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Tide Rips Launches His Years Campaign Today Sharp Colorbearer to Engage Greek Warrior and Little Harp GARDEN STATE PARK, Camden. N. J., May 18. — Bayard Sharps Tide Rips, winner of last years Brandywine and. Monmouth Handicaps, belatedly launches his 1949 campaign tomorrow in the featured! Mt. Holly Purse, styled for four-year-olds! and upward. Tide Rips, a five-year-old son of Battleship and Sun Flo, is primarily a route runner and he would appear to have a rather stern assignment in tomorrows six furlongs dash. He will be opposed by Mrs. William G. Helis Greek Warrior, Grant Thorns Andy Handy, Shamrock Stables Little Harp, Mrs. J. V. Stewarts Singing Doll, Woodland Farms Picture Card, Golden Shoe Farms Roman Road, B. F. Christmas Red Herring and Mrs. E. Trunnells Ike Junior. With Delaware Parks Brandywine Handicap his immediate stakes objective. Tide Rips has been brought along steadily by his handler, the former steeplechase rider. Bill Passmore. Tide Rips has completed an extensive training period in New York and was shipped here with this prep race in view. Should he perform satisfactorily and without mishap, he will be transferred to the Wilmington course where he will wait the Brandywine, and later participate in the rich Sussex Handicap. Victory in those two fixtures will find him well on the road to equaling his 1948 record, during which he earned 6,250. Another former stake winner who will be making his seasonal debut is Greek Warrior, one of the few horses to sport the silks of Mrs. Helis. Still another stakes winner, and at sprint distances, is Little Harp, who carries the colors of Art Rooneys Shamrock establishment. Andy. Handy, like all other members of tomorrows Mt. Holly field, has yet to score a victory this season. Ike Junior and Singing Doll finished second and third, respectively, in a race here last week which was won by Pennon. Roman Road finished second to Fighting Mad in a recent engagement, while Picture Card and Red Herring have shown little this season. T
