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Obstinate Si to Attempt To Atone for Recent Loss Heads Sextet of Sprinters in Fairmounts Missouri Handicap By C. A. LINDEMAN Staff Correspondent FAIRMOUNT PARK, Collinsville, 111., June 19. — The Missouri Handicap, which headlines the Saturday night card of nine events, drew only six sprinters to vie for the ,000 purse at six furlongs. Despite the fact that the field is small, this race figures to be a real battle from start to finish. T. McCarty will send his fleet Obstinate Si back in this event to, try to vindicate himself for his defeat last Saturday against the invader, Elevenpoint. Obstinate Si, a six-year-old son of Ala-king, has three winning races to his credit so far at this meeting and came here with two other victories to his list this year. The McCarty sprinter has the ability to get away from the gate and take a long lead, which he proved in his last race. Although he suffered defeat in that event he was certainly the one they had to beat as he led to the last few yards. His best race here over six furlongs was when he turned back Laughing Fox and Market Tip to win by a , length, going the distance in 1:10 y5, which is thebest time for the six-furlong distance this season over the Fairmount track. Obstinate Si will be packing top weight of 115 pounds for this test, but he proved in recent races that he is capable of carrying weight and still turning on the speed. J. and G. Hejna will again send out their fleet sprinter, Laughing Fox, against Obstinate Si to try for a second victory of the current meeting. Laughing Fox was only a length off Obstinate Si in their last meeting after setting all the pace. The Hejna sprinter won his race prior to that defeat by going the six furlongs in 1:11 with 113 pounds up. With his 112-pound assignment tomorrow night he should give the McCarty sprinter a real battle for the major portion of the ,000 purse. Lucky Lable, owned by Thompson and Goodwin, was returned the winner of his last start here at five and one-half furlongs and should he run back to that ster- ling try he would prove the one to cause most trouble in the final stages. Lucky Lable should benefit by the longer distance of a sixteenth of a mile as he comes from behind. Of the others scheduled to compete in the six-furlong Missouri Handicap, Away Away, from the stable of J. C. Harrison, looms a real threat. All of his races since shipping here from Chicago have been good. Making up the field will be the Silver . Creek Farms Dandy G., winner of a six-furlong dash last out in the fast time of 1:11, and Lancaster Lady, from the stable of W. Tabbytite. Lancaster Lady has a winning race to her credit in the early part of the spring meeting, having won at six furlongs in 1:12, flat. Regardless of the outcome of the Missouri Handicap, Tabbytite is shipping the mare to Centennial 1 Monday.
