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Sir Tribal Goes in Nash Memorial Sportsmans Event At Route Distance DistanceTussle Tussle Patch Rock Pilot 1956 Winner of Handicap Five Others Will Compete CompeteBy By J J MURPHY MURPHYSPORTSMANS SPORTSMANS PARK Cicero 111 May 3 National Jockey Club officials expect to entertain the largest crowd of the current Sportsmans Park meeting Saturday after ¬ noon when they present the third running of the s15000 Thomas D Nash Memorial Memorialji ji mile and onesixteenth test which will bring out some of the best horses stabled in the Chicago area Charles Fritzs Sir Tribal the gray streak for several years one of the top handicap stars to perform at Sportsmans Park heads the field Last year Sir Tribal defeated some of the best handicap horses at rthe BalmoralWash ¬ ingtonArlington Park meetings He won his last two efforts during his Oaklawn Park campaign last March MarchThe The sixyearold gelded son of Tribal II Nigella will go postward as the probable favorite and will have the services of jock ¬ ey Tony Skoronski who is a popular fellow with the fans arid a lad who knows his way around the fiveeighths mile racing strip Sir Tribal has been burdened with the top impost of 122 pounds by racing secretary Robert P McAuliffe Ran Second to Needles NeedlesHenry Henry D Maggio and John J Gregorys stake winner Tussle Patch a onetime sta blemate of Swaps and recent winner of an allowance race at Gulfstream Park will have a fivepound pull in weights for Sat ¬ urdays feature Tussle Patch figures as the second choice in the prerace line and will carry 117 pounds He was second to Needles in the 25000 Fort Lauderdale Handicap a one and onesixteenth mile affair at Gulf stream on April 6 and also competed in the 50000 Southern Cross a one and one eighth mile handicap but finished out of the money moneyJob Job Dean Jessop the veteran who is dp ing a fine riding job at the meeting will be aboard Tussle Patch who last year trimmed the highly regarded Swoons Son at Hawthorne HawthorneB B H Stables Rock Pilot the 1956 Continued on Page FortySeven CHARLES FRITZ Owner of Sir Tribal Tribalwho who is making his 1957 Chicago bow in inthe the Thomas D Nash Memorial at th Sportsmans Park course today Sir Tribal Tops Eight Vying In Thomas D Nash Memorial MemorialContinued Continued from Page Two TwoNash Nash Memorial winner carrying 111 pounds including jockey Ronnie Baldwin looms as the third choice in the race He raced close up in his two Sportsmans Park appearances this year running second to Speed Rouser last Saturday in the one mile Spring Handicap and on opening day was third behind Good Gesture and Speed Rouser in the Inaugural InauguralAmong Among other potential starters in Sat ¬ urdays feature will be Marion H VanBergs Better Goods winner of the 25000 Na ¬ tional Jockey Club Handicap last fall Harold H Rendlemans King Bebe a win ¬ ner at the meeting on opening day Olen Sledges Jimmy the One who ran well at Sportsmans Park last fall and raced at Oaklawn Park this spring springSpeed Speed Rouser was not named for the event due to the fact that he had a hard race over a rugged track in the Spring Handicap and trainer Scott was desirous of having him obtain a good rest in view of some of the richer races coming up Trainer Marion VanBerg decided to try with Better Goods alone and failed to enter his good South American runner Estacion The first race Saturday wiUbe at 130 pm and during the afternoon the result of the Kentucky Derby will be announced to the crowd over the public address system
