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Brown Booter Has Nine Opponents in King Philip Favored to Beat Amyn Bey Over Middle Distance at Narragansett By J. N. LYON Staff Correspondent NARRAGANSETT PARK, Pawtucket, R. I., June 17. Saturdays nineteenth running of the mile and one-sixteenth 5,000 added King Philip Handicap has attracted a well-matched field of nine middle distance performers and is to be headed by Char-fran Stables Brown Booter who is to carry top weight of 116 pounds. With all 10 traveling postward the purse will gross 6,425 of which the winner will ne$ 0,800. The King Philip is the first stake event to be contested during this 24-day summer session and has drawn a most representative field for slated to face the high weight are J. P. Cavals Amyn Bey, 115; Mrs. F. Calcangnis Isle of Bond, 114; Irving Gushens Dudley Darbury, 113; P. and J. Venutis Pipe of Peace, 112; Jerry Lynchs Sonic, 112; Red Head Stables Bank Coal, 110; R. R. Damons Hat Box, 110, and W. G. Mortons Fife and Drum, 109 pounds. Brown Booter, a five-year-old son of Our Boots Portable, has no easy pickings in tomorrows test for even though he will be conceding but one to seven pounds to his opposition he has nevertheless been doing his best running over the grass rather than on the dirt ovals. The Randy Se- chrest-trained star is no newcomer this year for he was at Suffolk last month for the Commonwealth Handicap "and suffered the ill luck of bolting on the first turn of that infield grass course. However, following that effort he was sent back to New York and tried in .an overnight handicap on the regular track and this time failed to show any tendency to bear out on the turns. Inasmuch as these two efforts are the only ventures postward this year for Brown Booter it would seem safe to say that he should be ready for his best. Norman Mercier has been signed to handle Brown Booter tomorrow and he could well get the "Big Brown" home on top for his first victory since winning the Long Branch Handicap at Monmouth Park last August. Amyn Bey, rated just one pound back of the highweight, has come up to the race in perfect shape for during the Suffolk meeting the colt not only accounted for one division of the Commonwealth Handicap, where he covered the about mile and one-sixteenth distance of the grass course in 1:47 while lifting 113 pounds, but also won an overnight conditioned event at a mile and one-sixteenth in fast time. Isle of Bond, while consistent enough of a performer, still seems to do his best running at the sprint distances rather than in the longer races as evidenced by his form which shows that the farthest he has attempted to go this year has been seven furlongs. However the gelding has plenty of speed and it may just be that his connections will attempt to go out and steal the race.
