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Limit Sprint Field Goes In River Downs Offering Alabama Belle, Deep Situation, Espy, My Accident Travel to Post By It. E. HURLEY Staff Correspondent RIVER DOWNS, California, Ohio, June 16. — Three fine allowance sprints are offered at River Downs on Bunker Hill day and each race should be as hot a contest as the day the redcoats stormed up Bunker Hill in 1775 and the Minute Men withheld their fire until they saw "the whites of their eyes." Best of the trio of races is the Old Fitzgerald Purse, famous in another field, which sees 14 sprinters meeting for the major share of the ,800 purse. K. and O. Stables Alabama Belle, who has been running into the champion sprinter, Cavalier Trim, with alarming regularity, has finally slipped into a spot that avoids her nemesis, but has no soft touch in the sprint. — D. B. Hudsons Deep Situation, R. J. Ha-mons My Accident Creel Browns Sonny Brown, E. Sorbers Ferol S. and Ira Dry-mons Espy are enough to give any minute man a fright and will be offset by Sob Story, Morocco Prince, Cats Whiskers, Dusky Hill, Open Way, Dear Lillian, Debbeb and Mary Boniface. The luck of the draw may play an important part in the race for Espy is on the also-eligible list and will need a scratch to draw into the race. The Drymon filly was unplaced in her only local go but was obviously in need of that race. Deep Situation and My Accident are a pair of Downs winners who need on instructions to find the winners circle. Both are speedsters which may work for the advancement of Alabama Belle, for she can wait patiently while these two swift ones run themselves dizzy. In the sixth race of the afternoon, Wednesday racegoers will see Ed Buntings Candidate trying for his fifth win of the season against nine shifty sprinters. The seventh is for three-year-olds, exclusively, and has brought out a dozen classy sophomores, including Jack Tar, Melmars IT. N. and Fairiam. All nine races are worthy contests and those who attend the program will be reminded of the sparks that flew in the revolutionary battle on the same day over 176 years ago immediately after the shot that was heard round the world. j
