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] . ■ 10 Lincoln Fields Notebook By J. J. MURPHY • Lincoln Meeting Enters Final Week Francis Driscoll, 93, Views Races Creech Launching Riding Prospect HAWTHORNE, Cicero, 111., June 13.— Lincoln Fields goes into the final week of its annual meeting Monday, and when it is , [ ■ . r r all over, general manager Peter ODonnell and the racing secretarys office crew will, no doubt, be satisfied to permit headaches to fall elsewhere. What with adverse track conditions . on many days, "a few of which found horses being almost shut off on the outside fence, and the scarcity of trainers at the entry shi the the i . 5 L an; and i arc are Ju June » old olds * tn the » sai same I 1 - he head - D£ I |_|| _ ; ,f ev s F F. II Gi e C r he e ce ;e is is •- d£ Y. gc » «■ ! l ™ * jj* * ™ ™ * " , I Jl [ 5* i " p a £j of f ■ | _ was is- windows, the lads have had quite a time of it. However, the horsemen did cooperate splendidly when it came time to prepare the program for Saturday, and a good card was arranged. Racing secretary Larry Bo-genschutz had Saturdays Miss America Stakes filled to overflowing by 10 a. m. Friday, and a short time later could have "gone" with adequate fields, but it was the ambition of the powers that be to provide a full list of entries for the week-end pa- trons to shoot at, and as a result, the line- up was not made public until mid-after- noon. If the storm clouds will just gather in some other section of the land for the next six days, everything should be hunky-dory. At least everyone hopes so. It pre- sents quite a problem for the editors of newspapers to give service to their readers when such conditions prevail; so lets all hope for the best for the final days of the session, shall we? . . .The feature race for the last week of the meeting will be the 0,000 added Lincoln Handicap at one and one-sixteenth miles, to be run Satur- day. Weights for the race are. due Tuesday, Ninety-three-year-old Francis Driscoll, of Boston, Mass., who is visiting with his son Frank and daughter Mrs. Charles Blake, of Flossmoor, enjoyed the races Friday. Mr. Driscoll made his first visit to the-races here last season and enjoyed the sport so much he was anxious to re- turn... Jimmy "Schnozzle" Durante was out rooting for his horses to win by "just a nose, dats all." J He was accompanied by Dave Halper, Chicago cafe manager . . .Among those present in the winners circle for Fridays Greater Chicago Hotel Purse Friday were Robert McQuain, pres- ident of the organization and executive director of the Conrad Hilton Hotel, and Fred McCartney, executive director the Sheraton Hotel. Charles Aaron, vice-president of Lincoln Fields, entertained a large group of Chicago hotelmen at luncheon in the clubhouse Friday. The feature race of the day named for the Greater Chicago Hotel Association. . .Dance Nsing, who finished second to Gushing Oil in the Peabody Memorial last year, seems to have slipped plenty. Has not been in the money in 10 starts this year. Was injured in his stall following the running of the Peabody. . .Al , Popara has been engaged to ride Sam E. Wilson, Jr.s Royal Mustang in the Lincoln Handicap, closing day feature. . .Mrs. Gladys Dority, who trains her own horses, has shipped Beau Yount, Mist o Dawn and Vinita Toney to Fairmount Park. . .Owner Allie Reuben of Hasty House Farm, returned from a trip to New York. Went there to attend the sales but thought the prices a trifle stiff .. .William Hal Bishop did it with Third Division and Snapheel, and now with Repartee. Won four races in a row with each, we mean, after having claimed them. Bennett Creech, who has developed a number of successful jockeys, has another bright prospect under his wing in Al Garth Whiting, a 20 -year-old from Rupert, Idaho. The youngster, who has had some experience on the small tracks in his native state but has never ridden on a major course, was recommended by Burley Parke. Among the riders brought along by Creech in the past were Joe Inzelone, V. Peterson, C. Parvin, Charlie Stevenson, Monte Parke, H. Featherston, Leslie Wickel, Freddy Scheih and Charlie Parke. . .The haltermen have been so active that some trainers with public stables are loathe to enter their charges lest they lose them and bring down the wrath of their patrons. . .Joe Grossman, a big apple man from Wenatchee, Wash., who formerly raced some horses, is visiting. . . Judd Ault has completed a vacation and returned to action in taking over the en-Continucd on Page Forty-One Lincoln Fields Notebook By J. J. MURPHY Continued from Page Four gagement book of jockey John Heck-mann. Fred Crafton says it was so hot here the other day that he saw a dog chasing a rabbit down the backstretch, and both were walking. . .As of Friday, the names of 38 horses were on the veterinarians barred list, four on the starters list, and three on the stewards list. . .S. J. Hawley, who has some horses here in charge of Dave-Sazer, was an arrival from Detroit. . .Jockey Robert Howell returned from Baltimore only to learn of the death of his father-in-law, C. Wesley High, in that city... Pops Pal, a three-year-old, and Babys Pal, a two-year-old who won here on successive days, are full brother and sister. They were bred by Henry Drew of Cincinnati. ..Horsemen having two-year-olds here seem to be in accord with the decision of racing secretary Frank Kilroe of Arlington Park, to shorten the distance of scheduled juvenile 1 1 events at the Lindheimer plant from five and one-half furlongs to five furlongs. /
