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Nine Sophomores In Flying Farmers Ak-Sar-Ben Honors Group of Air-Minded Soil Developers; Three Winners of Meet Vie By J. R. BATTY Staff Correspondent AK-SAR-BEN, Omaha, Nebr., June 14. The Plying Farmers Purse, honoring a group of aeronautical-minded developers of the soil in Nebraska, with more than a 100 members expected to be on hand as guests of Ak-Sar-Ben, heads the festivities planned for Tuesday here. The Plying Farmers is styled exclusively for three-year-olds and nine sophomores are named overnight to compete at six furlongs for a purse of ,260. Supporting the feature and posted as the third race, is an allowance dash of five furlongs in which a limit band of 12 juvenile colts and geldings are slated to meet. Three winners at the current meeting, Mis Mondes, Sandair and Rulers Faith, are among the line-up in the Flying Farmers and opposing this trio will be Goodall, Lehigh, Saxets Man, Flying Bry, Happy Tulip and Silvery. Rulers Faith, owned by P. E. Shelby, was a popular victress in her only outing of the meeting when she was easily best by seven lengths over Miss Lista in a five and a half furlongs test. Although the company she defeated was of lesser caliber than she faces Tuesday, Rulers Faith earlier in the season at Oaklawn Park and New Orleans Fair Grounds, competed with about the same type with fair success. Goodall Misses by Head Goodall, Lehigh and Mis Mondes competed together and finished in the order named behind Madeos Dream here a week ago. Goodall missed the top portion of the purse by a h.ead margin while Lehigh, after encountering considerable trouble all the way, practically, was only a nose farther away. Mis Mondes, after pressing the pace until the stretch, faltered in the drive and was some three lengths in the wake of Lehigh. Mis Mondes fell in her previous outing and the time before was a winner over a field which included Goodall, who was fourth. Sandair, owned and trained by Fred Wyse, won her first two starts over the local strip and, endeavoring to make it three in a row, next time out, finished a distant fifth to Miss Questuary. Composing the field in the two-year-old race are Ever Red, Tiny Plow, Royal Boy, Ready Already, Styland, Porters Rule, Yes R, Brown. Peanut, Skimmed- Milk, Sports Cousin, Brief Dream and Akrun. The success of this meeting is evident when for the fourth straight Saturday an increase, in handle was realized over the previous week-end card. A crowd of 12,994 saw the fastest time for six furlongs hung out after the featured race, since Susi Q set the track standard of 1:09 in 1938. Lefty James, in winning the sixth race, was clocked in 1:10 on Saturday. Owned by J. K. Houssels, Lefty James registered a popular triumph with the fans by downing Gunner Lad by two and a half lengths. Hiram Jr. was third. another head away while Roman Secret was fourth among the half dozen who competed in this ,600 sprint handicap. The winner, a five-year-old gelded son of Bull Reigh Paulas Lulu, was guided to the front by jockey Victor Bovine approaching the quarter mile post after suffering interference during the early stages. Once in command, Lefty James gradually drew away from his rivals. He paid .20 after scoring his third victory from 10 starts, two of them locally, this year."
