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Sportsmans Park By J. J. Murphy 1 Weather Plays Havoc With Spring Meeting Excessive Rain Hard on New Race Surface Colt Marks Rickey to Join Landy Stable SPORTSMANS PARK, Cicero, 111., May 5.— There • is a line in "Casey at the Bat" that goes, "The flowers are blooming somewhere, and somewhere hearts are ■ ii _ light," but that does not apply to Chicago or Chicago racegoers, especially this weekend. Just when it was expected that business at Sportsmans Park would pick up, along came a spell of cold rainy weather for the second week end in succession, and it was figured that at the end of the Saturday racing day the session would be "down about 00,000 from last spring." It is a bad break for the Johnston brothers and their asso ciates who were, looking forward to a record session over their new five-eighths mile track this semester. And the continuous rain is beginning to show on the new strip. It has been noted that the jockeys have been avoiding the inside of the course as much as possible in the run from the far turn to the stretch turn, and_ that the majority of the ultimate winners have been in the middle of the. track at that phase of the contests. The three-year-old Derby candidate, Marks Rickey, recently purchased by Bernard W. Landy from Angelo Cilio, is expected to arrive at Washington Park Sunday. . . . Another important racer to change hands recently is Jimmy the One, purchased by Olen Sledge from Sahara Stable for an undisclosed sum. Jimmy the One will be shipped to Omaha, where he should be an important factor in the handicaps. . . . Jockey Tony Skoronski, who was named overnight to ride Sir Tribal in Saturdays Thomas D. Nash. Memorial Handicap, passed up the mount to remain in St. Anthonys Hospital. He will ride here during the final week. ... Jockey Roy Lumm will accompany the Grace Kosiba stable to Detroit. The horses will be sent to the Motor City at the conclusion of this meeting. . . ; Trainer Jim OBrey is visiting from Laurel. Router Deux Moulins Arrives Six horses owned by the Blossom Stable and trained by Neil Glass are on the grounds. They are Rays Blue Man, a good three-year-old; Pasha Saied, who was second at Jamaica a few weeks ago; Deux Moulins, who won several of the series of Ten Broeck distance races last summer, and Tahitian, Blue Licks, and Laches. . . . Racing, secretary Robert McAuliffe celebrated his 45th birthday Saturday and his f assistants presented him with a cake. . . . Former" jockey Dave Burney arrived from New Orleans for a short visit. . . . Williard L. Proctor will ship the horses in his care to River Downs at the end of this meeting. . . . Freeman E. Waldron will also send his runners to River Downs. . . . Eaton R. Moulder, owner and breeder of Tulsa, Okla., is here visiting with vice-president Jack Johnston. . . . John C. Daniel is distributing the Delaware Park stake application blanks. Racing lost a good friend when Judge Joseph Sabath died the other day at the age of 86. He was the father of the late Albert Sabath, who gained fame on the turf as the owner of the fine horse Alsab. . . . George Cruickshank, who was prominently connected with the Longacres track at Seattle in the early days of racing at that point and who has been hospitalized s the past few years, passed through Chicago Friday en route from Washington to Seattle. . . . Eddie Arcaro will be the guest of honor Monday. Last time Eddie appeared at this track he was just another rider trying to get along. That was in 1932. . . . Tremor, star of the Jacnot Stable, is the best horse Jack Hogan and his father ever owned. The four-year-old filly is reported to be training well at Washington Park. . . . Another stacking up well at Washington is Prince Noor, star of the string of Mrs. Charles Silver. Klucina Seeks Fairmount Cap Candidates Harry Hensen, who will do the announcing over the public address system at the Balmoral, Washington, and Arlington meetings, was an arrival from his home in Seattle. . . . Three horses owned by Barney Marshall got in from Lexington. . . . Pretty Peggy Fletcher is Klucina, racing secretary at Fairmount Park, was a again on the job as secretary to the president. . . . Jack visitor Saturday morning. He is interesting horsemen in the 5,000 added Fairmount Handicap, a new feature at the Collinsville course this year. The event for •three-year-olds and up at one and one-sixteenth miles will be run Saturday, June 16. . . . Mrs. Vasco Parke, wife of the official, was to undergo an appendectomy at Burley, Idaho, Saturday. . . . Apprentice Henri Saturday. Is under contract to Del Carroll, trainer of Robichaux accepted the third mount of his career here the Locust Lawn stable runners.
