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KENTUCKY OAKS RUNNING Great Three-Year-Old Filly Race Closing Day Attraction of Churchill Downs Meeting. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 20.— The Kentucky Oaks, as old as the Kentucky Derby and one of the oldest turf fixtures of annual running in this country, comes up for its 1932 renewal as the principal race on the closing day program of the Churchill Downs spring meeting here tomorrow. Eleven, including several very outstanding ones, comprise the field for this fifty-eighth running of the race, exclusively for three-year-old fillies, and the contest will be at one mile and an eighth. From the East, W. S. Kilmers Suntica is here to bid for the honors, while the West has its more formidable hopefuls in Mrs. John Marschs Princess Camelia, H. P. Continued on eleventh page. * KENTUCKY OAKS RUNNING Continued from first page. Headleys Modern Queen, Albert Sabaths I Say, A. B. Hancock-, l-.ght Eagle, J. W. Parrishs Depression and the Longridge Stables Oscillation. Others named through the entry box this morning were the Greentree Stables Tweeny; Prefer, also owned by Mr. Headley; I. Korts Jodie K, and Hukill and Lairs Joretta. In their final trials for the race, Suntica went three-quarters in 1:17%, breezing; Modern Queen, a half in :50%, breezing; Tweeny, three-eighths in :36, handily, and Oscillation, a half mile in :50% on fast going this morning. Oscillation had her final preparation at Douglas Park, while the others worked at Churchill Downs. Cousin Jo, racing for Charles Nuckols, accounted for the race last year, and other recent winners included Alcibiades, Rose of Sharon, Easter Stockings, Mary Jane, Black Maria, Deeming and Princess Doreen,
