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King Clover Turns Back Joey Boy at Garden State Two Stage Nip and Tuck Duel In Featured Pottsville Purse By WILLIAM PHILLIPS Staff Correspondent GARDEN STATE PARK, Camden, N. J., May 15. — Cary C. Boshamers King Clover, receiving a sizable nine-pound handicap from Joe Gavegnanos Joey Boy, this afternoon defeated that one by a short head in a thrilling two-horse duel that developed at the beginning of the one mile and a sixteenth Pottsville Purse and left the others nine lengths in their wake at the finish. Mrs. W. E. Snells King Okapi was the first of the rear guard, followed .by Irish Game, Hearty Laugh, American Ned and The Voice. The crowd of 15,409 enjoying the formful racing and beautiful weather were almost equally divided in their respective opinions, with first King Clover and then Joey Boy being made the favorite. The winner finally was made a slight choice for a return of .80. He was capably ridden by the Boshamer stable rider, Frank Bone, and ran the distance over a fast track in an expectionally good 1:44%. Although the public was divided prior to the race, the great majority afterward gave out their hearts to Joey Boy, who turned in a wonderfully game try for his first attempt over a distance of ground, while carying top weight of 122 pounds. It was he who fashioned most of the pace, and he appeared unwilling to give an inch right down to the wire. Joey Boy, who is a son of Jacomar and Eponine, went to the front as starter Palmer pressed the button, with King Clover lapped on his flanks on the outside. Straightening into the backstretch, Fernando Fernandez, astride Joey Boy, and Bone, up on King Clover, both reached for more rein to conserve the energy of their charges. King Clover moved up to be head-and-head with his rival and went into the far turn with a short advantage. Fernandez, either believing he could obtain increased speed when he asked for it or afraid that Joey Boy would be short for the distance, kept his mount in hand until the stretch bend. King Clover drifted a bit wide at this point, and Joey Boy was urged forward to take the lead for a few yards. They then went stride for stride with the lighter weighted King Clover getting the advantage at the end. Unification, William G. Helis, Jr.s 7,-000 yearling acquisition who failed miserably in his racing debut last week, this afternoon displayed at least enough improvement to trim a field of 11 fellow three-year-old maidens in the six furlongs third race. He was doing his absolute best at the end of the race to take a three-quarters of a length decision over W. P. Fowleys Sandhurst, who bettered Mrs. E. H. Ellisons Hattie R. by one length.
