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FAIRMOUNTS JOCKEY COLONY Twenty-Five Riders Already on the Grounds Working Horses. Joe Dyer, Bobby Morris, Don Scurlock and Melvin Knight Head the Brigade of Veteran Reinsmen. COLLINSVILLE, 111., April 26.— The jockey colony which will be on hand for the twenty-seven day Fairmount Park spring meeting, beginning a week from Saturday, May 6, promises to be every bit as colorful and efficient as in previous campaigns on the east side. A canvass of the grounds yesterday revealed around twenty-five reinsmen already on the scene engaging in the spirited morning workouts. A group of similar proportions is scheduled to be here before the opening, coming from such points as Kentucky, Ohio and New England. Many old favorites and new faces are in the group of pilots already here. Joe Dyer, brother of the noted Johnny Gilbert; Bobby Morris, who rode for the Bomar Stable last year; Don Scurlock, one of the stars of last falls campaign, and Melvin Knight, national champion ten years ago, head the brigade of veterans who are getting ready to don silks. Besides those mentioned are Bobby Mason, Johnny Hernandez, Bobby Haber, Davey Erb, Jimmy Carter, Charlie Carlberg, Charlie Hanauer, George Fair, Otto Grohs, Walter Smolinski, Earl Sylvia, Henry Hauer, Eddie Franklin, Willie Cassity, Charlie Ralls, Joe Bomar and Ray Camp. AMONG THE NEWCOMERS. Erb, Fair, Ralls, Grohs and Hauer are J new in these parts. Hauer, developed by Clarence Davison, the man who also embarked on their careers such stars as Eddie Arcaro and Paul Keester. ranks as one of the steadiest pilots in the Middle West. He rode twenty-one winners at New Orleans the past season. Erb and Grohs are apprentices who came into prominence at Hot Springs recently and are expected to continue to shine here. Among some of the riders due to check in from time to time before the opening are Earl Dew, champion of last falls local meeting, Charley Fields, Willie Prehm, Tom P. , I Martin, Ted King and others. Prehm booted home twelve winners at Hot Springs recently in the first meeting of his career, while Martin, like Hauer, ranks as one of the veteran stars of this section of the country. Both Prehm and Martin are coming in with the main division of the Blue Ridge Stable, now at Keeneland. Five more entries were lined up yesterday for the test race, feature of inspection day, next Sunday. The thoroughbred roll, now totaling ten, reads as follows: Nim, Alrose, Tibi, Red Magic, Hiddenite, Pegging Away, Norman Sloat, Lucky Child, Be Discreet and Prince Pharoah. Ed B. Shipp, who has one of the biggest stables on the grounds, announced he" would run Pegging Away and i Norman Sloat as an entry.
