pole but Comes On Again to Gain Decision DecisionContinued Continued from Page One on but Dodson kept busy on Fugit who dug in with determination and shoved his nose to the fore in the final stride Myr ¬ midon though tiring held on gamely Biff If turned in a dull effort showing little after the first few jumps away from the gate gateFugit Fugit has raced well in Florida but had started only once in April since the open ¬ ing of the New York season George Strate as usual sent out a fit horse horseMaine Maine Chance Farms Perfect Bahrain scored a frontrunning victory in the Fort Greene Purse that followed the feature reaching the end of the mile and a six ¬ teenth a length and a quarter before Deer head Stables Rocket Bomb despite drifting out in the stretch Joseph Dushocks Mah moudess who hugged the rail finished a neck farther back and three lengths before Gustave Rings Prefect As anticipated yesterday it was impossible to find an ap ¬ prentice for the latter and the sevenpound allowance was waived with Shelby Clark taking the mount Clynmalyra Studs Equanimous was1 the favorite here and made only a feeble bid along the inside nearing the far turn then fell back Per ¬ fect Bahram paid 960 and was ably rid ¬ den by Arnold Kirkland The time for the mile and a sixteenth was 145 145Bold Bold Mate Disqualified DisqualifiedThe The first disqualification of the meeting came in the hurdle race when Virginia K Malens Bold Mate who reached the end of the about one and threequarters miles two lengths before Daniel Hess Stampede H was placed last after lengthy deliberation by the stewards and a study of the motion pictures Merlin Fife rode Bold Mate while Horace Murdock piloted Stampede H After the numbers were taken down it was announced that Bold Mate had interfered with M Andrew Cushmans Escarp who finished fourth at the first hedge on the backstretch on the first time around The latter part of the announcement over the public address system was drowned out by a rising chorus of protest from the crowd though Stampede n was slightly favored over Bold Mate Miss Malen had the dubious satisfaction of being photographed in the winners circle with Bold Mate whom she trains They made a pretty if unprofitable picture pictureH H E Talbots Zadoc was a distant third as Stampede n appeared to weave before him from the final turn to the finish while Escarp was a distant fourth the three horses all moving up a notch Stampede n paid 530 530Milton Milton Seidts Knights Armor fell heavily on the flat after crossing the same hedge where the interference took place and jockey Robert McDonald was taken to Physicians Hospital Jackson Heights with a suspected fracture of the right cheek bone and possible concussion
