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CLIFFO L Tuonine, accounted for the Harvey Purse at the Lincoln Fields course. Winners at Meeting Vie In Fairmount Headliner Crackice, Mais Boy, Spizerinktom Named for Richmond Heights By C. A. LINDEMAN , Staff Correspondent FAIRMOUNT PARK, Collinsville, 111., June 3. With the threat of rain still in the air and an off racing strip almost a certainty there were only nine named for the Richmond Heights Purse, which, headlines the Friday night card of nine races. This event will be decided over the six furlongs distance and brings together a competitive field of sprinters. The main competition appears to lie between Crack-ice, Mais Boy and Spizerinktom, all winners at this meeting. Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Pruetts five-year-old Crackice rates a splendid chance to rule favorite off his best races here this season. The son of Cold Check and Jolly Play has started four times thus far and was returned the winner last time out at six furlongs by a head over Grey Desert and Hand Salute, in a race that was run in 2:12 over a fast track. In all of his previous races at this meeting he was"hever out of the money. Although his best races are over the fast racing strips he can also turn in a good effort over an "off" track aa iiis apiuig icluiu oiiuws. Mais Boy, a member of the Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Holman stable, also rates a high spot in the Richmond Heights. His last two outings here were in allowance races and he was unable to finish better than second over the short distances of five and a half furlongs. His best race this meeting was a spring race of five and one-half furlongs in 1:06 over a slow track when he won a ,000 claiming event. Mais Boy was only beaten a length in a race that equaled the track record won by Nansv Pride in 1:05 for the five and one-half furlongs. The Holman sprinter also has some good races over the slower tracks. Spizerinktom, owned by John Steele, proved a surprise winner early in the meeting when he won a five and one-half furlongs dash over a slow track by a short neck to defeat Last Raid and Corporal Cal. Since that winning effort the eight-year-old sprinter has been pitted against much better horses and has not shown too much. Now that he is placed back with his own class sprinters he should show a marked improvement. Of the others named Waco Duke and Pat Brooks, recent winners, rate good chances at the ,600 purse offered in the Richmond Heights. Mrs. T. M. Pruetts six-year-old mare, R. TJ. There, showed a marked liking for the sloppy going when she was able to out-game Kissable in a hard stretch duel to take the honors in the Bel Nor Purse before the lightest crowd of the meeting of only 3,800 who braved the storm to witness the running of the eight-race card. R. U. There, ridden by apprentice Carl Daigre-pont, was outrun in the first half of the five and one-half furlongs race, but under hard urging got up to challenge for the lead entering last furlong and just did get the nod in the final few strides. . - The crowd was kept down to an all-time low by the hard rains that started to fall early in the evening and attained real storm proportions as the night advanced. At times it was very difficult to see the horses. Only one spill was seen during the whole card when jockey C. Hughes fell from his" mount, Johns Mistake, right after crossing the finish line. He suffered, no injury.
