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| Todays Fonner Program Honors Omahas Racing Hay Whirley, Hydro Scott Match Strides in Alliance Purse Sprint By DEAN WILLIAMS Staff Correspondent . FONNER PARK, Grand Island, Nebr., I May 4. — Thursdays program will honor Omaha and the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben. Each year a large group of the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben tour to this city to boost the May 19 opening of the Ak-Sar-Ben mile oval. The Thursday card is the best over-all program of eight races offered at this track I during this meeting. The feature races on , tap are the Alliance Purse at five and one-half furlongs and the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben Purse at one mile. Both have drawn .well-matched fields of eight, j The Alliance Piirse will be run as the sixth race on the afternoons program. .O. D. Forneys Hay Whirley and Frank I Turners Hydro Scott will head the sprint headliner and will be asked to meet Mac Galus, Dina-Mico, Cavalier Trim, Kin Bar, ! Gray Polly and Dust Tan. Hay Whirley has gone to the post once at this meeting, finishing third to Gp-Ye-Far and Madeos Dream in the Inaugural Handicap. Hydro Scott has not started this year, but is a Cornhusker circuit favorite and won five races during the racing season. W. R. Warrens Smokey Point will probably receive the bulk of the public support in the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben. The six-year-old son of Harvesting has been racing in the role of "always the-bridesmaid and never the bride" in three of his four starts this year. He finished second to Yclept in the mile and a sixteenth handicap on the I third day of the meeting, then returned six days later to be beaten a head by Longone going six and one-half furlongs. | Bill J. closed strongly in his first effort of the year to be beaten only a half length ; by Thoughtless in a six-furlong sprint. The j Turner gelding should like the added dis- tance and should be the best of the others which include: Johnny Acres, Jane Forst, |T-Town Express, Sliparound, Teazle and [Open Scabbard. t k in r i * 1 1 c
