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Tuonine Tuonine Whips Whips Her Her Masculine Masculine Foes; Foes; Fussy Fussy Lady Lady Leads Leads Throughout Throughout Sprint Sprint Third Successful Choice at Lincoln Clifford Lusskys Homebred Outruns Koritza, Challcote With Ease on Muddy Track By J. J. MURPHY LINCOLN FIELDS, Crete, 111., June 3. A six-furlong dash for four-year-olds and up named the Harvey was featured here this afternoon and was won by Tuonine, a filly carrying the colors of Clifford Lussky, of Louisville, Tuonine was the favorite and was the third public choice of the day to-get home in the muddy, difficult going. She won by three and one-half lengths from Koritza, extreme outsider in the event, with Challcote, who was racing coupled with McCreight as the Bishop entry, being third. The winners price was .20 and Tuonine was ridden by Earl Knapp. Bull Hierocles, owned by the Oldehove Stable and ridden by Ronnie Baldwin, had an easy time of it in the fourth. The three-year-old gelding permitted Royal Charge to make the pace for a quarter, then went to the front, and was 12 lengths to the good at the end. Deep Margie beat out Royal Charge for second place. Bull Hierocles was a well-backed choice in scoring his first victory since last September. El Meloncons three-year-old filly Cajun Queen defeated a small band of racers of her own age in the fifth. After having been outrun to the stretch, Cajun Queen, making her fourteenth start of the year, came strongly to beat Fancy Reward under hard hustling by Job Dean Jessop. Fancy Reward was the favorite. Smallest Crowd of Meeting Tuonine, seeking her first victory in four starts this season, was out of the starting gate well and went to the front early. Lucky William kept pace with her for a short distance and then began to drop back, with Koritza, racing for the first time in the interests of John Beck, becoming the chief -contender as they neared the stretch turn. Koritza made a mild bid in the stretch, but Knapp had ample left with Tuonine, and the filly drew out to win easily. The smallest crowd of the session, numbering 5,504, attended the sports this afternoon in exceedingly unpleasant weather. Rain had fallen all night and frequent drizzles and a cold wind added to the discomfort of the patrons. The racing strip was a quagmire. The first two races were for maiden three-year-olds, and E Z Eye, owned by Emil Denemark, and Miss J., from Fairway Farm, were the ones to graduate. Each filly had ample previous chances without Continued on Page Twenty-Five Tuonine Whips Her Male Foes; Third Successful LincoInChoice Continued from Page One having connected, but they were rather easy winners today. E Z Eye, with John Heckmann up, scored by five lengths in the opener, while Miss J., ridden by Al Popara, registered by two lengths in the second. Miss J. was the favorite, while E Z Eye paid 3.80. The Daily Double pay-off was 5.20. The distance in each instance was" six furlongs. King Shannon, a two-year-old owned andbred by Texas turfman, Sam E. Wilson, Jr., won the first race of his career in the third. Efowas pitted against eight other non-winning two-year-olds and came down the inside in the stretch to be up in the last 50 yards to win going away, with Bobby Permane hustling him along. The favored Next Option, an Illinois-bred, set the pace, but petered out in the last eighth. King Shannon is by Shannon II. So-helpme, by Heliopolis, and was making his third attempt and his first start at this meeting.
