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SEABISCUJT THE TOP WEIGHT Must Carry 115 Pounds in ,000 Providence Handicap at Narragansett Park Today. PAWTUCKET, R. I., May 12.— The ,000 added Providence Handicap, for three-year-olds, at a mile and a sixteenth, will be the mid-week feature at Walter OHaras Rhode Island racing grounds here tomorrow, and the event has attracted an overnight field of a dozen of the twenty-nine original nominations. Seabiscuit, a son of Hard Tack and Swing On, from the Wheatley Stable and shipped here especially for the race, has been assigned the post of honor by racing secretary Pat Horgan, the New York invader being asked to shoulder 115 pounds. The weight then drops to 110, the impost that has been given Tugboat Frank, a recent upset winner over Mower; Faust, which will race coupled with the consistent Miss Bam as the A. G. Tarn entry, claimed last start, gets in with one pound less than Tugboat Frank, while his stable companion is asked to pick up 101 pounds. Columbiana, one of the better three-year-| olds shown during the Florida season and the outstanding filly of the winter season, j appears well suited by her impost of 108 . pounds. Gallant Gay, the Weston Adams | nominee, will be benefited by having a race I over the local racing strip this meeting and should show to better advantage. He is asked to shoulder 109 pounds. C. V. Whitneys nominee, Piccolo, has been assigned a burden of 108 pounds. Held at the same notch of 107 pounds are Araho Stables Undulate and the recent graduate from the maiden ranks, Cary T. Graysons Brown Top. The latter impressed in his winning outing his first start of the year. The remaining members of the field are Sir Jim James, which has been given an impost of 106 pounds. Nightcap, performed creditably during the Maryland season, will tote 104 pounds. Swamp Angel, the only other starter, along with Miss Bam, carries the lightest burdens of the company, namely 101 pounds.
