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For Free Draws Off to Three-Length Accounting in Pimlicos Towson Purse Qualifies for Preakness by Easy Triumph; Roaring Bull Keeps Winning Streak Going By PALMER HEAGERTY Staff Correspondent PIMLICO, Baltimore, Md., May 11. Howard A. Jones For Free this afternoon joined the select group of three-year-olds considered starters in the seventy-ninth running of the famed Preakness when he downed a mediocre field in the featured Towson Purse at Pimlico. The Four Freedoms colt was handled by Sherman Armstrong and covered the mile and .one-sixteenth in 1:47 to reward his backers in the crowd of 9,569 with a .20 mutuel. Marc Goldnamers Royal Fan was second, three lengths behind the winner and five lengths clear of Vic Posners Swift Steve. For Free, through his bang-up second to Ring King in Laurels Chesapeake Stakes, was shipped to Kentucky for the Derby but failed to get postward in that fixture due to a dull effort in the preceding Blue Grass. In a subsequent outing he was sec-I ond behind the good filly, Fancy Diver. Continued on Page Forty-Five For Free Takes Pimlicos t Towson Purse With Ease 1 Qualifies for Preakness With J Easy Win; Roaring Bull Tallies Continued from Page One His race today, while far from sensational, ; was satisfactory over a track which has -been on the dull side for the entire meet- 1 ing. The colt came out of the engagement 1 in excellent condition, which prompted trainer S. S. Birosak to state his intentions of saddling a starter in the Preakness. Royal Fan was responsible for the pace in the Towson, enjoying a clear advantage through the opening half-mile while For Free followed the pace without being hurried. For Free commenced his bid soon after leaving the backstretch and drew clear to attain a three-length advantage. Brookmeade Stables Roaring Bull made it three in a row when he took the seventh race by a length and a half over Carl M. Grahams Wabash -Moon. There was a gap of five lengths back to Mrs. C. P. Dencklas Songai, who finished third. Under Glen Lasswell, Roaring Bull paid .40 while registering his third successive victory. His time for the mile and a sixteenth was 1:47, or one-fifth of a second faster than that credited to For Free. . Songai was in front for more than six furlongs in the Pikesville, at which point Roaring Bull moved from the outside to wrest command. Lasswell allowed his mount to drift out entering the stretch, which enabled Wabash Moon to move I ; menacingly and reach almost even terms with the Brookmeade gelding. Roaring 1 Bull, however, was too much horse for i Wabash Moon and drew clear with need of only mild encouragement.
