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Two ,000 Handicaps Head Ascot Program Speak Free, Colonel Velvet in Dash; Marmion in ljf6 Miles Test By W. A. CRUSE ASCOT PARK, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, May 11.— The Ascot Park Jockey Club offers the initial running of two handicaps Saturday which are to become annual events at this meeting. The first is the ,000 Beacon Journal Handicap, and the other is the ,000 Fair-lawn Heights -Handicap. Both for three-year-olds and older horses, the distances are six and one-half furlongs and one and . one-sixteenth miles, respectively. In the Beacon Journal, J. D. Rogers Speak Free has been assigned top impost of 123 pounds.. Next in consideration is H? W. Kellehers Colonel Velvet /with 199 pounds. The four others and their respective allotments are as follows: H. N. Warrens Noble Dream, 106, the light weight; E. Luthers The Snapper and N. R. Lows Akboy, 114 each, and E. A. Simpsons Legate, 116 pounds. The Fairlawn has a larger contingent and including a coupling there are nine which accepted the weights assigned. Marmion, part of the Potato Chip Farms Continued on Page Fifty-Three Two-,000 Handicaps Head Ascot Program Speak Free, Colonel Velvet in Dash; Marmion in 1% Miles Test » Continued from Page One entry, is topweighted with 118 pounds. Harry Husman, the other half has but 108 pounds, and down the line the shift in weights one way or the other does not appear prohibitive to any one of the contestants. L. Loyds Akbull has 108, Frabotto and Rileys Drogheda and J. Rogers Loto-gab have 109 each; C. B. Sanders Glenn K„ 110; the Millcreek Farms Treaty Stone, 108 also along with Mrs. G. L. McNeils Dandy Sue, and E. J. Grosfields Gray Gown has 112 to carry. Speak-Free has had but two outings this year, both over this course. In the first, he disappointed, but in the most recent outing over a sloppy track and at seven furlongs, was victorious. He is picking up but five pounds over that and looms the logical candidate in the small field. Marmion is a highly consistent sort and like Speak Free, appears the one to beat in this affair. However, some opposition could come from Glenn K. who has" already turned in two consecutive victories, including a three and one-half lengths verdict on the speedy Flying Bry, in the DeWitts Auto Ranch Purse. Prior to this, he was *a five-length victor in the For-sythia Purse. On both occasions the strip was off, but, in the Forsythia, it was muddy, and will quite probably be in the same condition when he meets Marmion tomorrow.
