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RUN BROOKLYN TODAY Eight Named Overnight for Famous Old New York Fixture. Our Ketcham Considered the Only Doubtful Starter — Cravat Top Weight in 0,000 Race. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 23.— The fifty-I first Brooklyn Handicap, which is to be the i | fifth and banner offering today at Aqueduct, ! promises to be a race that is a race. The j | field isnt as fancy, perhaps, as fields in some of the past renewals, but it has at-1 , tracted a majority of the top-flight handi- j i cap performers now sound of wind and ; limb and in good health. The 0,000 mile and a furlong special which had its inception way back In 1887, j when it was introduced at Gravesend by the old Brooklyn Jockey Club, attracted eight ; overnight entries. Of these, at least seven were regarded as certain starters. The lone j "doubtful in the band is J. B. Partridges I Our Ketcham, the light weight of the party j under 97 pounds. The field, listed according to post positions, is as follows: Our Ketcham, 97, R. Nash; Brookmeade Stables Handcuff, 108, N. Wall; Belair ! Studs Fighting Fox, 114, J. Stout; Myron1 Selznicks Cant Wait. 112, J. Wagner; Al-, fred Gwynne Vanderbilts Heelfly, 112, L. Fallon; Townsend B. Martins Cravat, 126, B. James; Maxwell Howards The Chief, 112, S. Renick, and Mrs. Parker Comings ! J Thanksgiving, 121, R. Workman. RULES EARLY CHOICE. Off his convincing victory at Belmont Park on May 30 in the mile and a quarter , Suburban Handicap, Cravat ruled the early choice for the Brooklyn renewal. The four-year-old bay son of Sickle and Frilotte is | regarded by some observers as an outstanding candidate for the championship of this I ■ years handicap performers. He is the top i j weight for the rich fixture, and with the clever James on his back, no doubt will make his opposition run its legs off to beat ! | him. While the Martin star is favored by the | rank and file of racegoers, here and there Continued on thirty-ninth page. - RUN BROOKLYN TODAY Continued from first page. i ■ it is pointed out that he is by no means in- vincible. These observers go back to the 1 Dixie Handicap last spring at Pimlico in •which Cravat, third choice to Heelfly and ! the co-second choices, Jacola and Pompoon, could finish no better than eighth. In that important mile and three-sixteenths stakes he was defeated by Sir Damion, Tatterdemalion. Jacola, Thanksgiving, Aethelwold, Brown King and Heelfly. I It is true, however, that Cravat made ■ amends for his disappointing performance in the Dixie when he drubbed Thanksgiving, Handcuff, Pompoon, Heelfly and Sir Damion in the Suburban. 1 ATTRACTING MOST ATTENTION. While Cravat has been attracting most , i attention so far as the Brooklyn is con 1 cerned, and while Thanksgiving, Handcuff 1 and Heelfly have shaped up as his most 1 formidable rivals, James "Sunny Jim" Fitz-simmbns has let it be known that he has considerable confidence in Fighting Fox. This four-year-old full brother to Gallant t Fox came to life in last Saturdays Carter 1 Handicap. The son of Sir Gallahad III. and i Marguerite won the seven furlongs special s by a half dozen lengths, and in new track I record time— l:224r,. If he shows that kind i of speed today, he might very easily take * the lead at the break and never be headed, a a Generally, Fighting Fox is regarded as a I sprinter and only a sprinter. However, he t is no stranger to distance running. No F longer ago than May 6 he came within a t head of whipping Thanksgiving in the mile and a sixteenth Excelsior Handicap at Ja- 1 maica. Behind him in that test were h Tatterdemalion, The Chief, Grey Gold, r Mythical King and Unselfish. Fighting Fox i cut out the running in the Excelsior and s weakened only in the final strides. It is a , i 1 1 1 t 1 i s I i * a a I t F t 1 h r i s a to to hi generally admitted that he is a much better JJ horse today — or. at least that he was a much better horse last Saturday — than he was on ,„ Excelsior day. J Pi FALLON ON HEELFLY. Leo Fallon, the Baltimore lad who at times has ridden brilliantly, returns to New York from Delaware Park to ride Heelfly and once more don the popular Vanderbilt ac silks. This lad knows the temperamental w] Heelfly better, perhaps, than any other rider I 0 o in the country, and might succeed in getting I | w] who him to run like he can run. Unquestionably G. G. top-flight handicap performer, the son of si: Royal Ford and Canfli is a risky proposition, M because of his savage performance at the post and because of his habit of doing his best only when the notion strikes him. Marked improvement is expected today in The Chief, a horse which so far this season has done little except disappoint his ad- N mirers. In the Carter he flashed promise Be in that he closed rapidly and made up tu some ground. Cant Wait and Our Ketcham and an are regarded as the outsiders in the field. pa
