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► I ■ .■ ""■ ■ ■■.■ — "i ** fmffiyicisandBBtk. .0 % life. JOCKEY RONNIE BALDWIN — Guided Shotral and Blue Licks to victory on yesterdays Sportsmans Park program. Blue Licks Pays Visit to Winners Ring Favored My Time Second in Sprint Successful Smith Gelding Finishes on Extreme Outside To Gain Sportsmans Honors SPORTSMANS PARK, Cicero, 111., May 8. — Mrs. Sayde Smiths Blue Licks, starting for the third time at the meeting, carried top weight of 120 pounds to victory in the featured Kingston Purse here today. Although racing very wide in the stretch and finishing on the extreme outside, Blue licks bested the favored My Time in a drive with Clear Day, one of the early pacemakers, holding on to be a close-up third. The winner was handled by Ronnie Baldwin and it was the second success of the afternoon for the rider. Blue Licks, an outsider, paid 7.60 in the seven-furlong race. The Kingston was hotly contested, with Whitleather, who wound up in last place, setting the pace slightly in advance of Clear Day. The latter got through on the inside on the backstretch to assume an advantage of one length but My Time and Blue Licks charged nearing the stretch turn. Blue Licks went very wide rounding the bend, while My Time was also well out from the rail. Despite the fact that Clear Day was saving ground, the pair caught him near the end to battle it out. The winners margin was a neck. 10,485 View Program Racing patrons numbering 10,485 viewed the sport on the warmest day of the racing season to date and the track was fast. Box Trade and Night Fighter, a couple of well-played racers, were the respective winners of the first and second events and accounted for the 1 Daily Double, which was the second lowest of the meeting. Box Trade, ridden by Thearl Williams, was all out to beat Happy Age but Night Fighter, a William Hal Bishop horse, won in a common gallop with Harold Keene in the irons. The Bishop silks were seen in front for the second time during the day when Snap-heel accounted for his second straight purse. Jockey Keene sent Snapheel to the front early and the six-year-old was never in danger, beating Slumberland by seven lengths. Humphrey was also a repeater. * That five-year-old, with jockey Herb Litz-enberger up, showed the way throughout in the fourth to best the favored Roman Vulcan. Shotral, unplaced once at the meeting, was a surprise winner in the fifth and paid 0.20. Jockey Ronnie Baldwin rated the gelding back of Xalapa Pride and Very Special to the stretch, then sent him forward and his margin at the end was one length. It was the second start of the year for Shotral, who went postward 39 times last season.
