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I | I I , I : | • 1 ; 1 . t i t ! i i ! ! c i j i : t ! t j |t ; j I ; t * B i 1 : i j f i 1 i I i r a i - ! . I r I r I I i i ;. i d f e I ? I of ,f j ! j d : _ g : .s - _ e I j j Pair of Apprentices In Fairmount Limelight Meaux Rides Three Winners and James, Two; Akboy in Big Upset By J. J. IIAHN . Staff Correspondent FAIRMOUNT PARK, Collinsville. 111.. May 10. — A pair of apprentices stole riding ; I honors here Monday night but some of the ; limelight was taken from the youngsters I by longshots which practically dominated 1 the eight-race program. Only one of the favorites. J. F. Broz Dee Mee Dee, held at I odds-on. entered the winners circle and j . it was only after a game effort that this three-year-old son of Degage got up to J defeat Razor Blade after the latter took a 1 good lead midway of the stretch, displacing ? the odds-on favorite when the Broz color -i bearer, after showing the way during the e early running, dropped back midway of the e J stretch. Apprentice C. H. James dominated the p Daily Double events, winning on Sun-Bit. • a field horse in the first race and which 1 paid 3.40. James came back in the next • race and drove home Moonblend which re-, turned 9.00 and those who backed the e combination in the Daily Double received i a return of 06.40. Edgar Wallace, who took advantage of J a big opening when Alms Deck carried ! Sweet Sis wide in the stretch, got through next to the rail on Akboy in the third and a that two-year-old maiden won drawing S away and those few who supported this S son of Akbar were paid off at 05.40. . Largest mutuel of the short meeting, Billy Gummow won his third race of the e meeting on the odds-on Dee Mee Dee but I Clarence Meaux got into action in the fifth h race and made every post a winning one e on De Ville which paid 0.20. The public n choice, Easy Miss, finished last in this eight-horse race. Meaux also handled the e winners of the seventh and eighth races. s. Fence Line. 7.20 and Gold Necklace, " .40. The Wednesday feature is the six furlongs " Alton Purse, serving as the sixth race e and in which seven are entered, including 8 the winner-at-the-meeting. Line Driver. r. Matched against this gelded son of Bar ,r Hunter, who won here last Saturday night Lt over a distance of ground and by five p lengths, are Take All, Lewis A. D.. Jean n Bird. Abacus, Pliant and Halbel. The latter in addition to Line Driver, are the only y ones to race here. Halbel finished second d to Lullaby Time on opening night. Rains early Tuesday morning left the * i course in a sloppy condition and indica- tions are for an, "off" track for the mid-e [_ | week racing program of eight races.
