Evening star., 1942-06-28
Steps 70 Record
For Event, Gets
$23,650 Purse
Swing and Sway Runs
Second, Nearly Two
Lengths in Rear
By SID FEEDER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, June 27-Whirl-
away stretched out his 6-foot tail
and won the Brooklyn Handicap to-
day so easily he looked as if he
can overhaul Seabiscuits all-time
money winning record any time the
cash is laid on the line for him.
Turning loose his famous kick
down Aqueduct's killer straight
away in tune with the Here Comes
Whirlaway" cry from the stands,
little Mr.. Big Tail galloped home
by nearly two lengths to pick up
a s23, $50 paycheck and become the
second horse in all racing history
to go over the 100000 mark in
earnings.
Today's trick skyrocketed his
bankroll to s404, ,486, just s33 PA
short Of the Biscuits S437,7 ,730. 1t
put him in a spot to pick UP the
difference in the Butler Handicap
at Empire, July 4. and the Massa-
chusetts Handicap at Suffolk. July
Is. on the schedule Owner War
rem Wright and Trainer Ben jones
have lined up for him.
Sets Record for Race.
He carried top weight of 123
pounds today, spotting the seven
others in the field anywhere from
to II, and still whizzed the i.
miles in 2 minutes 225 seconds.
The time Topped three-ffths Of a
second off the record for the Brook
lyn and came within l second Of
the track record on footing that
was not completely fast.
Mrs Payne Whitney's Swing and
Sway was second and Mrs. Parker
Cornings Attention third
By all odds, his performance was
the headline act Of war relief
program which saw William Ziegler.
jrs, Breezing Home win the s5,675
Great American Stakes by a neck
and Doublrab, from the barn Of
Mrs. Tlyou Christopher of Miami.
take the Army and Navy Handicap
in the track record time Of 1:1025
for six furlongs, although weighted
down with l25 pounds.
The Army and Navy relief funds
and the United Service Organiza-
tions collected 100000 from the
program. The. chalk players in
the crowd of 22,o54 got $3.50 back
for each 81 win ticket they bought
on Whirly, which had the benefit OF
some of the best riding he's ever
received, from George The Ice
NAM Woolf.
Whirly Runs Typical Race.
AS usual. Whirlaway made his
customary leisurely exit from the
starting gate and followed the field
around the first turn as Swing and
Sway and Tom Howells Olympus
cut out the pace. Woolf clucked the
go ahead" as they moved past the
?. mile mark and the Kentucky
cannonball shouldered through the
field rounding the stretch turn.
A quarter of a mile from home,
Woolf flicked him a couple OF times
with the hat and Whirly caught
Swing and Sway and went right on
by.
Although he whipped one of his
jinXes today when Attention was
hard put to beat out Mrs Whitneys
The Rhymer for the show spot,
there was one disappointment for
Whirlaway in the race. This was
the absence of Lou Tufano's Market
Wise, which has been ailing ever
since whipping Whirly in the Sub
urban Handicap.
But the way Woolf kept Whirly
within shouting distance of the head
end of the pack-he was no more
than eight lengths away at any
time-it is doubtful if the rags-to-
riches runner could have repeated
his Decoration Day victory in this
one
At the finish, the field was
stretched out nearly a sixteenth of
a mile The Rhymer. winner OF
last winters Widener Handicap. was
an easy fourth. three lengths III
front of Movie-man Harry Warmers
Paper Boy. A. J. Sackett's Tola
Rose was sixth. John Clark's Waller
seventh and Olympus chasing the
whole bunch.