Evening star., 1942-07-05
Weight, Strange
Track Hamper
Wright's S Ace
Trainer Hirsch Again
Hoodoo as Long Shot
Captures Butler
BY SID FEDER,

Associated Press Sports Writer
NEW YORK, July Am old ink
and couple of new hoodoos beat
WhlrlaWay today in one of the years
outstanding racing upsets.
Although he gained his usual city
block in the stretch, the combina-
tion of milk wagon load on his
back and short, strange stretch
worked enough of a hugaboo to
make Warren Wright's whizzer wind
up second to A. ]. Sackett's lightly
regarded Tola Rose, in the rich
Butler Handicap at Empire City
before record crowd of 34,723.
AS was the case the last time
Whirly was beaten, it took a track
record to do it.
THE Rose" packing only 103
pounds compared to the 1872 Whirl-
away had to lug around, led from
end to end to hit the wire in 1:5625,
looping 35-second off the standard
Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark's Lively
Night set up in winning this same
l 3/16-mile stake three years ago.
And for doing this, he returned his
supporters $3.50 for each 50 ticket.
AS result, instead of crowding
Seabiscuit's money winning record
by picking UP the S22 300 Butler pay
check, Whirly had to be satisfied
with $4,000 second money today in
the feature of program from
which war relief received 100000.
The runnerup prize boosted Mr.. Big
Tails bankroll to s410, ,486, leaving
him S27244 short of the Biscuits
big total He expects to make up
this difference in the $4,000 Mas
sachusetts Handicap at Suffolk
July Is.
Trainer Hirsch His Nemesis.
Beyond the weight and the fact
that this was the first time he'd
ever run over Empires sharp turns
and cramped homestretch-the 18th
track he's raced on, incidentally
was the old whammy Trainer Make
Hirsch has on him.
A year ago, Make saddled Mrs.
Parker Corning's Attention to end
string of six Whirlaway triumphs
in the Arlington Classic. After
Whirly whipped Attention soundly
in the Brooklyn Handicap at Aque-
duct last Saturday, Hirsch decided
not to send the son of Equipoise to
the post. Instead, he substituted
the 5-year-old Tola Rose, which got
in with a virtual feather on his
back.
And the son of Head Play, piloted
by Warren Mehrtens, came winging
home by nearly four lengths, while
Whirly had to turn on all his gas
to come from dead last to head OF
Mrs. Payne Whitney's Swing and
Sway for the place slot.
Whirlaway cost a lot of folks a
lot of money today. The greatest
crowd ever to turn out at this West
chester County plant backed him
down to IS cents on the dollar
before a field of seven was called
to the post.
Tola Roses Lead Too Big.
He ran his usual race. While
Tola Rose, Swing and Sway and
William Woodward's 4-year- -old filly
queen, Vagrancy, fought it out for
the front end for the first mile, the
4-year-old flyer from the Blue Grass
just loped along in the rear He
started to come to life as the field
headed into the far turn, but by
this time Tola Rose had taken over
complete command and was run
ming easily.
Turning into the stretch, Whirly
went to the outside and Jockey
George Woolf went to work with
MS bat. The son of Blenheim ran
over all the other horses. but Head
Plays rangy boy had too much edge.
Swing and Sway held on for third
place, as Vagrancy faded to fourth.
She was trailed to the. wire in order
oy the other half of Mrs. Whitney's
entry, The Rhymer; Harry M. War;
ler's California hope, Paper Boy,
md Tony Pelleteri's Bay View, the
of last years Santa Anita
Handicap,