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: ; ; * i - i • ■ J 1 - 5 . s t I i ? i i ! i 1 i i i 1 s - ; Diamond Ring Handicap Feature at Ascot Park Scrub Likely Favorite in Spite of 125-Pound Impost; Love Lock Foe By RONALD KRANCER Staff Correspondent ASCOT PARK, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, May 15. — One of the annual highlights of the Ascot Park meeting is the running of the Diamond Ring Handicap, which is up for decision tomorrow over a mile and one-sixteenth route, with a beautiful diamond ring being presented to the winning owner. A field of 10 horses has been named overnight to face starter Eddie Anthony and a majority of those entered are very much in the Gold Cup picture. The field will line-up as follows: A. W. Messersmiths Scrub at 125 pounds; Wil-mer C. Ensors Love Lock, in with 116; Mrs. Betty Webbers Beech Hill, 113; H. L. McDonalds Even Better. 112; Sheppard and Mazzas Country Editor, 109; Frabotto and McColloughs Bold Arrow, 108; Leo Eich-lers Cockpit, 108; E. Davis Locadah, 107; S. Stengers Rapid Robert, 102, and Babe Papkes Fifan, in with a feathery 99 pounds. Scrub, although in with a heavy impost, must be accorded a slight edge in this event. The gelded son of Challador was given a tune-up here yesterday at four and one-half furlongs and racing under his own courage, closed well in the final three -I sixteenths. Scrub wound up next to last in that event, but is not suited for a sprint, Before tasting defeat yesterday, he had won his only two starts of the season, both scored over the local track. William Hawks- worth is scheduled to ride the gelding once again tomorrow. Love Lock, a six-year-old daughter of Lochinvar, who usually runs without the benefit of a whip, figures to be a keen factor in this race. She has been a winner just once this season at Charles Town but the hard-hitting mare with jockey Robert Gordon in the saddle will make a formid-t able pair. Beech Hill, the newest addition to the Jimmy Price barn, comes into the race with an enviable record compiled this past win-J ter at Hialeah and Gulfstream Parks. Beech Hill, who can "run all day," won himself five races at those plants and should be very dangerous here. He will probably be handled by the veteran Jimmy Baird. Of the others entered. Even Better would have to be accorded the edge. In one of the Saturday features early in the meeting he came from well off the pace to score an impiessive three-quarter length decision over Bold Arrow. Also running behind Even Better that afternoon were Locadah and Cockpit, all members of this field.
