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: Stage Old Glory Purse At Fairmount Tonight Dr. Rees and All Tilly Renew Rivalry in Six Furlongs Event By J. J. HAHN Staff Correspondent FAIRMOUNT PARK, Collinsville, 111., June 13.-— Racing is to be resumed here Tuesday night following the first "dark" Monday night of the curent 60-day-night meeting of the Fairmount Park Jockey Club. Flag day will be celebrate here and featuring the eight-race card is the Old Glory Purse, a six-furlong dash for three-year-olds and upward. There are eight probable starters making up this dash. The weather has played havoc most of the session and despite adverse track conditions Klucina has managed to bring together well balanced and matched fields. While the course was deep in mud this morning and threatening weather prevailed the weatherman has predicted clearing skies and in the event his guss is correct the course could be rapid for the Tuesday night racing. Entered in the Old Glory are the three-year-old Tiger Bee, the Illinois-bred owned by H. H. Rendleman and the Valley View Farms Akin, coupled with the older Dun-treath Miss as the Valley View Farm entry. Also scheduled to go postward here are the older Mrs. Blanche Korings clever sprinter Spudder, Mrs. Sam Orrs Dr. Ress, O. H. Pohlmahs Mighty Epic, E-Gee Stables Nile Prince and All Tilly, owned by Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Holman. Dr. Ress at 119 pounds, highweight of the field and All Tilly, will renew their rivalry and the latter will be out to equal the score with the Orr representative. Dr. Rees, a noted mudder, would be favored should the course be anything but fast, while All Tilly would be benefited by a fast going. Dr. Rees won the Eldor,ado Purse in the mud, beating Clynon and other lesser lights but came back later and finished third on a slow track in the Cairo Handicap, dropping the dicision to Bright Imp and Eternal Sam. , However," he came back in the slop on June 4 and won the Lincoln Handicap, coming from behind to win by a head from Bright Imp and with All Tilly, a neck to the rear of Bright Imp. In that race, AH Tilly carried 112 and Dr. Rees 110. In the Tuesday night feature All Tilly gets all the best of the weights, getting in at 109 pounds, a difference of 12 pounds in favor of the Holman representative. Akrun and Duntreath Miss have not won at the meeting, while Spudder, a recent arrival from Ohio, will be making his fhst start of the meeting. The Koring colorbearer won an allowance race at Ascot Park and Should-he race back to that performance as well as other races following, all three in the mud, the gelded son of Hash could give the others a tough battle. Mighty Epic will be remembered as contesting in the 0,000 added St. Louis Derby last fall at Cahokia Downs. He has started once here this season and gave a fine performance in an allowance race June 4, being beaten three lengths on a fast track by U. S. Navy, King Bebe and Mister Plucky. The Pholman four-year-old could prove dangerous should the course be soft for the Old Glory. Nile Prince has two successes at the meeting but has not met or defeated the kind he is going up against in tomorrows headliner.- Since the Monday Night pro- grams are off for the remainder of the meeting there will be nine race cards here on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays as well as July 4 when afternoon racing will be staged.
