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: ALL LIZZIE BY A NECK Defeats Ronnie Bane Before Big Crowd at Fairmount Park. Delegates to Convention of Medical Association Swell Attendance — Feature Race Honors Doctors. COLLINSVILLE, 111., May 16.— Honoring the American Medical Association which is convened in St. Louis through the current week, the program of eight races presented at Fairmount Park Tuesday proved exciting to the large week-day crowd in attendance and was increased by a large delegation of physicians present. The best offering of the afternoon, carded as the sixth race, honored the American Medical Association. In the feature Hadnogal received a large bulk of the public support. Six others went post-ward. Two-year-olds competed in the fourth and in that race All Lizzie proved superior by a neck over Ronnie Bane at the end of the four and one-half furlongs dash, which the winner negotiated in the good time of :544,£, two-fifths off the established record held by Blind Star. Ronnie Bane, in finishing second, was some two lengths before Vonceil, a first-time starter. All Lizzie, a juvenile daughter of Sweep All — Elizabeth Sullivan, was accounting for her second victory in four trips postward when she sped across the finish a winner. FIFTH TO STAR BESS. Star Bess took the fifth race in easy style, coming to the end of the mile event three lengths before Gaming. The latter in turn was a full length before Atholton, which could do no better than take third honors. The winner, with jockey Leyland Lake in the saddle, Was hustled away from the start and thereafter was never headed, making every post a winning one. Displaying fine early speed and racing alongside Radio Charm, Mountkala pulled away in the stretch run to reach the end of the six furlongs opening event half a length before Nim. Valdina finished third and Radio Charm was best of the five others which contested. Lassie-Flo, sporting the silks of H. Ben-singer, defeated a limit band of sprinters which contested over the six furlongs distance in the third event. He Devil finished second, and Strolling Miss garnered third honors. Scoring her first victory of the year, Lassie Flo, capably handled by jockey Jack Mayer, reached the finish line a length and one-half in advance of He Devil. Rewarding her backers with a 9.80 straight mutuel pay-off, Lassie Flo, coupled in the "Daily Double" combination with Off Time, winner of the second race, paid 6.60 for the usual ticket.
