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fairmount park inaugural Twenty Thousand Southern Illinois Fans Turn Out to Witness the Running of Memorial Handicap. COLLINSVILLE, 111., May 30.— Fairmount Parks thirty-one day meeting opened here I today before a colorful holiday throng of i 20,000 people. Long before the bugle called the horses to the post for the first event, the clubhouse and grandstand were well filled and the spacious lawns packed with racing devotees. St. Louis came out en masse while Collins-ville, East St. Louis and other southern Illinois cities were well represented. The huge crowd was gratifying to track officials and they predict a banner meeting for 1938. Topping the eight race program was the running of the Memcrial Handicap at six furlongs. The contest drew six of the best horses quartered here and was decided over a fast track. Prince Argo and Little Nymph were made choices in the race while Joy Ride, C. W. Pershalls locally-owned Happy Argo gelding, was given good support. The secondary feature at five and one-half furlongs vied with the Memorial in interest, and a field of six went to the post in this offering. Chatuga, in the cerise and white colors or rJutsey " Hernandez, was the first public choice of the atu.moon to reward the form players when the six-year-old daughter of Cherokee held a length advantage over I Joyce K. at the end of the five and one- j half furlongs sprint, fourth event on the I card. Tombereau was third. The "Daily Double" combination of Able I Abe, winner of the second race, and Bonnie I Dream, which accounted for the third event, paid 62.80 for a ticket. The honor of winning the first race of the crrd went to Mr. M. W. Carroll Jr.s Notation, which went to the front soon after the i start, and stayed there throughout. Never Blue was second, a half length behind and Princess Tour a head further back in third position.
