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Merry Sizzle Goes Today In Handicap at Lincoln To Shoulder 122 Pounds as He Faces Arapahoe, Vilas, Positive By DEAN WILLIAMS Staff Correspondent LINCOLN, Nebr., Aug. 21. Saturdays featured one mile and 70 yards handicap shapes up as an excellent contest. Merry Sizzle will again appear under silks and will carry top weight of 122 pounds. Arapahoe is second high weight with 118 pounds. He is followed in the weights by Vilas, 117; Positive, 115; Irish Villon, 113; Sergeant Ben, 112, arid Charming Bart 110. On previous occasions the fields have met and have never been too far apart at the wire. Dutros entry of Arapahoe seems to have a decided dislike for the local oval and turned in his worst performance in this area last time out. The large brown horse drew top weight in the Elks Club Handicap off of his winning the final day feature at Columbus. He drops two pounds for Saturdays top offering, but will have to turn in a much better showing than he did over this oval in his first appearance here. Jack Sisson has not started Merry Sizzle since he was beaten for the first time in five starts in the Inaugural Handicap. He had the worst of every thing in this endeavour. He was asked to carry 130 pounds and was shut off leaving the gate. Though he was only beaten three lengths, he probably would have been much closer if it had notbeen for his misfortune. The only question is will he like the extremely fast Lincoln track over which he will be asked to run. Floyd Williams will send in a substitute in the form of his improving four-year-old gelding, Vilas. He usually relies on Easy Dixie for racing in the big ones, but evidently thought the 120 pounds which she had earned for the race was too much for her to carry over that distance. The son of Villon earned his right to "pinch hit" for Easy Dixie in winning the Sowers Club Handicap at six and one-half furlongs. Vilas has never been over six and one-half furlongs, but would appear he could handle the distance he will run Saturday under the steady rating of "deep freeze" Leeling. Positive surely deserves close scrutiny in Saturdays main offering. He has not turned in any really bad efforts, but he has not raced at his best form. The Chaffin color-bearer was only beaten two lengths in the far back in the early running and closed with a rush. His best efforts are given when he stays near the pace. The slightest bit of improvement over his most two recent efforts would make him the one to beat. Irish Villon and Sergeant Ben are two horses who are certain to be going well at the wire with their late bids. Irish Villon has been racing very well and gets in relatively light. Sergeant Ben has always been one to contend with in an event of a mile
