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Representative Field of Six In Suffolks Shawsheen Purse PurseSUFFOLK SUFFOLK DOWNS East Boston Mass May 3 rThe Shawsheen a mile and a six ¬ teenth affair for a purse of 3500 features tomorrows card as Suffolk Downs settles into its third week of the 42day spring meeting Conditions of the Shawsheen call for threeyearolds and older that have raced for a claiming price of 15000 or less since October 1 last year and attracted six betterthanaverage thoroughbreds thoroughbredsTopweight Topweight and probable choice of the small field goes to Colgate Farads Naval Base who turned in a dull effort to disap ¬ point his backers in the Governors Handi ¬ cap last Saturday The Invermark gelding must pick up 120 pounds nine more than Mort Stuarts Our Bully is slated to carry The fiveyearold evidently found the pace too hot for him in the mile weekend fea ¬ ture and faded badly in the late stages He pulled up sound and apparently none the worse for his effort Any semblance of early season form at Bowie should find Naval Base regain his winning ways at the expense of this lineup lineupChief Chief contender for top honors in the Shawsheen should come from P Randos Camps First The aging gelding was beaten a length and a quarter by Harry Stutts hardhitting Golden Thorn recently in an effort that stamps him a definite threat here With better racing luck Camps First may have been second in his only local ap ¬ pearance Tomorrows weight is 106 eight less than carried in the above mentioned
