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Cooling Spring Tops Columbus Park Purse Field of Ten Named for Todays Feature Event at Sportsmans CICERO, 111., April 30. — The consistent performer, Cooling Spring, heads a field of 10 starters in the Columbus Park Purse, an allowance event that headlines tomorrows program. This race, which is for four-year-olds and older, is scheduled to be contested over the route distance of one mile and one-sixteenth for a purse of ,200. B. M. Smiths six-year-old son of Milkman and Afloat, came from well back in the Inaugural, which was at the seven-furlong route, to finish second to Brown China and was only beaten by one length. With the distance of the Columbus Park at a longer route, the Smith colorbearer should prove a very hard horse to defeat, with the light weight of 107 pounds. Chi, from the racing establishment of Mrs. A. M. Creech, looms as the horse to be most dangerous in the feature. This six-year-old gelding finished second to Bobs Way in the Cicero Purse in a distance test of a mile and seventy yards. With his recent works he should be right there at the finish. Next in line is the fleet Valdina Paul, from the stable of Butsy Hernandez. The four-year-old son of Sortie and Belle Weidel, has two victories to his credit this year and the route is to his liking. The Columbus Park Purse is rounded out with such high-class routers as Delray, Moselem, Three Bangs, Vegas Justice, One Jest, Idle Sun and Mordecai. For the most part, these horses have all been seen in action at this half-mile oval this season.
