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Miss Monk Hangs On To Defeat Joe Mill Latter Closes Fast but Is Neck Short of Victory at Cahokia By J. J. HAHN Staff Correspondent CAHOKIA DOWNS, East St. Louis, 111., May 9. — Shaking off her habit of running out at the head of the stretch, Mattingley and Hardicks Miss Monk, a daughter of The Sultan, hung on tenaciously in the GVz furlongs Edwardsville Handicap here Friday night to score a close one under a reusing ride by D. L. Shirey. The roan filly defeated Jesse Arps Joe Mill, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Beustrings Momanpops and five other three-year-olds in one of the most exciting finishes at this young meeting. Contesting against the top three and finishing in order were Lissas Lad, Boots Briar, the public choice; Five Diamonds, Four Wheeler andWilshire. Taken under double wraps as Lissas Lad and Five Diamonds raced each other into submission .the roan filly took command after pasing the last eighth and a sixteenth from the finish opened daylight over the faltering Lissas Lad but Joe Mill, who was forced back at the clubhouse turn ahd.who was fifth at the head of the stretch, put on a bristling stretch run and was swiftly wearing down the winner but was a neck away from the successful one and a head in advance of Momanpops who also closed with a rush to garner the minor award by 2Vz lengths from the early leader who bested the favorite by less than a length for fourth. The winner was third choice and returned a .80 mutuel. In another interesting event Mrs. E. B. Shipps old-timer, Legate, came with a cyclonic rush in the stretch after trailing his field during the early running and got up in the last jump to finish in a dead heat with Milton and Sidney Katz Steel Peer. Carroll P. Polands Feraghan, in the thick of competition all the way, was a badly beaten third in the seven-furlong affair. It was the first dead heat to win at this meeting. Hector Sanabria handled Steel Peer while Herberto Hinojosa, the pleading rider at Jefferson Downs with 67 scores, held the reins on the 10-year-old son of Some Chance who was annexing his eighth victory of the year and is probably the winningest horse in the country. Monday will be "dark" but the sport will be resumed Tuesday night with nine races the offering in which three-year-olds and upward are to match strides at 6Y2 furlongs. Of the eight entered, five of them have won at this meeting.
