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I I , I , i . | I . i . | i ] Franks Boy Is Decidedly Best in Alton Handicap Whips Clarksville Four Lengths As Maxiekin Takes Show Award COLLINSVILLE, 111., June 26.— Franks Boy, seven-year-old son of Galus — Red Cin-jders, who finished fourth in his only two starts here, sprang a surprise this afternoon at Fairmount Park in winning the Alton Handicap, headliner on a fine half -holiday program offered local racing enthusiasts by the Fairmount Jockey Club. The winner, ridden by apprentice William Bailey, came from behind the early pace to score by four lengths, defeating J. Greeners Clarksville, who closed with a cyclonic rush to take the place prize by a neck from Sam Rouchers Maxiekin, the latter serving as the public choice. In scoring his second victory of the year, Franks Boy raced the fastest six furlongs of the current session, traversing the sprint distance in 1:12%. There was a spirited battle for fourth money as Miss Ethel, Leslie Jarvis and Letter V finished noses apart at the end, [ with the former getting the nod. Flash i Town, C. C. Curtiss and Gold Mike made up , the nine-horse field. Humes and Sparrows Doubtful, who failed I to win a race last year, scored his first success . of 1943 in the Wood River Purse, secondary . feature on the program, at one mile . and seventy yards. Wally Humes, a native . of St. Louis, won the first race of his career ■ when he piloted Doubtful to his hard-earned i victory to take the decision by three-quarters of a length over Sun Pharos, the favorite. Gambit was third. Humes had the ultimate winner off flying and, kept under steadying restraint while making his own pace, Doubtful was drawing away to a good lead entering the stretch when he ran out moving past the judges stand, but he came again near the end to down Sun Pharos, who was almost on even terms in the last sixteenth of a mile. Two-year-olds furnished the sport in the fourth race, and Mrs. James Davis saw her colors carried to victory for the second time on the program when her consistent gelding Easy Quero scored a hollow victory in the five-furlong dash under the handling of apprentice R. Phelps, who also was astride his second winner. Bell Buzzer came from behind to take the place award, while Linn Creek saved the minor portion of the purse. Count Foray, coupled with Alger as the Earl B. Smith entry, was made the public choice here and, although Count Foray showed some speed for three-sixteenths, never threatened and Alger was always far back. It was the victors third straight triumph at the meeting. The program opened with a one mile and 70 yards event for three-year-olds and older, and the winner was furnished by H. F. Luer, whose four-year-old gelding, Lairds Cat, ridden by Joe Dyer, took the lead from Another Guess before reaching the half-mile post and was under double wraps thereafter until the last sixteenth when Hot Spark challenged. Dyer kept Lairds Cat going and he got a length decision. Hot Spark was second, and Jug Head saved the show. The winner was bred and raised by Harry Murdock at his IS Creek Side Farm, adjacent Fairmount 4 Park
