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READY AT C0LL1NSVILLE Eairmount Park to Inaugurate Long v Illinois Season Saturday. New Handicap Rating Event Among Attractions — Roy Dickerson Re-- placing Morrissey as Starter. -COLLINSVTLLE, 111., May 3.— The Inaugural Handicap field next Saturday ushering in the twenty-seven-day spring meeting at fairmount Park will read like a "whos who" in Middle West racing. C. E. Davisons Chance Ray, winner of close to 8,000 last year; "Butsey" Hernandez star pair, Roidef and Prince Argo; Blue Ridge stables Wise Barrister and Elooto, the first named in the money in eight of nine starts this year; Jim Chesneys Professor Paul and Transview; Charley Deahls Fast Move and other standout thoroughbreds are expected to go post-ward in the six-furlong feature which may see the track record bite the dust. A new handicap rating event, in which the management will give away during the meeting ,500 in cash prizes, is to be introduced opening day. Prizes of 00 week-days and 00 on Saturdays will be awarded to fans making the best selections daily on a point basis — 70 for a first, 30 for a second and 10 for a third. The event actually covers the first seven races, on which single selections must be made, but the participant must also fill out one-two-three selections in the eighth and last race to break any possible ties after the regulation seven. NOTED STARTER. Roy "Boots" Dickerson, one of the "name" starters of America, has been appointed to disperse the fields at Fairmount Park for both the spring and fall meetings. Replacing Johnny Morrissey who served here for two years, Dickerson has been starter at every important track in the country, including Santa Anita, Hialeah, Arlington Park, Chicago, and the metropolitan area. Swanky Arlington Park is still among his assignments. Patience, the underlying virtue of every successful starter, is something Dickerson boasts aplenty. " Almost every season, Fairmount Park comes up with a young riding phenom and fans, scouring the present crop, look with anticipation to such promising youngsters as. Otto Grohs, Davey Erb, Willie Prehm, Walter Smolinski, Warren Williams and others who will make their debut here during the coming twenty-seven-day spring meeting. Veteran turf followers can recall such stars as Johnny Longden, Henry R. Riley, Tommy Root, Melvin Knight, Johnny. Oros and a host of others, first sprung into prominence at Fairmount Park, the latest, Oros, now being leading winning rider of 1539. • KIN BATTLE KIN. I _Kin will be battling kin this spring as at no other time in Fairmount Parks history. 1 A check of the owners and trainers who have thoroughbreds on the scene reveals the oddity of five sets of brothers and two father-and-son combinations. The brother acts are Otto and Bert Bagley; Ralph and Bruce Mclntire; Elden and Noble Tiller; Guy and Sharley Schultz and Dan and Continued on thirty-fourth page. READY ATCQLLINSVILLE Continued from first page. Charley Howell, while the father-son duos are Charles Pershall and son Sam, and Sam Gorbett and son, Glenn. The best photo finish camera ever seen at Fairmount Park will be on exhibition this spring for the twenty-seven-day meeting. Jack Thomas, well-known technician, has improved his device to take pictures at the remarkable rate of 360 a second, an improvement over 120 a second over last year, which will split horses almost hairs apart on the imaginary wire. Thomas also has speeded development of his prints to a minute and a half after the finish of a race. The projection screen idea, providing enlargements of any photo results, will be repeated this spring. Special days for surrounding towns and various civic and social organizations will again be a highlight of the coming Fair-mount Park meeting. Six towns are already in line to be honored, Madison, Edwardsville, Murphysboro, Belleville, Collinsville and Granite City, whie others are still to be added. St. Louis commission merchants have a day set aside in their honor, May 17.
