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Lin wood Jim Shows Good Form in Suffolk Score Whips What a Play, Halbarail j In Featured Highlands Purse SUFFOLK DOWNS, East Boston, Mass., June 25. Right up in the theater of contention from the very start, although yielding the pace temporarily, W. J. Beatties Linwood Jim took down the victory in the Highlands Purse, sixthand feature event, before 14,025 enthusiasts at Suffolk Downs today. The five-year-old son of Jean Bart carried the top weight of 115 pounds, but handled by jockey F. McGowan, stayed right where he could take command and thus disposed of A. H. Fosters What a Play, at better than 90-1 odds, who finished second, and Mort Stuarts Halbarail, the favorite, who staged a stretch charge to take third money. Fourth was A. Vio-lettes Night Bomber. The early running of this mile and a sixteenth event found Snafu, Linwood Jim and. What a Play battling for the lead and the three ran like a team to the half-mile pole. Here, What a Play took over the pace by a scant margin and Yukon moved on the outside as if he would charge up there. Night Bomber likewise moved up fast, while Halbarail was well out of it. At the turn for home, Linwood Jim went to the front and What a Play was the only one able to keep going with him. In the meantime, Halbarail suddenly came charging down the stretch, but the race was all settled by that time and the only change was that Halbarail took third money. Although two favorites did win, these being Mrs. I. Gushens Resolute LL in the third and Mack Brothers Jr.s Big Brothers in the fourth thereby breaking the blank that had extended two days it still was a rough day for the form players. J. L. Mc-Knights Lunch Date in the first race, was cut down during the early running of that dash and did manage to finish, but thats about all. D. Cowans Balmy Spring was nipped in the final strides in the second race; Morris Wexlers Quien Es was a sluggish fourth in the fifth, and Halbarail started too late in the sixth.
