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Twenty-Five Still Pointing For Miss America Stakes Lincoln Race Expected to Be Split If as Many as 20 Pass Entry Box HAWTHORNE, Cicero, 111., June 5.— The big question concerning. Lincoln Fields 0,000 Miss America Stakes for two-year-old fillies Saturday is whether the race will be split into two division or be run with one big field. Of the 32 original nominees, only | seven were definitely out 24 hours before I entries close tomorrow morning. This left 25 whose owners and trainers were scanning the weather reports and speculating over track conditions, to say nothing about the plans, intentions and prospects of their numerous rivals. Neither the Miss America nor the Joliet Stakes, from which the filly event is an offshoot, ever has been run in two divisions, but that is likely to happen • Saturday if as many as 20 are named through the entry box tomorrow. Two of the most prominent candidates for the Miss America arrived from Detroit. -These are Biddy Jane, owned by.JR. Collins, of the Motor City, and Mrs. E. E. Dale Shaffers Sweet Patootie. Sam Bryant Ott,- Kentucky horseman whose grandfather trained Proctor Knott to beat the great Salvator in the first Westchester Futurity in 1888, had several nominees for the Miss America, but is expected to start only one of them. That one, however is regarded as being among the most formidable. She is Arab Actress, a chestnut daughter by Boojums son, Burg-El-Arab, out of Center Stage, by Bull Dog, bred and owned by Mrs. H. J. Damm, of Indianapolis. Arab Actress finished third in her first start on May 1 at Churchill Downs. She won her next start a week later by four lengths. Second that day was another Miss America candidate, Mrs. Lora Birrs Belle Revoke; while two others; F. L. Flanders Burma Girl and Mrs. T. M. Pruetts Vezlark, finished in a dead heat for third. The latter had won previously at this meeting. Among the numerous winners pointing for the Miss America are two who broke their maidens here at Lincoln Fields meeting. On the same day, May 28, Clifford Lusskys Tuonine and Douglas M. Davis Admirals Wave earned their first brackets, each beating several other Miss America candidates, Admirals Wave defeated F. L. Flanders Smart Cookie and Carmody Van-scoys Burnt Look, while Tuonine scored handily over Mrs. O. S. Demings Stephens Girl, Belle Revoke, H. C. Bockmans Sweet Mural, Smith and Howells Sir Tenayr, and Flanders other Miss America nominee, Burma Girl. Several Miss America nominees breezed during early work hours Thursday, including Bockmans Sweet Mural and Clifford Mooers Gifted Gal.
