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• Pomace, Sir Mango To Compete Again Winners of Two Divisions Of Inaugural Among 26 in Saturdays Lincoln Stake LINCOLN FIELDS, Crete, 111., May 24.— Next Saturdays 5,000 La Salle Handicap, first stakes feature on the forthcoming long holiday week end at Lincoln Fields, which extends through Monday, Memorial Day, is expected to bring together Hasty House Farms Pomace and Harry N. Eads Sir Mango, winners of their respective divisions of the Crete Handicap on opening day last Thursday. Like the Crete, the La Salle is at six furlongs. Racing Secretary L. C. Bogenschutz will assign weights for the 26 La Salle nominees Tuesday. They include 14 of the 18 horses who contested the two divisions of the Crete and 12 not named for the homecoming meetings Inaugural event. Altogether, the La Salle shapes up as a fitting beginning for the holiday week end, which comes to a climax Monday with the twenty-sixth running of the 5,000 Pea-body Stakes, traditional Memorial Day fixture at Lincoln Fields and, since 1946, an important spring event for three-year-olds, for which it is now exclusively fashioned. Weighted Pound Apart The La Salle hardly needs more than the presence of the two top sprinters, Pomace and Sir Mango, to make it an interesting attraction for a week-end program. On the occasion of their last meeting on March 27 at Gulfstream .Park in Florida, the five-year-old Pilate gelding, Pomace, beat his four-year-old rival, Sir Mango, by two lengths in a three-quarter-mile overnight handicap in which Pomace carried 118 pounds and the Ends brown colt, 119. For last Thursdays Crete, Bogenschutz weighted Pomace with 120, Sir Mango, 119. Other Crete contestants nominated for the La Salle include Mrs. Herbert Herffs Smackover, second to Pomace last Thursday; W. J. Schmidts Look Out Jeep, fourth; and the following who were unplaced in the first division: J. S. Bradleys Sun David, P. J. McMullens Dry Run, Sam E. Wilson Jr.s Bugledrums. Also in the La Salle are seven of Sir Mangos recent victims in the second division of the Crete: Clifford Lusskys Tuosix, who was second; James H. Dunns Oh Leo, third; Fairway Farms Good Call, Hasty House Farms Torch of War, F. W. Jansons Paytu, Mrs. Herffs Blue Award, and Wal-mac Farms good filly, Gala Fete. The twelve additional nominees for the La Salle are: M. Blocks Andy B. W., Victor Corrigans Osage Chief, Mrs. H. J. Damms Arab Actress. C and G Stables Money Broker, Hasty House Farms Ruhe, Mrs. Herffs Mimi Mine, J. H. Nail and M. B. Armers Main Bout, Reverie Knoll Farms Mon-Pharo, Smoke Screen and Le Monde, Walmac Farms Vagabond King, S. E. Wilsons Gushing Oil.
