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r Sir Francis Visits Winners Circle at Atlantic City Oval ATLANTIC CITY, Mays Landing, N. J., May 29. Sir Francis, a five-year-old son of Sickle Armada who was once good enough to run Pot o Luck to a head in the Champagne Stakes, showed more than a trace of his old form today when he out-gamed Pentin and the favored Dutch Raider to take the featured Imperial Potentate Hammers Purse in a stiff drive. The Sickle horse, reserved just off a swift pace by jockey Nick Jemas, found room at the rail at the furlong pole and then responded well to Jemas urging, first catching Dutch Raider and then holding Pentin by three parts of a length. Sir Francis, who in his stake-winning days carried the colors of George D. Widener, now races for Mrs. C. E. Nelson, and he was scoring his second victory in two starts this season, his first outing since late in 1945 having been at Hialeah in February. Favorites did well for the small off-day crowd of 6,000 out for the afternoons sport, most of the races falling to horses that had form to recommend them. The weather was sunny but windy, and the fast time recorded in the feature is all the more creditable considering that the field was finishing in the face of a stiff breeze.
