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Run First Two-Year-Old Race at Fairmount Today Field of Ten Named for Event; Meeting Is Off to Banner Start FAIRMOUNT PARK, Collinsville, 111., May 27. — The 31-day meeting of the Fair-mount Park Jockey Club will open its first full week of racing tomorrow, following the first "dark" monday of the spring session. As predicted by general manager D. C. Burnett, the current season may be the best since the local management took over this plant. Saturdays opening-day crowd of 14,826 did not come up to expectations of the management, but the mutuel play of 58,990 was the largest opening-day handle since Burnett and his associates took over Fairmount Park. With resumption of the sport tomorrow, the first Ladies Day of the meeting will be in vogue. Racing secretary J. J. Klucina has arranged a fine program for the fair sex with three allowance races for horses of the older division, all at six furlongs, and the first two-year-old event of the season, also a non-claiming event, to be contested over the four-furlong distance. Holding the featured spot is the sixth race in which a field of 12 are entered. It brings together Bobbys Pride, Which Glint, Beric, Our Risk, Young Geordie, High Mow, Runaway, Omalisa. Winnebago, Kona Wind and the Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Shipp entry of Pipeliner and Tony G. Young Geordie is the only horse in the race who made an appearance on the opening-day program last Saturday. A field of 10 is named for the two-year-old race, fourth on the card, and it brings together some of the best juveniles on the grounds. Three of the youngsters, One Atom, Sunsleep and Capt. Patrick, will be making the first starts of their careers. Sprinters will have their inning tomorrow as three of the distance races in the condition book failed to attract enough horses to be programmed. Post time for the first race is 2:00 p. m.
