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Lincoln Handicap Weeks Big Event j0,000 Feature At Crete Saturday Meeting, However, Will Not End Until Three Days Later; Crash Diye Has Good Record LINCOLN FIELDS, Crete, HI., June 12. Lincoln Fields on Monday enters the final full week of its 1954 homecoming meeting with next Saturdays 0,000 Lincoln Handicap in the offing, but the end of this interesting revival of the Will County track does not come until three days later, on Wednesday, June 23, when the full 30 days of the spring session will culminate in the inaugural running of the one mile Au Re-voir Handicap. The mile and one-sixteenth Lincoln Handicap, as a traditional feature of Lincoln Fields programs since 1926, is the piece de resistance of the current meeting. Its new value, 0,000, is double any previous endowment of this important handicap, whose beadroll of winners includes the names of Supremus, Chance Play, Toro, Blackwood, Lady Broadcast, Sun Beau, Esseff, Sweeping Light, Mucho Gusto twice, Dellor, Shot Put, Equifox twice, Take Wing twice, Historian, Mighty Story, and others. The list of eligibles for the upcoming renewal includes the two latest winners, Seaward 1952 and the Old Rogue, Ruhe 1953, both owned by Hasty House Farm of Allie and Billie Reuben. The latter have four other nominees, including the veteran Inseparable, the Argentine stallion, Mister Black, and the three-year-olds, Hasty Road and Sea O Erin. Yanderbilt Names Pair Alfred G. Vanderbilt holds a very strong hand for the Lincoln Handicap if he decides to play it. Besides the four-year-old gelding. Find, principal understudy to his much more illustrious stablemate, Native Dancer, the master of Sagamore has nominated another four-year-old, Crash Dive. This fellow has been keeping his light under a bushel until recently, but has been making it shine with" considerable brilliance since lifting the cover. Crash Dive is a dark bay colt by Devil TDiver, out of the Campfire mare, Canfli, a high class race mare in the Three D. Stock Farm entourage years ago. Crash Dive made only two starts as a two-year-old in 1952, finishing second and third, respectively. He did not appear again until the current meeting at Belmont Park. There he won his first start at the direct expense of Prince Hill on May 7. Next, he finished second to Big Print on May 19. Then, on June 5, he romped home a winner by six lengths. These were all races at six furlongs. Last Friday at Belmont the Vanderbilt colt came out for the one mile Requital Purse, which he won by six lengths with speed to spare. He has thus started six times, won three, placed second twice, third once. He was favorite in all his races, twice, including last Friday, at odds on. Trainer Howard Wells had two of Wal-mac FarmsLincoln Handicap eligibles on the track this morning, the three-year-old Hasseyampa breezing seven-eighths in 1:28, the older Adams Off Ox stepping three-quarters in 1:15. Walmac Farms third nominee for next Saturdays Stake, Vagabond King, was in the Lincoln Prep today. Harry N. Eads Sir Mango, winner of the Fleming and a division of the Crete handicaps at this meeting, and a candidate for the Lincoln, breezed a mile and one-eighth in 1:55. Over at Washington Park, Seaward breezed five furlongs in 1 :06. Nominations follow: Arab Actress Loridale Adams Off Ox Mr. Paradise Amphiblem Montenegrin Abbe Sting Money Broker Bugledrums Mister Black Betsy T. Olympic Blue Dare Old Forge Crash Dive Precious Stone Find Ruhe Force of Arms Royal Bay Gem Gushing Oil Sunny Dale Guy Seaward " Hasseyampa Sea O Erin Hasty Road . Smoke Screen Heutel Sir Mango Happy Go Lucky Sreemin Jack Inseparable Spinning Top King Vagabond King Larry Ellis Wise Margin j
