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Eight Eight Oppose Oppose Faultless Faultless in in Belmont; Belmont; Mighty Mighty Story Story Favored Favored for for La La Salle Salle Offer Attractive Lincoln Program Superwolf, Sandslinger and Three Other Routers Vie With Marschs Gray Colt HAWTHORNE, Cicero, III., May 30. The 1947 renewal of the 0,000 La Salle Handicap, which drew a small but select field of six good distance performers, is to headline a very attractive program tomorrow at this West Side track. While the La Salle occupies the feature spot on the half holiday card, the Paragram Purse, six and one-half furlongs for three-year-old fillies; the Watersplash Handicap, six furlongs for three-year-olds and upward, and the Step By Purse, six and one-half furlongs for three-year-olds of both sexes, drew top .fields and should aid materially in rounding out a day of excellent sport. John Marschs Mighty Story, quikc four-year-old gray son of Mahmoud and Little Lie, is assigned topweight for the La Salle and he will go postward under 123 pounds. Remembered by Chicago turf patrons for his victories last year in the Francis S. Pea-body Memorial and the Meadowland Handicap at Washington Park, the Marsch colt probably will answer the bugle as the choice over his five rivals. Victor in Two Illinois Stakes Mighty Storys 1946 record is quite impressive, the son of Mahmoud not only won two Illinois stakes but also accounted for the one mile and one furlong Discovery Handicap at Aqueduct, earning 3,975 during his three-year-old campaign. Mighty Story won an overnight allowance race at the Churchill Downs spring meeting and then finished second to Dark Jungle here in the recently-decided Stegier Handicap at six and one-half furlongs. The longer distance of the La Salle is expected to better suit Mighty Story and the Marsch star will be ridden in the stake by Anthony Sko-ronski. Valley View Farm is to be represented in the week-end headliner by Superwolf, who Continued on Page Three Mighty Story Goes In La Salle Today Superwolf and Sandslinger Among Five Rivals; Offer Attractive Lincoln Card Continued from Page One is assigned 115 pounds. Superwolf came up from Louisvilles Douglas Park where he underwent a useful prep for his seasonal debut and he is rated a dangerous threat in the La Salle field. The four-year-old son of Sweep All and Tootsie Cake raced rather well here last season accounting for a division of the Illinois Owners Handicap and also achieving major honors in the Charities Handicap at nearby Sportsmans Park. Theodore Muellers Shady Brook Farm silks are to be carried in the La Salle by Sandslinger, 112 pounds; R. W. Mcllvains hope is Old Kentuck, 106; Clyde Troutt will depend on Take Wing, 114, and Woolford Farm named its Sublime, 102 pounds. Sandslinger finished fourth in the six furlongs Bien Fait Handicap last week but, previous to that effort, he won the Blue Delight Handicap, defeating Bull Play, Wow, Take Wing and Chesty, among others. Old Kentuck always is dangerous at the longer distances, Take Wing compiled several stakes victories in his younger years, while Sublime, a Woolford homebred daughter of Lawrin and Mesa, won in Florida at one mile and one-quarter over a formidable band and she is favorably weighted for the. La Salle in which she may upset some of the better regarded starters. Freddie A. Smith, who handled Sublime in her Gulfstream engagements, will be at the reins on her tomorrow and he has no difficulty in making the feathery 102 pounds, impossible. Mrs. Reid Luginbuels Sugar Play and Walter W. Jones Bull Play will renew their duel tomorrow in the Watersplash Handicap. The pair finished a head apart in the Bien Fait Handicap, with Sugar Beet getting the decision after a sharp stretch duel. Bull Play is to shoulder 110 pounds, and Sugar Beet gets a similar burden in the secondary attraction. Allen and Strandlunds Bert is the top-weight for the six furlongs sprint under 115 pounds, and he won the Fulford Purse, the Palm Beach Purse, and dead-heated Dog OSullivan in the Sea Breeze Purse at Gulfstream Park last March. Rounding out the probable Watersplash starting field are Invercork, 105; Papaloi, a winner at the current meeting, 107; the very useful Hollyman, 114; Buck Rake, 102, and Mrs. A. M. Creechs Cid Play, 106 pounds, and coupled with Sugar Beet. Paragram Attracts Say Blue The Paragram will bring out Mrs. Albert Sabaths Say Blue, who won the 1946 renewal of the rich Princess Pat Stakes, and the Sabath miss will have to be at her best to earn a victory in her Illinois seasonal debut. Named to oppose Say Blue are such good ones as Brownian, Susie C, Last Stride, Miss Lelia H., Verona Sands, Suribachi and Rhodelin. Say Blue will carry equal top weight of 118 pounds with Brownian, and she will be ridden by the veteran Willie Garner. The Step By is another very classy event, and Dixianas Galloway, along with John Marschs Preoccupy, may get the major share of public support in the dash. Preoccupy is to take up 119 pounds under the allowance conditions, while Galloway gets in with 113 pounds. Gotham, a recent visitor to the local winners circle; Shadow Shot, Duck Berry, who has been working splendidly; Richwood Boy and Fifteenth round out the entrants for the Step By.
