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Lorry Ellis Faces Tough Assignment Takes Up Top Weight of 123 in Puritan at Suffolk While Engaging 11 Rivals By AVERY BROWN Staff Correspondent SUFFOLK DOWNS, East Boston, Mass., June 19. — Larry Ellis, who races in the silks of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Lingle, will uri-doubtedly be the heavily backed choice in tomorrows fifteenth running of the 0,-000 Puritan Handicap at a mile and 70 yards, but the consistent son of Easy Mon — War Cloth will have to be at his best. Topweight of 123 pounds will be assignment of the five-year-old gelding and he will be meeting 11 members of the local handicap division, any one of which is capable of downing the New England "champ. There isnt any doubt as to the best race turned in by Larry Ellis thus far this season. It was his threatening second to Royal Vale in the recent edition of the 0,000 added Massachusetts Handicap. While Larry Ellis failed to defeat Mrs. E. duPont Weirs handicap star, and probably wouldnt have been the. winner if they had raced once more around the oval that day, the effort earned him a rousing round of applause. Optimism is running high among the trainers of the rivals Larry Ellis meets in the Puritan. They base their feelings on the fact that the Lingle star is capable of running with the* countrys best at 113 pounds, but the extra 10 he must carry tomorrow bogs him down. That was true in the Tomasello Memorial Handicap run here on Memorial Day. In that race, Larry Ellis had 123 up and after getting to the front of River Divide Farms Andre at the sixteenth pole, the latter regained the lead and drew out to win by two lengths. Andre is in the Puritan but must pick up 112 pounds, four more than he carried to win the May 30 race. Little Imp Picks Up Two Pounds - C. H. Everitts Little Imp, who finished third, in the Tomasello, a length and a half back of Larry Ellis, picks up two pounds tomorrow, being assigned 115. The Seven Hearts gelding came back off his Tomasello effort to beat Good Shot and Andre in im- i pressive fashion and figures to be a tough foe tomorrow. Of the others, Futuresque seems the one more likely to give the top one trouble. The six-year-old Questionnaire gelding fared very well in the local handicap division last year and it has been reported that jockey George Glassner will be here to ride in the Puritan. It was Glassner who seemed to fit Futuresque so well last year. The current years compaign for Futuresque has been only mediocre. In the previous fourteen runnings of the Puritan, the race was listed as a stakes event, but this season was included with five other Suffolk Downs features as a free overnight handicap. Entries for the mile and 70 yards test closed with 17 nominations and five were declared. Mrs. Florence Dellarias Harpes, winner of the. Lincoln Special at the Rhode Island oval earlier in the season, is in the Puritan with 117 pounds and recently qualified for the race by successfully toting that same poundage against Grandma Josie, Villager and Royal Marvel earlier this week. The son of Fox Cub raced commendably against top flight performers at, Jamaica after the Rhode Island triumph and must be considered a threat tomorrow. Eddie Siravos Royal Marvel holds enough class off his three-year-old season and while he has been slow to reach peak form this year, now appears ready for the best. The Royal Nap colt has come up to tomorrows race in good fashion and the 113-pound assignment should be handled without too much trouble. T. A. Sears Ocean Breeze, 115; Vigilant Stables Sailed Away, 112; Irving Gushens Soldier Son, 112; Red Head Stables Futuresque, 110; Emerald Hill Stables Blue Dare, 109; Mrs. P. Weyermans Villager, 108 and Ralph Lowes Regal at 104 pounds .round out the field for the Puritan. Ocean Breeze, a son of Ocean Wave-Dispel, has shown his partiality for the local racing strip, having won three out of his four starts at Suffolk Downs. His lone dull race was in the Tomasello, when he stopped badly to wind up ninth. He carried 118 in that race and the three pounds less tomorrow make may the difference to move him up as a decided threat.
