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LISTS OF BRILLIANT ELIGIBLES Brandywine and Sussex Handicaps Draw All Eastern Stars. i Johnstown Among Forty-Five Named for Brandywine at Delaware Park-Honey Cloud Named. WILMINGTON, Del., May 26.— The con-? centrated strength of eastern racing will be found among the ninety-eight nominations for the Brandywine and Sussex Handicaps, the two best specials for stallions, mares and geldings, three years old-and over, that will ,be revived at Delaware Park in the course of the thirty days of racing that will begin on Decoration Day, May 30, and continue through the 4th of July. A ,000 added money dash of one mile and a sixteenth, set for Saturday, June 3, the Brandywine drew forty-five nominations at its April 19 closing, and foremost among them is William Woodwards brisk three-year-old Johnstown, winner of renewals already this spring of the Paumonok Handicap, the Wood Memorial and the Kentucky Derby, and suffering defeat for the first time in eight starts when Challedon and others beat him in the recent Preakness. With the big Jamestown colt in the Brandywine are Fighting Fox, brother of Gallant Fox, and winner last year of a Wood Memorial, and this year of a Jamaica Handicap; also Isolater, conqueror of Seabiscuit in last falls Manhattan Handicap at Belmont Park, and winner, besides of Diavolo and Aqueduct Handicaps, both at Aqueduct. CRACKS NOMINATED. Mrs. A. J. Abel is represented by that astonishingly consistent handicap horse of last fall, Honey Cloud; A. C. Compton, by Gerald and Clirigendaal; W. E. Boeing, by Grim Reaper and Piccolo; Donald P. Ross, by Masked General; Walter Brann owner of Challedon, by Challephen and Aethel-wold; Mrs. Parker Corning, by Thanksgiving; Kenneth Dawes, by Unfailing; Mrs. W. S. Kilmer, by Lucky Omen; Marshall Field, by Sir Damion; Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin, by Strabo; W. S. Kilmer, by Nedayr and Sun Alexandria; Mrs. E. Graham Lewis, by Pagli-acci and Burning Pace; Mrs. Colin MacLeod, by Pernie; J. A. Manfuso, by Ocean Roll; Ral Parr, by Hypocrite; Ogden Phipps, by Teufel; Gustave Ring, by Lady Maryland; Mrs. W. Plunkett Stewart, by Pasteurized; the Tomara Stable by Teddy Weed; Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, by Heelfly; Mrs. Louise ; Viau, by Conquer and Rex Flag; Mrs. B. F. Whitaker, by Sickle T.; B. F. Whitaker, by Mythical King. LESSER NOMINEES. Lesser nominations, recent form considered, are Brown Knight, Yellow Tulip, War Magic, Handcuff, Lovely Night, Bourbon King, Arabs Arrow, Shangay Lily, Last Message, Mr. Canron, Sun Inplay and Exploded. But any of these may step up at almost any time. Winning form in race horses is not a static thing. Practically all of the formidable Brandywine nominations, barring Johnstown, are Sussex eligibles too, with these notable additions: Donald Rosss Deil, Walter Branns Savage Beauty, the Christiana Stables Fox-shade, J. C. Clarks Pretty Pet, Edward Friendlys Jacola, William du Ponts Rose-retter, Mrs. Helen Hay Whitneys Birthday, W. E. Boeings Parscout, Thomas J. Healeys Tatterdemalion, Colonel Maxwell Howards 4. The Chief and Sceneshifter, Walter M. Jef-ords Jolly Tar, Mrs. Lewis Great Union, Townsend B. Martins Cravat, Mrs. L. H. Nimkoffs Roguish Girl, Thomas H. Somer-villes Flat Lance, and George D. Wideners Eight Thirty. NOTABLE VICTORIES. Victories this spring by the revamped Sir Damion in the Dixie Handicap renewal, by Teddy Weed in the 0,000 Tropical Handicap, and by Thanksgiving in the Philadelphia and Excelsior Handicaps, have thrust those stalwarts prominently into racings spotlight. Also Masked General, which trains at Delaware Park, has won an Old Dominion Handicap, at Pimlico; Heelfly, a Gittings Handicap, in which he licked Aethelwold, Kenty, Pompoon, Ocean Roll and Isolater; Pagliacci, a Newport; Honey Cloud, a Southern Maryland; Lady Maryland, a Carroll; Hypocrite, a Colonial; Jacola, conqueror of Seabiscuit in last falls Laurel Stakes, and winner of Maryland and Washington Handicaps as well. Tatterdemalion, winner of last years Tropical Handicap, lost last summers Sussex in a photographic finish to that splendid- mare, Marica, because he bore out right under the noses of the judges after apparently having Marica beaten a sixteenth of a mile out. The Sussex is a gallop of a mile and a quarter, with an added money value of 0,000. Its inaugural was won two summers back by Calumet Dick, with Esposa and Dark Hope crowding him hard.
