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Wayne Chambers Rides Four Cahokia Winners Takes Lead in Jockeys Race; Fire Fire Fire Takes Feature By J. J. HAHN CAHOKIA DOWNS, East St. Louis, May 13. — Frank O. Akin"s Fire Fire Fire won the featured Ladue Purse here Saturday night but Wayne Charles Chambers, a native of Saskua, Okla., stole the show from the five-year-old daughter of Attention when he became the first rider at the meeting to handle four winners on a single program. Chambers, who started his string on Martin W. Hubers Skippers Moon in the fourth event, missed in the fifth but came back in the following event and won with Roy A. Davis String With Me and followed that with his good ride on Fire Fire Fire. Chambers missed in the eighth but came back in the ninth to win with Seguro, another Akin representative. Fire Fire Fire was not away too well in the five furlongs dash but was rushed to the front before going the first three-sixteenths and once in the van never re-1 linquished the lead. He was first followed by Demon Bo but the latter dropped back slightly while racing along the inner rail and was in close quarters on the far turn as Shikari, who also broke slowly, moved into second place. At the head of the stretch, Shikari was on even terms with the ultimate winner but drifted out all through the stretch while Demon Bo had to take up sharply after straightening out when unable to get through next to the inner rail. Demon Bo was steered around Fire Fire Fire a sixteenth from the finish but it was too late and he dropped the decision by half a length. Demon Bo was a pair of lengths before the faltering Shikari. Bright Imp, Power Pal, Pearl Corral and Creme-de-Cocoa also competed and finished in that order. Despite the heavy condition of the racing strip and rains that fell before and during the racing a surprisingly large crowd of 8,570 turned out for the nine-event card. It was raining again here this afternoon and prospects are for a muddy or heavy racing strip when the meeting is resumed Tuesday night. The main event is the six and one-half furlongs seventh race In which seven are entered . ,
