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Sees Swaps as Favorite For Californian Saturday To Meet Determine, Other Older Opponents in 00,000 Feature HOLLYWOOD PARK, Inglewood, Calif., June 7.— R. C. Ellsworths Swaps is expected to be the favorite for Saturdays Californian in spite of the fact that he is a three-year-old tackling older horses, but none of the owners or trainers of other leading candidates for the stakes are ready to concede him victory in the 00,000 run of a mile and one-sixteenth. Beating horses his own age is one thing, they point out, but it is a tall order to ask a sophomore to handle veterans of the handicap wars this early in the year. Swaps made the best of the three-year-olds here look a sorry lot when he won the recent mile Will Rogers Stakes by a dozen lengths, but the fact remains that all five of those who opposed him were stakes winners. It was as a result of that smashing performance that Ellsworth and his trainer, Misha Tenney, decided that Swaps is entitled to an opportunity to establish his standing against the best of the older horses here. Most interest in the Californian will center on the meeting between Swaps and last years Kentucky Derby winner, Andy Crevolins Determine. The latter took a shot at older horses in last seasons inaugural running of the Californian and was good enough to force his stablemate, Imbros, to run a mile and one-sixteenth in 1:41 to beat him a length. The time then represented the worlds record. Swaps and Determine will be meeting at as nearly equal weights as has been devised. With Swaps, at 115 pounds and Determine at 126 each will be shouldering tops on the scale. Determine is the only prospective Californian starter due to shoulder 126, so the Ellsworth colt will be conceding weight to the rest of the field. How many will line up against the two Derby champions is not yet certain, but there may be eight or nine. One of the latest to join the field is Joe W. Browns Gigantic, now recovered from a minor injury he sustained when he rapped himself several weeks ago. Gigantic beat nearly every- good older horse in the West last winter when he captured the San Antonio Handicap. Some of them were Determine, Imbros, Poona n., and Correspondent. King Ranchs Rejected is sure to accept the issue this week end and there is a chance that Abe Hirschberg will send forth his sensationally fast Berseem. Llangollen Farm is to be represented by Mister Gus and Porterhouse and Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Kerr are going to start Traver- j tine. Some other prospects are Mr. and Mrs. John Eyrauds Karim, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Clarks Spring Count, Keil McCarthys Novarullah and Mr. and Mrs. Harry James James Session.
