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Broken Lens in Driving Score Over Thistle Jay Kerr Gelding Holds Half-Length Margin at End of Pompoon Purse By PALMER HEAGERTY Staff Correspondent PIMLICO, Baltimore, Md., May 15.— Dion K. Kerr, Jr.s, Broken Lens, after competing in allowance company for three consecutive starts, was dropped into a ,500 claimer for his engagement in this afternoons featured Pompoon Purse and scored a driving victory over Donald Katz Thistle Jay. The margin of victory was a bit less than a length, with G. A. Sacks Jofield three lengths farther back. Broken Lens, a three-year-old Contradiction gelding, was a co-favorite with Fourth Jack in the race and paid .80 as the first successful choice of the afternoon for the crowd of 9,013. He was timed in 1:47% for the mile and a sixteenth and was ridden by Nick Shuk, who holds a nar row advantage over Bobby Mitchell for saddle honors at the meeting. Coming in for a share of applause just before this event was outrider Johnny Shanks, who made an excellent catch of Marvin Gaines In A Spin. The Whirlaway colt had unseated jockey Charley Givens and made a mad dash past the stands. Shanks, ever alert, charged to the loose horse, made a daring grab and pulled up the loose horse while his pony was being herded into the inner rail. Broken Lens raced forwardly from the start of the Pompoon and engaged the leaders when able to secure racing room along the rail turning into the stretch. Thistle Jay, too, reached contention at this stage, only to lug in badly and lose what chance he possessed of outfinishing Broken Lens. Emilio Carrillo made a good effort to steady his mount and come on again, but that was too much to ask and he was beaten three-quarters of a length. Dillon G. Smiths For Rent, a gelded son of Occupy, who was acquired as a yearling for ,900, won his second race in eight days when he lasted by a head over R. P. Sherwins Miss Lyric in the five-furlong fourth event.
