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1 ; I k 3 : Tomasello Memorial Is Next at Suffolk Downs Expect Top Field of Sprinters To Compete in Holiday Event BOSTON, Mass., May 23. Well ahead of last years figures for attendance and mutuel play, the sixty-day meeting which the Eastern Racing Association currently is conducting at Suffolk Downs moves into its third week .Monday. Feature of the program during the next six days will be the Tomasello Memorial Handicap, ,000 added six-furlong affair, which will be run for the fifth time next Saturday. This event is expected to bring together a fine field of sprinters. Among those Charley McLennan, racing secretary at the Boston track, expects to accept the weight assignments which he will issue Monday are Mrs. Robert Campbells Hicomb, Mrs. J. Yancey Christmas Rough Time, Mrs. Tilyou Christophers Doublrab, Robert W. Collins Sweet Willow, E. C. Eastwoods Challamore, Benj amin F. Listers Bull Brier, John R. Macombers Red Vulcan, J. W. Y. Martins Abrasion, Charles E. Nelsons Johnnie J., Bernard B. Robinsons Woof Woof and John L. Sullivans Transfigure. Doublrab May Come From New York While Doublrab is in New York at the present time, it is- expected that he will be shipped up to fill his engagement. The Illinois-bred son of imported Sherab won two sprint handicaps the Spring Handi-l cap and the Bristol Handicap and fin- ished second to Robert W. Collins Sweet Willow in the Blackstone Valley Handicap during the Narragansett Park meeting. ghould he go to the post, he would receive plenty of support on the .strength of his showing in New England already this sea- son. Another meeting between Doublrab and Sweet Willow would be welcomed by those who fancy sprint races. The Lee O. Cotner mare ran one of her better races in ac-5 counting for the Blackstone Valley and Continued on Page Nine , , , ; , . . Tornasello" Memorial Is Next at Suffolk Downs-Expect Top Field of Sprinters To Compete in Holiday Event Continued from Page Five when she is "good it takes a hard-hitting" horse to whip her. Not that past renewals of the Tornasello Handicap have lacked thrills. The event, which was named for the late Joseph A. Tornasello, the contractor who built the track and a stockholder in the Eastern Racing Association, was inaugurated in 1938. Deliberator was returned winner that year in advance of Zoic and Clocks. Battle Jack accounted for the next running of the race, before Clodion and Zoic, in 1939. The 1940 renewal went to Morcarine, a hardhitting filly, as Night Editor and Allegro accounted for the minor "awards. Last year Sweet Willow, who is expected to accept the issue again this year, turned in a sensational performance as she went the six furlongs in the sparkling time of 1:10 under 119 pounds to finish before Air Brigade and Sassy Lady.
