Show 0 Hamble Jinx Jinx Fails to Stop StoP Veteran Drover Driver By y LEWIS BURTON GOSHEN N. N Y Aug 15 INS INS INS- Fred Egan a tall grizzled leathery leathery leath- leath ery ry buggy jo jockey key of 60 years hurdled his hoodoo packing the extra weight of ol four good luck charms By his own admission today Egan is just a superstitious Irish Irish- man Spencer Scott was his thirteenth thirteenth thir- thir horse in the rich trotting stake take for year olds and to ward off the pos possible ble ill effects of that mystic number he carried two r rabbits rabbit's rab- rab b- b bits bit's its it's feet one lucky ring and a I bits bit's luck lucky penny Carried Big Load It is against Egans Egan's principles to reject any charm offered him so sot it t was eminently the good luck of ol Owner Charles W. W Phellis and Egan that hat he wasn't burdened by a greater weight At it was in taking taking tak- tak ing ng the winners winner's share of from the stake Spencer Scott had to lug close to pounds including a pound 28 sulky a pound driver and the light collection collet- collet I tion of talismans Egans Egan's skillful driving had as much to do with Spencer Scotts Scott's victory in the fifteenth Hamble- Hamble tonian as the colts colt's speed In the first heat he had the trotter free of ol difficulties at the start out front at the quarter and across the finish in the fastest time of Spencer S Scotts Scott's otts ott's life lile In the second heat he sent Spencer Scott through from fifth on the inside to the lead at the end of an eighth and won in This artistic performance dissipated dissipated Egans Egan's reputation as the hard luck guy of ol trotting He had been in a dozen Hambleto- Hambleto finished in the money 10 times Although there was no question about luck yesterday Egan couldn't set the whole thing down to merit That isn't his way I had all the breaks in the world he said I |