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Simms on Front End From Start to Finish Holds Two and Half Lengths Edge Over Pontalba at Suffolk By AVERY BROWN Staff Correspondent SUFFOLK DOWNS, East Boston, Mass., May 26. Simms, a five-year-old son of Princequillo Scotch Bonnet, owned by T. W. Smith, of Pawtucket, R. I., had clear sailing from start to finish in the featured mile and a sixteenth racand here this afternoon. Breaking alertly under jockey Marshall Wilder, the bay horse immediately took a two-length advantage and wound up two and a half lengths before F. Shaws-Pontalba. Anthoyn Cataldos Tilenny, a slight choice over the winner, was third in the field of five starters, another two lengths farther back. Although no rain fell during the afternoon, the track was sloppy from the rains which have been falling here since Sunday morning, and subsided about noon time. The 110 pounds that Simms carried in the middle distance feature failed to hamper his speed, as evidenced by the excellent time of 1:46. It was the first victory of the season for the Smith ace, and his stock for the Tomasello Memorial Handicap, Fridays feature at Suffolk Downs, went soaring. Simms gets in the holiday stake with 105 pounds. A crowd of 11,509 was on hand to help usher in the final half of Suffolk Downs current meeting. Those among the crowd who are followers of the proverbial "chalk" fared well, collecting in the fifth and sixth races with Balsa and Dauntedid. Simms just missed being the. choice in the feature by a couple of hundred dollars and paid .40. Apprentice "Tony" DeSpirito increased his lead over the other "bug" riders by annexing a pair of events in the earlier races. Llangollen Farms Dancing Man and Louie Barbieris Dauntedid scored for the lad from Lawrence, Mass.
