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Lincoln Fields Notebook By J J MURPHY Good Field Expected for Lincoln Will Close Out Meeting on June 20 Five RecordHolders on Grounds GroundsHAWTHORNE HAWTHORNE Cicero 111 June 5 With the running of the Edward J Fleming Memorial Handicap tomorrow just two more stakes remain on the racing agenda for the Lincoln Fields meeting They are the Miss America Stakes for twoyearold fillies to be decided Saturday June 13 and the Lin ¬ coln Handicap to be run Saturday June 20 closing day of the ses ¬ sion The Lincoln is the only added money event over a distance for threeyearolds and upward on the Lin ¬ coln program and it could well turn out to be the most interesting affair of the entire meeting It may attract a few horses from the East to Arlington Park as well as several who are quartered here but have not started Among those are Smoke Screen regarded as the best horse at New Orleans last winter Happy Go Lucky and Oil Capitol Three Bings who made his midwestern debut here Thursday is another potential candidate The nonmudder while outrun in the six furlong sprint was going strongly at the finish and the mile and a sixteenth of the Lincoln will be more to his liking The Miss America usually attracts good fillies and last season two of the best in the nation battled it out with Biddy Jane setting a track record to defeat Sweet Patootite who ended up being voted the champion of her age and sex for the year yearWhen When Boomer set a track mark for seven furlongs on the turf here the other day he became one of five recordholders pn the grounds The others are Andy B W with the standards for six furlongs and one and onesixteenth miles Dr Ole Nelson with the mark for one and one quarter miles Inseparable who has the one mile turf mark and Bobs Ace who ran the fastest one and threesixteenths miles on the turf Andy B W has not started this year but Dr Ole Nelson and Inseparable have been postward and have raced below par Perhaps they are getting too old Dr Ole Nelson is seven and In ¬ separable eight The track record of longest standing here is the halfmile mark established by Zazone in 1895 The shortest race at this track for a number of years has been five furlongs Three marks were cracked last autumn Andy B W and Inseparable made their record runs within a week of each other while Sabaean established a new record for six and onehalf furlongs furlongsThe The Iroquois Farm for which a race was named recently is owned by Dr Robert Bob Butzow son of Frank Butzqw Dr Butzow is head of the horse clinic at the University of Illinois There is reported to be considerable coughing on the back stretch especially among the twoyearolds The men in charge of steel and steel construction have arrived at Lincoln Fields and the first girder on the reconstruction of the grandstand will soon be put in place John Poellien has sold the 60acre Rose day Farm at Roselle 111 to Arthur Longos of Chicago Poellien will continue to have a hand in the operation of the place and his son Charles will gallop the horses The fiveyearold mare Gambling Lady owned by Anthony Graf f agnini has arrived from Cleveland Jack Welch Tennessee owner and trainer was an arrival from fromNashville Nashville Ralph Salvino has taken over overthe the training of the seven yearold gelding Saint Nicholas for R Kassel KasselHollywood Hollywood Park may have their geese and Hialeah their flamingoes as infield adorments but the press boys here will take Hawthornes heifers In fact they did take one in part the other evening when Robert Carey staged the first press dinner of the season All agreed the heifer tasted better than it looked Track superintendent Chuck Miller said the de ¬ parted heifer would soon be replaced with a couple of Black Angus and the boys are already beginning to smack smacktheir their lips Incidentally Careys second secondson son Bob Jr is following in the foot ¬ steps of his elder brother Tom in ath ¬ letics Tom is Quarterback for Notre Dame and young Bob is the swimming champion of his school Announcer Dave Feldman wishes it known that lie is not afflicted with a throat ailment Says it is the public address system that makes his voice seem so fuzzy We agree Lincoln Fields Notebook NotebookBy By J J MURPHY Continued from Page Four Fourthat that he was in good voice the other eve ¬ ning after polishing off his second steak We might arrange an eating contest be ¬ tween Dave and Santa Anita announcer Joe Hernandez champion trencherman of the West Coast CoastAccording According to Illinois racing rules no horse can be entered after he passes the age of 12 and no maiden after passing the age of five William Hal Bishop the David Harum of Anna 111 did a bit of horse trading Friday morning He swapped Echo Rock to H J Seppenfield for Easter Airline and then sold the latter of J J Greggory He also sold Red Fiddler to H D Maggio and Gregory The fiveyear old mare Broadways Lady broke her leg during the running of the second race Thursday and was destroyed In the fourth race on the same day Golden Birch and Haberdashery came out with bowed tendons while Leucoton bowed a tendon in the first race Patio Patter and Lovely Devil owned by Marion VanBerg have been shipped to Detroit by trainer K D Kepler
