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3 On the Trot | l By MOBRIE KURLANSKY I Increase Maywood Purses June 15 _ Giye Better Purses to Better Horses , ° Fairbanks Outduels King Gaines S MAYWOOD PARK, Maywood, 111., June 13.— Representatives of the Illinois Harness 1 ■7 Horsemen Association met with the May- wood Park management last week regarding a possible increase in purses and vice-president and general L manager Al DeMeo in recognition of the excellent racing show put ; on by the horsemen this spring which in turn resulted in an appreciable increase in play at the River Road oval announced that J some substantial changes in the present purse schedule will be made effective .Monday, on June 15. This gesture on part of J] DeMeo has been welcomed by the horse- men gives the public a virtual guarantee § that racing will continue on a high plane throughout the remainder of the present Maywood meeting .which ends on July 4. Special emphasis was laid by DeMeo on a policy to give better purses to better horses, and therefore purses for class 25 trotters and pacers will remain as before at the 00 level. Racing secretary Ted Xeonard, however, told horsemen that his condition .book for the remaining four weeks of racing at- Maywood Park will contain a minimum of these races for green and inexperienced horses. Purses for the money-winning classes 24 to 22 will be pegged at 00, . an increase of 00. In the classified races horsemen will benefit by the following in-t creases : Class C from 50 to 00, class CC from 00 to 00, class B from 50 to 1,000, class BB from 900 to ,050, class A from ,000 to ,250, and class AA from ,250 to ,500, while the free-for-all faces have been raised from ,500 to ,000. Two-year-old races will carry a purse of 00. At a special meeting of the IHHA, president James told horsemen that DeMeo was more than responsive to the requests of the .horsemens association and s .willing to -share the associations increased revenue from pari-mutuel play, at a fair percentage. James furthermore told horsemen that the IHHA had arranged with management of Chicago Downs, to discuss the purse structure after the first week of racing at Sports-4 mans Park- next month and thereafter every two weeks representatives of the horsemen would sit down with officers of * the association to see if mutuel play warrants increases in purses or not. Horsemen could rest assured, James said, that they would receive proper compensation -for their racing efforts at the forthcoming Sportsmans Park meeting the same as has been the case here at Maywood, Park. Although only six horses came out for . the Chicago Press , Photographers Pace, a - 21 class stake, the event aroused considerable interest" among fans last Thursday night. As it was the race developed into a two-horse contest between Fairbanks and King Gaines* Both were winners of their last start and the Kings Counsel pacer had a record only one-fifth of a second faster than, that of the Brookdale colt. Fairbanks, with Clarence Curtis in the sulky, started from the 2To. 4 post and , grabbed the lead immediately after the * start; to negotiate the. first quarter in : 30 Vs, the half in 1:02% and the three-quarters , in 1:34%. King Gaines always was in second position, one length back of Fairbanks. In the middle of the homestretch it looked for a moment as if Jake Mahoney * Would get up with King Gaines, but Fairbanks held stubbornly on and won by one length in 2:06% to equal his own record. The - William Laue-owned colt lias now won five out his seven races / this year and is an aspirant for the free-for-all class before long. His latest effort proved again that the four-year-old has a game heart and is smoothly gaited even under great pressure. . .Fastest time on Thursday night was recorded by Lucy F., a five-year-old pacer owned by Mrs. A. D. Knapp, Jackson, Mich., and trained by Bob Parkinson. The mare came from behind to score in 2: 05%, which is a new j ~ half-mile track record for her. As a ; three-year-old Lucy F. got a mark, of Z:03% over a regulation oval. L. N.. Meggitt, who won with nearly all Of his aged campaigners here, could not " make it yet with Alliewyn Volo, a five-year-old pacing gelding. Alliewyn Volos daddy, however, the eight-year-old stallion, Moore Volo, also owned by Meggitt, has been to the winners circle this year at Maywood Park. . .Thursday nights school- i ing race for two-year-old trotters was won ] by Grand Star Volo owned by Wm. H. Hecht, Celina, Ohio, with Howard Beis- singer at the reins. The black colt turned ] the tables on Joans Victor inasmuch as the 1 Victory Song offspring made a break in - the homestretch, but still finished second i . . .When the hew purse schedule goes into 1 * effect Monday night, the increase for that i ] ] 1 - i 1 night will amount to ,000. Ted Leonard had little difficulty filling his races, because 22 hofsesj had to be put on the "also eligible" list for Monday night. . .IHHA Prexy Jamesbed-ridden for several weeks, took off for .a ijshing trip up Canada way with all .the Jameses. His recent negotiations with management and the USTA were highly successful and the vacation comes at an apropos time.
