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Gets Up Near Wire to Beat Ruhe by Neck at Homewood ROBERT J. KLEBERG High Scud carried his King Ranch colors successfully in the Spartan Handicap at Washington. King Ranch Colt Covers Mile In 1 :34; Sub Fleet Finishes Third, Mark-Ye-Well Fourth By J. J. MURPHY WASHINGTON PARK, Homewood, 111., Aug. 24. A number of strong contenders for the rich Washington Park Handicap to be run ,Labor Day showed their wares in the featured Spartan Handicap here Monday afternoon, and the winner came from an unexpected sourse when High Scud, owned by King Ranch and ridden by jockey Steve Brooks, was triumphant. The four-year-old colt, forced to race on the outside all the way, got to the front near the end to defeat the fast-closing Ruhe from the Hasty House Farm stable by a neck, while Ruhe, racing coupled with Oil Capitol, nipped Dixianas Sub Fleet by a nose. Calumet. Farms Mark7Ye-Well, a lukewarm choice over Cyclotron, was a strong going fourth in the mile event that was run in 1:34. High Scud, in taking, his second purse of the meeting, paid 8.60 and earned ,000 by his victory. Second Avenue Makes Pace A field of 11 came out to vie for the 0,000 purse, and Second Avenue,-winner of the Michigan Mile at Detroit, made the early pace, with the speedy Cyclotron, a Calumet cast-off, close up. The pair led Coffee Money by a good margin down the backstretch, with Cyclotron on the outside, and the latter did not show in front until they rounded the stretch turn. The pair were just about spent as the eighth pole in the stretch was reached, and Coffee . Money took over, but then came the big charge. High Scud, who broke from outside post position and rounded the last bend in the middle of the track, moved up. Sub Fleet, who had been required to ease slightly before reaching midstretch, was again in full stride, and Job Dean- Jessop sent Ruhe into a narrow opening next the rail, while Mark-Ye-Well, in the clear well out from the others, was going strongly. It was a Continued on Page Forty-Three
