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Lincoln Has Successful Homecoming Average43,691 At 30-Day Meeting Sir Mango Star of Session With Three Stake Victories; Johnny Adams .Tops Riders Lincoln Fields returned to its own remodeled, modernized plant at Crete, 111., 41 miles south of Chicago, this spring and the 3Q-day meeting which concluded last Wednesday was the most successful in the 30-year history of the course, according to managements own admission. This was the first session at the Crete course since 1942. Total pari-mutuel handle for the session was 9,310,741, a daily average of 43,-691. The attendance for the 30 afternoons was 278,576, a daily mean of 9,286. Last year, when the term of a like number of days was held at Hawthorne, the daily average betting reached 80,607 and the crowds totaled 13,444 on a daily mean basis. " But these figures belie one important factorLincoln Fields didnt have a landlord this season. Harry Eads big, four-year-old,. Sir Mango, emerged as the particular star of the Lincoln proceedings, scoring in three handicaps. Sir Mango first took the second division of the Crete on May 20, then the Edward J. Fleming Memorial, June 5, and wound up his grand slam with a track-mark-breaking performance in the 0,000 Lincoln Handicap last Saturday. With jockey Dave Erb sitting still, Sir Mango sliced a fifth of a second off the mile and one-sixteenth track standard with a sparkling 1:43 flat under 123 pounds. Earns 9,362 By sweeping his three appearances under silks, Sir Mango earned 9,362 to easily top the thoroughbreds in money winnings. Sir Mangos stakes triple also enabled Eads to beat out Hasty House Farm for leading monetary honors among the owners. Bads aggregate was exactly what Sir Mango earned, while Hasty House .finished with 3,727 on four victories, three seconds and a pair of show awards. Another track mark went by the boards when. E. P. Mete Roman Heart clipped two-fifths of a second off the five-furlong record when she ran the distance in :58 to win the fourth race on closing day. Roman Heart won by three lengths under Steve Brooks. The old mark was set by American Byrd in 1938 and equalled by Lea Lane early in the meeting. Lea Lane, Charlton Clays fleet juvenile daughter of Nasrullah Lea Lark, by Bull Lea, tied, the mark when she won the major award of 1,900 in the Miss America Stakes, June 12. Other stake winners were Hasty Houses Pomace, Top Traffic, speedy two-year-old: Mister Carter, Sea O Erin, also owned by Hasty House, and Super Devil, owned by W. Gruber of New Orleans, who races under the nom de course of the Rebel Stable. Pomace not only took the first division of the Crete Inaugural, but also the La Salle Handicap on May 29 to join Sir Mango in the mpre-than-one-stakes-victory class. Adams Has 22 Winners Two veterans, Johnny Adams and SteVe Brooks, and Johnny Heckmann battled for leading jockey laurels, with the former 22 winners to 19 each for the fcjair. Adams, though riding in fewer Railing, Khan Brooks and Heckman, had the average, .26. illiam Hal Bishop, a perennial leader mi the Chicago circuit, easily bested the trainers with 13 victories. His closest competition came from the triumpvirate of W. J. Schmidt, Howard Wells and Earl Wyatt with seven apiece. Thats the .capsule comment on the Lincoln Fields meeting of 1954, which cannot be dismissed without a brief on the inclement weather for several days around the Memorial Day holiday, and on the big holiday a baby tornado struck the plant at feature race time. Earlier in the day, transportation difficulties had been encountered, but the management cannot be faulted for either the weather or the transportation entanglement. General manager Peter J. ODonnell promises more improvements next season. The track also will have a new president, William J. McCormack having resigned to devote full time to his eastern business. Complete Lincoln Fields statistics: May 20 to June 2330 Days Gross distribution 69,180 Net distribution ............ .43,000 Doily average net distribution 8,100 Attendance .278,576 Daily average attendance 9,286 Mutuel handle 9,310,741 , Deify average mutuel handle 43,691 Leading Money-Winning Owners Owner. 1st. 2nd. 3rd. Won. Eads, H.N. 3 0 0 9,362 Hasty House Farm 4 3 2 53,72-7 W. H. Bishop Stable.Inc. 13 9 16 32,010 Owner. 1st 2nd. 3rd. Won. Wilson, S. E., Jr. 2 6 3 23,115 Fruehauf , H. C. 5 4 1 16,350 Schmidt, Mrs. W. J. 7 6 0 15,635 Denemark, E. 6 5 4 14,835 Clay, C. 2 0 0 13,720 Walmac Farm 3 3 2 13,360 Damm, Mrs. H. J. 1 2 0 13,240 Leading Money-Winning Horses Horse. 1st. 2nd. 3rd. Won. Sir Mango 3 0 0 9,362 Sea O Erin 10,0 18,950 Pomace 2 0 0 18,837 Lea Lane 2- 0 0 13,720 Arab Actress 1 1 1 13,100 Mister Carter 1 0 0 12,350 Top Traffic .-1 0 0 12,200 Ruhe 0 2 1 , 8,700 Super Devil 1 1 0 8,050 Numerical 3 0 0 6,010 Leading Winning Jockeys Jockey Mts. 1st 2nd. 3rd. Unp. PC. Adams, J. 85 22 9 9 45 .26 Brooks, S. 124 19 22 11 72 .15 Heckmann, J. 146 19 18 17 92 .13 Church, K. 95 17 9 12 57 .18 Baldwin, R. 116 16 16 12 72 .14 Jessop, J. D. 128 15 15 16 82 .12 Erb, D. 119 14 16 11 78 .12 ONeil, T. 88 14 12 16 46 .18 Popara, A. 90 13 9 14 54 .14 Cook, W. M. 100 12 15 8 65 .12 Leading Winning Trainers Trainer. Wins. Trainer. Wins. Bishop, W. H. 13 Nickl, N. 6 Schmidt, W. J. 7 Oglesby, J. L. 6 -Wells, Howard 7 Womeldorff , D. 6 Wyatt, E. 7 Carter, Jack 5 Lamoureux, A. 6 Trotsek, H. 5 j The percentage of winning favorites was below normal, as shown in the subjoined tabulation: Number of races 252 Winning favorites 71 Winning second choices 51 Winning outsiders 130 Winners at odds-on 7 Defeated at odds-on 10 Percentage of winning favorites .28 Dead-heats to win None Following is the list of stakes that were decided: Crete Inaugural Handicap 1st Div., May 20, Pomace r.. $ 7,712 Crete Inaugural Handicap 2nd Div., May 20, Sir Mango 7,912 Joliet Stakes 1st Div., May 22, Top Traffic 12,200 Joliet Stakes 2nd Div., May 22, Mister Carter 12,350 La Salle Handicap May 29, Pomace 11,125 Peabody Memorial, May 31, Sea O Erin .... 18,950 Edward J. Fleming Memorial Handicap, June 5, Sir Mango . . 11,100 Miss America Stakes, June 12, Lea Lane ....... 11,900 Lincoln Handicap, June 19, Sir Mango , 40,350 Au Revoir Handicap, June 23, Super Devil 7,450
