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Attention Surprise Entry in Grey Lag Seven Routers Vie In Cicero Offering Valdina Paul and Running Mate, Allenjay, Top Field In Sportsmans Headliner CICERO, 111., May 8. — Sportsmans Park, Chicagos half-mile oval, offers one of the best programs of races tomorrow that has yet been carded since racing was resumed here this spring. Racing secretary Patrick C. Galliger has brought together the best thoroughbreds that are stabled in this area for this program. All eight races are packed with plenty of potential contention and for the most part have full fields. The Midwest Athletic Club Purse, a handicap styled for three-year-olds and upward, to be contested over the route distance of one mile and one-sixteenth for a purse of ,500, headlines the card. This event brings out the best routers yet to race over this course since this meeting got under way. Although only seven have been named overnight to vie for honors, turf patrons are assured a thrilling contest. The Hernandez stable will be represented by an entry of Valdina Paul and Allenjay. Valdina Paul, a four-year-old son of Sortie and Belle Weidel, a winner of his last race here, will most likely go postward as the public choice as he defeated a band of sprinters by a good four lengths and was going away at the finish in a seven-furlong dash last out. This colt has shown that he can go the longer routes and, with the promise of a fast track, should have little trouble in taking care of this field. Three Clovers Dangerous R. G. Whittingtons Three Clovers, a winner of his last start, appears as the one to provide the stiffest competition in this mile and one-sixteenth test. His last winning effort was at seven-eighths, but, going back over his previous races, he has shown that the longer routes are to his liking. Allenjay, the other half of the Hernandez entry, a surprise winner in his last start, at the same distance that he will be required to go in the headliner of the Saturday program, looms as the one that will be hard to handle in the final accounting. The others who are scheduled to face the starter are such routers as Vinum, Bobs Way, One Jest and Relious, all of whom have raced with good success at this meeting in the past. The secondary feature, which will be decided over the short sprint course of five furlongs, brings together Equistar, Ballin-derry, Future Winning, Valdina Groom, O. K. Mullen, Try Fin, Cam Fin, Golden Goose, Crossbow II. and T. M. Dorsett. This event should be a thrilling battle from start to finish as it is packed with fast breakers. Whether or not Whirlaway is destined to become worlds money-winning champion is a question that came sharply to the hands of thousands who watched his scintillating stretch run in the Dixie at Pimlico on Wednesday. When Whirlaway went to California last winter to prepare for the Santa Anita Handicap, the eyes of the racing world were upon him. Returning East with nothing more than a California vacation to show for the long trip, he soon demonstrated that he was still on the hunt for the Biscuits crown. A victory in the Clark Handicap and Dixie Handicap narrowed the margin to approximately 6,000. When we realize that the 0,000 Suburban, 0,000 Massachusetts Handicap and such later rich events as the New York Handicap are still before him, the earnings of 00,000 looms as a possibility before another year rolls over the hill. Barring the unforeseen, he seems a certainty to pass Seabiscuit and could do it before the racing scene moves to the Upstate Spa. He must win, of course, but fans who saw the Dixie are certain to counter any doubts with the question "Whos going to stop him?"
