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Sixteen Early Nominees For Williams Handicap Chipamink Seen as Favorite for Fairmount Opening-Day Feature PAIRMOUNT PARK, Collinsville, 111., May 28. Racing secretary and handicap-per Henderson Van Zandt announced that he has already received 16 nominations for the six-furlong Ednyfed H. Williams Handicap, which inaugurates the 32-day Fair-mount Park Jockey Club meeting on Friday. Entries for the event were to close today, with weights and declarations tomorrow, and several more sprinters may be named for the dash before the closing date. All indications point to the most successful meeting ever staged at the popular local plant, with a capacity number of more than 600 horses stabled on the grounds. Chipamink looms as an outstanding contestant in the present list of nominations for the Ednyfed H. Williams Handicap, which is named in honor of the Illinois Racing Board chairman, who will be guest of honor for the initial day program. The E. H. Moody representative, which has not been postward since his purchase by Moody from the Silver Star Stock Farm last winter at the New Orleans Fair Grounds, has a performance record that places him high among the outstanding sprinters. The seven-year-old golden chestnut son of Peanuts has at one time or another shown his heels to several of the adjudged champion sprinters, and ran second in 1946 to Buzfuz in the first running of the 0,000 Governor Caldwell Handicap at Tropical Park in the track record time of 1:09 for six furlongs. Chipamink is reportedly in fine condition and should prove a worthy opponent for the remaining starters. John F. Becks Blue Mountain, recent winner in Chicago; Myrtle Maroon Stables Shuckins and Ganada, V. V. Long Jr.s Did-idida, Mrs. Leo Wagners Doc Wagner, and Enoch Reas Preco appear to present the most potent, threats to Chipaminks supremacy. The remainder of the nominations to date are Henry Matthews Ship Signal, a four-time winner at the Hipodromo de las Americas; Ira Gawthorps Calliope, S. D. Bakers stakes winner, Indian Watch; Fred Lowes Amalka, H. G. Knotts Hoosier Gal, and the C. and C. Bothman entry of Fly Out and Suede.
