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Lincoln Fields and Belmont Park Offer Attractive War Relief Programs Today Fifteen Handicap Aces in Suburban SuburbanMeeting Meeting of Devil Diver and Sun Again Lends Additional Interest to 50000 Stake StakeELMONT ELMONT L I N Y May 29 New York turf fans will see their biggest day of racing during the spring season at Bel ¬ mont Park tomorrow when the 50000 Suburban Handicap will highlight a spar ¬ kling program of eight races and the en ¬ tire net profits will go to the National War Fund American Red Cross and a group of Long Island hospitals It is estimated that approximately 150000 will be raised for these causes on this second of a series of 10 days which the five Metropolitan racing associations are devoting to War Relief in addition to the Victory meeting which will follow the regular season seasonFifteen Fifteen have been named for this fifty eighth running of the historic Suburban headed by Greentree Stables handicap champion of the young season Devil Diver who will carry 130 pounds The son of St Germans Dabchick has a running mate in the overnight entries in the name of Four Freedoms who gets in with 116 pounds and was the star of the Florida season during which he won the rich Wid ener Cup and the Tropical Handicap Eddie Arcaro is slated to be astride the devil with Ted Atkinson to ride Four Freedoms FreedomsSun Sun Again Carries 128 128There There is little doubt that the Greentree entry will be solid choices in the Suburban but there is no doubt whatever they will know they have been in a horse race before the end of this mile and onequarter is reached The 13 who will oppose Mrs Payne Whitneys duo include all the lead ¬ ing handicap horses in serious training and several of them could win without causing any great surprise surpriseThose Those who are named to go postward with the favored pair are Calumet Farms Sun Again and Son of Peace with 128 and 109 pounds respectively William Helis Rounders and R A Cowards Marriage with 119 each Ensign Townsend B Mar ¬ tins Bolingbroke 118 A C Ernsts Al quest and Aletern who are to carry 115 115Continued Continued on Page TwentyFour War Relief Day at Belmont Park Suburban Draws Field of Fifteen Meeting of Devil Diver and Sun Again Lends Additional Interest to 50000 Stake StakeContinued Continued from Page One and 108 respectively William Zieglers Wait a Bit 114 A J Sacketts Tola Rose and Hal Price Headleys Anticlimax with 108 each Pfc T H Heard Jrs Boysy 105 and WL Ranchs Paperboy and Belair Studs Trierarch the lightweights of the party with 100 pounds apiece This is ob ¬ viously a formidable field and should pro ¬ duce a race long to be remembered rememberedThe The Suburban was inaugurated in 1884 when E J McElmeels General Monroe beat War Eagle and Jack of Hearts among others and earned 4945 If all 15 go postward in tomorrows renewal the win ¬ ners share of the purse will be 40540 plus 1500 to the breeder Only three winners of the Suburban have carried as much weight as Devil Diver is asked to tote They were the amazing Whisk Broom II who packed 139 pounds and set the disputed American record of 200 Grey Lag who took up 135 pounds in 1923 and Equipoise who won with 132 in 1933 The value of this handicap classic has varied appreciably with the years and was boosted this year from 30000 to 50000 in added money but the quality of its win ¬ ners has remained consistently high sur ¬ prisingly few relatively inferior horses hav ¬ ing managed to steal it itUnbeaten Unbeaten in Three Starts This Season SeasonDevil Devil Diver has won his three starts of the 1944 season in sensational style having yet to be seriously extended He drops four pounds tomorrow probably because of the added distance distanceAlquest Alquest was closest to Devil Diver at the end of the Metropolitan finishing a length and onehalf back He adds six pounds while the favorite drops four fourSun Sun Agains two principal efforts this year were a three lengths victory in the rich Dixie Handicap at Pimlico in which Rounders Alquest Anticlimax and Four Freedoms finished behind him and a nar Suburban Handicap 50000 Three Year Olds and Upward One and OneQuarter Miles PP Horse Jockey I Wait a Bit G L Smith 2 Anticlimax J Lynch 3 Devil Diver E Arcaro 4 Paperboy No Boy 100 100WMehrtens 5 Tola Rose WMehrtens 108 6 Boysy No Boy If5 7 Bolingbroke R Permane 118 8 Marriage GWoolf 119 9 Four FreedomsT Atkinson 116 10 Rounders N Jemas 119 11 Son of Peace C McCreary 109 12 Sun Again C McCreary 128 13 Alquest J Longden 115 14 Aletern H LindbergT 108 15 Trierarch No Boy 100 100Coupled Coupled Devil Diver and Four FourFreedoms Freedoms Son of Peace and Sun SunSun Sun Again Alquest and Aletern row defeat by the latter colt in the Wid ener at Hialeah He will probably be sec ¬ ond choice in the wagering wageringBolingbroke Bolingbroke has a fondness for this track but it is questionable if he has the speed to cope with the stars in trie Sub ¬ urban at a mile and onequarter prefer ¬ ring a bit more ground Marriage who will be ridden by George Woolf presents the intriguing combination of a money horse and money rider riderWait Wait a Bit had early speed in the Metro ¬ politan then showed no lick whatever in a subsequent dash Boysy appears a bit shopworn this season seasonThe The supporting feature of tomorrows program is the Eight Thirty Handicap a 4500 dash at six furlongs which has drawn five of the better threeyearolds threeyearoldsSeveral Several Suburban candidates breezed cleverly on Sunday and Monday morning Sun Again did a handy mile in 143 on the main track at Belmont on Sunday while Wait a Bit breezed a half in 52 over the same strip Devil Divers final was a speedy five furlongs in 59 handily Tola Rose skipped a half in 51 this morning breezing Alquest worked last week in sen ¬ sational fashion going a mile and a fur ¬ long in 153
