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Maywood Closes Highly Successful Meet Tonight Direct Sun Clashes With Six Pacers in Mile Feature Race MAYWOOD PARK, Maywood, 111.. June 20. — Direct Sun, successful son of a great sire, Billy Direct, heads a field of six pacers in the feature mile event tomorrow night as Maywood Park closes its 1952 harness racing season. Owned by R. E. McKenzie of Lacrosse. Wis., Direct Sun was the scourge of the three-year-old class at Maywood last year, winning 10 of his 16 starts. The Billy Direct colt will start from the favored pole position with Don Busse driving. He ranks the overnight choice over Battle Prince. Scottish Boy, Terrywill, Dale Wingay and Laura Jane Tryax. Serious competition is expected from Battle Prince, owned by Otis Anderson of Lafayette, Ind., and Dale Wingay, owned by C. F. Rumley of Princeton, 111. Battle Prince won his last start in a fast 2:05%, within two seconds of the Maywood track record. Dale Wingay will be in search of his seventh success in 11 starts. Both Laura Jane Tryax and Scottish Boy have won on the Maywood oval, while Terrywill, after a good season last year as a three-year-old, still is without a victory in 1952. Red Scott, the Springfield, 111., veteran who has clinched the Maywood drivers championship, will go after his twentieth victory behind Imprudent in the eighth race, a B-class pace. Also in the field are Trywin, Jerry Mason, Tony Hal, Red Mc-Klyo, Counterpart Hanover, Flower Grattan and Dellwood. Maywood is closing the second most successful seaspn in its seven-year history with a nightly mutuel average of more than 85,000 and an attendance average of 6,100. Harness racing will return to May-wood August 11 when Aurora Downs opens a 10-week stand that will extend through October 18.
