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Four Four Belmont Belmont Candidates Candidates Work Work Out; Out; Etelka Etelka Scores Scores Over Over Younger Younger Rivals Rivals Lincoln Top Event To Five-Year-Old Smith Mare Is Two Lengths Clear of March" Proudly; Skoronski Stars in Saddle By J. J. MURPHY Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON PARK, Homewood, HI., June 14. — The Greater Chicago Hotel Association Purse, feature race here today, drew a field of 12 to race one mile. The event was contested by 11 three-year-olds and one five-year-old, and age was triumphant when the oldster Etelka, was the winner. With jockey Paul Bailey Tiding for his second score of the afternoon, the mare came on the outside of March Proudly in the stretch to win drawing out under pressure. March Proudly held second place and Nugget Gold was third. Etelka, a daughter of Hash, was bred and is owned by Mrs. V. E. Smith. Her last successful jaunt was at Arlington Park in July of last year. She was making her first start of the season. Joe Graves, winner of his only start here, served as the pacemaker, closely followed by Irish Flare, with March Proudly not far removed. Rounding the stretch bend, March Proudly moved up on the outside to forge to the. front as they neared midstretch. It was then that Etelka began her successful charge on the outside. The Ghizeh was the favorite but was caught in close quarters next to the rail on the backstretch and was finally forced to ease back around the far turn. Hotel Men Swell Crowd A delegation of prominent Chicago hotel men were in the crowd of 8,404. The weather was clear and the track fast. Jockey Anthony Skoronski, who led the riders at Sportsmans Park, was very much in the limelight in the early races. Aside from winning boths ends of the Daily Double he was aboard My Wash, who was victorious in the fourth. My Wash, coming off a heavy track dash in which he finished third, found the fast track to his Continued on Page Th./ty-Six Count Turf in Excellent Move for Belmont Stakes Covers Three-Quarters in Going In 1 :U3/s; Royal Mustang Drills Continued from Page One :35, :47, :59, 1:12% and seven-eighths in 1:26%. As in his other trials since recovering from a suspected virus infection, Nullify didnt display too much finishing speed, but his closing rush has been demonstrated in many stakes the past two seasons. George D. Wideners Battlefield, who will probably be second choice to Count Turf in the Belmont, breezed six furlongs in 1:18 on the slower training track this morning. This was the fastest move of the morning at the distance on that strip. C. V. Whitneys Counterpoint, who broke a track record for a mile and a furlong while beating Battlefield in last Saturdays Peter Pan, merely galloped this morning, as did the other Belmont candidates. The other probables in the third and longest of the "Triple Crown" races are Cain Hoy Stables Battle Morn, King Ranchs Sonic, Brookmeade Stables Steadfast and Herman Delmans How, indicating a field of nine, the same as last year when King Ranchs Middleground scored the last victory of his career. How is the only question mark of this nine, but the fact that trainer Horatio Luro has been dickering with Kenny Church with a view to his flying from Chicago to ride the Princequillo filly and has said that she will definitely be entered for the state tomorrow morning, makes her at least a likely candidate. The style in which How won the Coaching Club American Oaks at a mile and three furlongs, suggests that she will have no trouble with the , Belmont distance. Actually, she has won at a furlong longer distance than any of the colts in the Belmont have yet been asked to travel in public and at 121 pounds is probably more favorably situated in the weight department than she will be in any of the filly-and-mare handicaps to which she is eligible. One other Belmont possibility is Whitneys Mameluke, who-came out on the track after the fourth race with Ray Adair in the saddle. After galloping around the huge strip accompanied by a lead pony, Mameluke broke off at the six-furlong pole, then breezed a furlong past the finish, getting the seven-eighths in 1:28. His fractions were :25YS, :49 and 1:15. The son of Mahmoud was going easily all the way and appeared to revel in the sloppy going, but owner Whitney said before the trial that he was an extremely doubtful starter in the Belmont.- "He has three splints on each front leg," Whitney said, "and I hate to race him, because I think he is really a very fine colt. If he doesnt go in the Beimont, I will put him away for a full year to give him time to do himself justice." i
