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stretch Bay Jack moved up and gave the leader a head 

 and head struggle to the three-quarter pole. Here the 

 London crack fell back, and Eathowen, coming with a 

 rush, gave the favorite no let up. Down the home stretch 

 the pace was hot, whips were cracking and a thousand 

 voices added to the excitement of the finish. "Jack has 

 it ! " " No, Eathowen has him ! ' ' sounded from hundreds 

 of throats. At the old draw-gates, Billy Flint, on Eatho- 

 wen, makes still another effort and gets his horse's head 

 to the front, but Jack responds to the call, and half way 

 to the stand is again head and head. Once more Eatho- 

 wen lets out a link, and a responding effort is made by 

 the favorite, but the killing pace he has been kept at from 

 the start with a fresh horse ready at every stage to take 

 up the running had its effect, and in the last two jumps 

 Eathowen forged to the front and gains the verdict by a 

 head. Old heads commenced to shake and prophecy that 

 the favorite 's bolt was shot, but many others loyally stuck 

 to their colors and some even dipped in at the reduced 

 rate and got on a little more. The third heat was almost 

 a repetition of the second. Eathowen made the running 

 the first quarter, then Bay Jack set the pace for the next 

 half, when Eathowen again came up for the finish. The 

 run home was another desperate struggle, whip and spur 

 being freely used and Eathowen again gaining the verdict 

 by a scant head. Now a rush is made for the box, and 

 fifty voices are shouting in the desperate attempts to get 

 on. "Eathowen," "Eathowen," is the reigning cry, and 

 soon the odds are on him, $50 against $20 on the field. 

 Soon the jockeys are mounted for the third heat, backers 

 of Fisher's stable in the meantime being busy figuring up 

 their books, and counting how much they had saved from 

 the wreck through the medium of their investments on 

 Eathowen. 



At the drop of the flag the latter jumped off with the 

 lead, Jack on the Green laying at his side. This position 

 was unchanged to the three-quarter pole, the two leaders 

 being fully four open lengths ahead of Bay Jack. At this 

 stage it looked as if the old struggle was to be renewed 



