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Final Week of Sport Begins at Lincoln Oval Easy Dixie, Al Rita, Boswell Queen And Subjugate in Allowance Test , By DEAN WILLIAMS Staff Correspondent LINCOLN, Nebr., Aug. 22. The final week gets under way Monday with the realization that the previously hoped-for ,500,000 mutuel total will become a figure on the record books. Each days totals have -astounded every one. Since Monday the days totals have not fallen below the 50,000 mark. Only two years ago this figure would have been considered a large handle for a Saturday program. Four winners will vie for top honors in a five-furlong allowance test for three-year-olds and upward on Monday. Easy Dixie, Al Rita, Subjugate and Boswell Queen have all won allowance or handicap races at this meeting. Scheduled to meet these winners are Propitious, Pair of Roses, Peggy Frances and French Admiral. Easy Dixie, who carries the colors of Floyd Williams, won the Elks Club Handicap after a disqualification. The mare turned in a front-running performance in that j race, and at the end of the mile and 70 yards distance was beaten a head by Irish Villon. Irish Villon bothered horses in circling the field at the head of the stretch and was disqualified, to be placed fourth. The mare is very versatile and the fact she is being backed up from a mile and 70 yards to the short five furlongs should not bother her. She has. had a week of rest and should be very sharp for this effort. W. H. Barkers speedy mare, Boswell Queen, ran one of the fastest five furlongs of the meeting. She was never headed as she beat Miss Campbell by two lengths to win handily. The mare has failed to beat the best sprinters on the grounds when she meets them, but in the field she is meeting Monday are good sprinters, though they could not be called the best on the grounds. Fridays features saw two old favorites led to the winners enclosure. Dee Wash won the sixth race at one mile and 70 yards. In winning this race the grand mare by Oyster Bay won a race here for her third year in a row. The seventh race was won by Phil Robinsons Miss Campbell, who also has never failed to gain winners brackets in the past three years. Both of these mares "went to the post as one of the races shorter-priced horses.
