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JOHNSTOWN VERSUS CHALLEDON AND FIVE OTHERS MEET IN DWYER STAKE Carter Handicap Also Draws Crack Field of Sprinters. Aqueduct Offering One of the Most Attractive Programs of Year — ■ Dwyer May Settle Title. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 16.— Aqueducts patrons are to be treated Saturday to what racing secretary-handicapper John B. "Jack" Campbell declared is "one of the bf t cards, if not the best, Ive ever seen." The full import of this commendation may be appreciated when it is taken into account that for more than a quarter of a centu; . Campbell has been serving as a racing official on major tracks throughout North America. The outstanding event of the glittering Saturday program is the fifty-first running of the famous Dwyer Stakes, 0,000 added, mile and a furlong race, for three-year-olds. For this event — run as the Brooklyn Derby prior to 1918 — seven crack eligibles were named overnight. While the number of entrants proved a distinct surprise to the racing secretarys office, the feeling holds that not more than four or five horses will go postward. FITZSIMMONS SURPRISE. James "Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons, veteran trainer for William Woodward, sprung a surprise when he named in addition to that gentlemans Belair Studs Johnstown, the roan colt, Thellusson, which won on Thursday at the Queens County Jockey Clubs course. While it is true that Thellusson only galloped to win his Thursday outing and thus boost his string of triumphs to three straight, there is considerable doubt that the son of Gallant Fox and Tetra Lass will be sent back so soon. The entries of William L. Branns Preak-ness winner, Challedon, and of the Saratoga Stables Volitant, the Shevlin winner, occasioned no surprise. It is a matter of fact most of the students of form have predicted that Johnstown, Challedon and Volitant and, probably the Millsdale Stables Sun Lover, would be the only ho.rses named. Sun Lover was named. And, in addition, trainer Lee McCoy entered Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilts Trailer, and trainer Matt Brady came through wit*1 tn entry of William Zciglcr, Jr.s, Time Sheet. SEE ONLY FOUR STARTERS. Supporting the general belief that the Dwyer starting field will include hardly more than four horses, was the fact that only four of the seven entrants were on the track this morning for work. Johnstown breezed a half-mile in :47%; Volitant breezed a similar distance in :47.-,, and Challedon, also breezing, went four fui longs in :49"-;. Sun Lover went a handy five-eighths in 1:02.-,. Each of th«se horses appealed to be razor-sharp and fit for the battle of their lives. The forty-first running of the ,500 added, seven furlongs Carter Handicap, which will Continued on thirty-ninth page. i . . J 1 1 j J f 1 J ■ / i in t » a « P. = JOHNSTOWN VS. CHALLEDON AND FIVE OTHERS Continued from first page. be the fourth race tomorrow at Aqueduct, and the supporting feature, also drew a surprisingly large number of entrants. Named for this feature, which seldom has been won by anything but a top-flight horse, were Mrs. Parker Comings Thanksgiving, Belair Studs Fighting Fox, Maxwell Howards The Chief and Sceneshifter, A. G. C. Sages Entracte, J. B. Partridges Our Ketcham, J. Y. Christmas Rough Time. Myron Selznicks Cant Wait, Marshall Fields Sir Damion, and Mrs. F. Ambrose Clarks Lovely Night. The last-named horse and Entracte will be coupled in the wagering, inasmuch as each is trained by Henry McDaniel. There really is a third race on the pro- gram of stake proportions. This is the Lion Heart, a steeplechase at about two miles, with an estimated worth of ,935. Seven smart timber-toppers were named for this affair. They are Greentree Stables Horn- burg and Sumatra, Holmdel Stables Carter-moor, H. E. Talbotts Big Rebel and Ship Executive, E. Pfizers Farndale, and Greton Stables One Round. The Lion Heart, named for a famed jumper, will be the second race of the day. GOOD CARD. The balance of the card, which lists nary a claiming event, is made up of a test for maidens, three-year-olds and upward, a five furlongs dash for two-year-old maidens, and two class "C" handicaps, one at seven fur- longs and the other at a mile and five-sixteenths. There is a chance that the Dwyer will go a long way toward settling definitely the championship of the three-year-olds. If Johnstown, the son of Jamestown and La Fiance, which boasts to date this year of triumphs in the Kentucky Derby, the Pau-monok Handicap, the Wood Memorial, the Belmont Stakes and the Withers, a,s well as in an overnight race, wins as most racing enthusiasts expect him to do, he is pretty certain to clinch the title no matter what happens later. But, if Challedon, which scored a brilliant victory in the Preakness, whipping Johns- town by about eleven lengths, should win j the championship will remain in doubt, b Should Volitant or one of the other starters j "tip over the dope" and whip the two lead-"j ing candidates for the championship, the -race for leadership will be thrown wide open, j. There is a chance that Johnstown and li Challedon will clash next Saturday at Dela- n ware Park, in the Kent Handicap, and a a a better chance that they will engage each other next month at Arlington Park, in the s rich Classic Stakes. /- However all this may be, Johnstown is o bound to go postward choice in tomorrows v Dwyer, and at prohibitive odds. In the b minds of most followers of the horse, only fi rain and mud will give Challedon a chance v to win. And so far as the majority of rac- ii in j b j j. li n a a s /- o v b fi v ii in ing fans are concerned, the race is strictly between these two. In the Carter, the Sage-Clark entry of Lovely Night and Entracte probably will vie with Sir Damion for favoritism. The last-named horse has been working brilliantly since he tossed up the sponge after making the pace for a mile in the mile and quarter Suburban Handicap. Lovely Night gained great favor as a speedster in winning the recent Queens County Handicap, in which he was timed, oficially, at 1:36-5 for the mile, and, privately, at 1:35 V5. The latter time betters by a considerable margin the track record for the distance. Entracte was an easy winner of a class "B". six furlongs handicap, his most recent outing.
