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ODDITY AT FAIRMOUNT PARK Six Sets of Brothers Plan to Race Horses During Coming Meeting. Pershall Brothers Were Among the Leading Owners to Race at the Collinsville Track Last Fall. COLLINSVILLE, 111., April 27.— The largest brother act in the history of Fairmount Park will be on display at Fairmount Park during the twenty-seven day spring meeting starting a week from next Saturday, May 6. As general manager D. C. Burnett today checked his list of owners and trainers who are unloading their thoroughbreds at the course, he ran across the unusual number of six sets of brothers who will compete against each other. Burnett expects this angle to flavor the competition no little, once the campaign gets under way. The brothers who will vie for honors are the Bagleys, Otto and Bert, the former being conditioner for the Blue Ridge Farm stable; the Howells, Charley and Dan; the Per-shalls, Sam and Charley; the Schultzes, Guy and Charley; the Gorbets, Sam and Glenn, and the Tillers, Noble and Elden. With the exception of Otto Bagley and Charley Pershall, all the strings of the above turfmen are already on the scene, and before the week is up the other two will also be here. The Blue Ridge Farm group, headed by Wise Barrister and Elooto, and the Pershall string, including the good juvenile Albert J., are due from Keeneland tomorrow or Saturday. Several of the brother combinations are well known locally, especially the Pershalls, who hail from nearby Granite City. Sam was one of the leading owners on the grounds last fall, with the thoroughbreds Brown Ben, Miss Lampley, Peggys Sun and others. Charley also did well with his string, the top runner being the handicap sprinter Joy-ride. If local race fans can go back thirty-five years they will remember Charley Howell as one of the jockeys in the Worlds Fair Handicap, of ,1Q4.;? A Jopk at Howell now at Fairmount would belie the fact that he ever was a pilot, for he tips the beam at around 200 pounds. Charley has two horses on the scene— Able Abe and Open Hearth.
