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WINS KENTUCKY OAKS ♦ W. S. Kilmers Suntica Scores Notable Triumph in Historic Fixture. ♦ Defeats I Say and Depression Before Tremendous Closing Day Crowd at Churchill Downs. ♦ LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 21.— Willis Sharpe Kilmer, whose green and orange colors are well known to racing enthusiasts, east and west, furnished his first winner of the historic Kentucky Oaks when his home-bred Suntica, daughter of Sun Briar and Sim-patica, ridden by A. Pascuma, scored in the fifty-eighth annual running of that prized old fixture for three-year-old fillies at Churchill Downs here today. Suntica won by a length from I Say, the splendid daughter of Dis Done, which races for Albert Sabath, and Depression carried the silks of J. W. Parrish into third place at the close of the mile and one-eighth. Princess Ca-melia, favorite, and recently acquired by Mrs. John Marsch, was fourth, leading five others. Suntica defeated her rivals after a rather stubbornly fought contest, sturdy response after Pascuma had rated her off the leaders for three-quarters, bringing the eastern filly around Princess Camelia and I Say and into her important triumph. For an eighth in the stretch, I Say gamely stood off the ultimate winner, only to give way in the final furlong, where Princess Camelia, weakening badly, was outfinished by Depression. After heading the Sabath filly, the winner slowly drew out until at the finish she enjoyed a margin of a good length. Suntica covered the distance on a fast track in 1:52%, the fastest for the race since 1929, when Rose of Sharon ran the route in 1:51. She was second choice to Princess Camelia. The race, witnessed by one of the largest crowds of the meeting, was worth ,590 to the winner, with ,000 to second, 00 to third and 50 to fourth. The young turf queens fought for the coveted old stake under very threatening skies, rain developing later, and their meeting furnished the principal contest of the day, the closing one of a successful spring meeting of nineteen days. *
