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Better Goods Gets Up to Register Neck Win Over Petes Folly at Sportsmans Local Track Record Holder * Carries VanBerg Banner to Fore in Occupation Purse By J. J. MURPHY SPORTSMAN S PARK, Cicero. 111.. May 10. — Better Goods, a seven-year-old who holds the mile and one-sixteenth record at this course, was good enough to score at six and one-half furlongs on a muddy track here today. The victory of the son of Good Goods came in the featured Occupation Purse when he was up in the closing strides to catch the favored Petes Folly and win by a neck. Petes Folly, piloted by Tony Skoronski, bested Lynette, with Craig up. by a similar margin for second place. Better Goods, owned by Marion VanBerg and ridden by Hector Viera, paid 1. He was making his third start of the meeting, having been beaten in two previous handicaps. Petes Folly, a speedster, went to the front at once but was challenged by Y Bond, a mare almost equally as fast, on the backstretch and gave way to her momentarily. Then on the far turn, Petes Folly came to the outside of Y Bond to again take over, but Better Goods was moving up on the inside. Petes Folly bore out slightly ► . on the stretch turn and Better Goods quickly moved into an opening next the rail. Lynette also challenged on the outside. Petes Folly displayed courage in repelling the bid of Lynette, but was not good enough to hold Better Goods. Akboy finished a fairly close up fourth after having been forced wide in the stretch. The rains came again last evening, and as a result the track was deep in slop as the program got under way. The soil underneath was churned up by the horses in the first few events, and during the latter part of the day the course was muddy. Although the skies remained murky throughout the racing period, a crowd of 8,372 was on hand. Claude Hooper, oldest active jockey in the United States at the age of 51. figured in a spill in the opening race today when his mount, the 11 -year-old Brownskin, slipped and fell rounding the first turn of the six-furlong contest. Dustpan and Royal Flyer were unable to avoid Brownskins prostrate form and ran into him, unseating their respective jockeys, 29-year-old George Hufnagel and 30-year-old Mike Weissman. Those riders were up immediately, but Hooper was conveyed from the track to the Continued horn Pag* Fifton* ■ ; j j j j ; ; j | j j j j j j ; j j ! J j j Better Goods Finishes Neck Before Petes Folly at Cicero Continued from Page Sixty ambulance on a stretcher. He was taken to a Chicago hospital to undergo complete examination. The seven-year-old gelding. American Pluck, accounted for his second consecutive successs when he lasted to beat Rumson Hill and Red Charger in a driving finish in the fifth race. Taking over from Grazar in the stretch and benefiting by the fact that [Red Charger, the favorite, who was trying for his fourth score of the meeting, packed Rumson Hill wide nearing the end. Ameri- can Pluck won by three parts of a length in the six -furlong dash. He was ridden by Jack Fieselman. Daisy Cutter, the outsider in the field of 10. took the second, and the Daily Double paid 88.80. Robert Mundorf was on the four-year-old filly and had her in front most of the way to win by four lengths. Salt Air, the favorite, was never a factor. Clarence Meaux. now well in advance of the other horse pilots here in the matter of winning mounts, added to his score in winning the juvenile event that came third on hte bill, with Bell-Array, the public choice, while Tony Skoronski had Page Lady, the second choice home in advance of the most fancied Classid Red in the fourth.
