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• • • 1 ; j , , . , , J , . I i , [ [ J ! | . l | 4 1 LINE ON DERBY PROSPECTS » Several Prominent Candidates to Meet at Washington Park Today. ♦ Mate and Ladder Expected Here Sunday or Monday — Await Announcement Regarding Twenty Grand. ♦ HOMEWOOD, 111., June 10.— Pittsburgher, Spanish Play, Knights Call and Bonfield, among the one hundred and forty-eight eligi- bles for the 0,000 added American Derby to be renewed at Washington Park on Satur- day, June 20, and Burning Up, one of the few prominent three-year-olds not named for that fixture, meet at the seven furlongs distance in the Chicago Retail Coal Mer- chants Purse, the attractive feature race on the Thursday program at the Washington Park. Pittsburgher, Spanish Play and Knights Call are among the most formidable of the western candidates for the coming prize and their Thursday meeting should afford an-, other estimate of their capabilities as well as valuable conditioning, particularly so in the case of Knights Call, which has started but once since meeting injuries while filling an engagement at Agua Caliente last winter. In the sprint Pittsburgher and Burning Up are required to carry top weight of 115 pounds, while Spanish Play gets in under 112 pounds and Knights Call and Bonfield will carry 107 pounds each. While the dis-[ tance precludes any accurate calculation of their adaptability to the one mile and one-quarter of the American Derby, a route which stopped Pittsburgher in the Kentucky Derby, the race should prove one of the most interesting during the meeting. Spanish Play reached the close of the Kentucky Derby course fourth to Twenty Grand, Sweep All and Mate, and won the Louisiana Derby over one mile and one-eighth. Like Pittsburgher, Burning Up and Knights Call, the Louisiana Derby winner is versatile enough to be suited by a dis- tance of seven-eighths and decided over a fast track, the Thursday race may prove one of the fastest of the season. Knights Call was sent five-eighths in 1:03 handily over a good track at Washington Park Wednesday morning, and Pittsburgher, accompanied by Cayuga, went a half mile in :49% a short time later. With the leading western hopefuls coming along splendidly in their preparation for the American Derby and such stalwart easterners as Mate, winner of the Preakness Stakes, and Ladder, second in the Withers and third in the Preakness, due to reach the local track Sunday and Monday, respectively, an-" nouncement of plans for Twenty Grand following the Belmont Stakes, to be run Satur-■ day at Belmont Park, is eagerly awaited. Sweep All, Oswego, The Mongol, Conscience, Boys Howdy, Sunny Lassie, Hyman, Lightning Bolt, Insco and others also are among the candidates approaching the Derby in fine fashion.
