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. ! Quintet Named to Seek Cornhusker Handicap Butch K. Competes With Undone, Line Driver, Hairbow at Omaha By ART KENNEDY Staff Correspondent - AK-SAR-BEN, Omaha, Nebr., June 23. — The Cornhusker Handicap will be featured at Ak-Sar-Ben tomorrow, fittingly enough on northeastern Nebraska day. Of the half-dozen who have been entered in five interests, three are eligible for the longer and richer, George Brandeis Memorial Handicap this coming Saturday. Weights for the Brandeis were released today and according to its conditions, no penalties will accrue to the victor in the six-furlong Cornhusker. The highweight tomorrow with two pounds less than he has been assigned in the forthcoming mile and one-sixteenth week-end feature is the Shultz Brothers hard-hitting Butch K., 121 pounds. Although he comes up to this race off two consecutive winning scores, both victories were achieved over the mile and 70 yards route. In the Cornhusker he is pitted against five of the shiftiest sprinters on the grounds four of them scorers at the meeting in near track-record time. If Butch K. needs any sharpening "for the Brandeis, Guy Shultz, ,his trainer, has found the spot for it meanwhile having better than an even shot at the winners share of the Cornhuskers ,000 purse. The Careyland Ranch entry of Line Driver and Hairbow are both winners here within the past week. The latter could be pointing for the Brandeis, having drawn the same impost, 110 pounds that she will last Wednesday, was cleverly scored over Nymphs Pride and she hung up six furlongs in 1:10% while about it. Line Driver on Saturday took the measure of Playboro and Top View, skipping five panels in :58%. He hasnt been nominated for Saturdays longer race. J. W. "Wally" Coopers startling speedster, Undone, will get in tomorrow with 114 pounds, eight less than he hefted Saturday when he carried the target back of Gunner Lad and others, the same poundage he bore in his prior start when he sped six furlongs in 1:10% to a six length triumph. Behind him in that race, fastest of the meeting, although since equaled by Gunner Lad, were those he will meet tomorrow with the exception of Line Driver and Butch K. My Time has one victory over Undone to recommend him, although it was at five furlongs, carrying two pounds less and before "Wally" Cooper found his horses running shoes. Fine Fiddle, the M. H. Van Berg filly, has shown speed here but has yet to duplicate her Chicago form.
