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, i Sportsmans Cap Saturday Feature Winners of Three Previous Headliners During Meeting Among Probable Starters SPORTSMANS PARK, Cicero. 111.. May 9. — Winners of three previous handicaps at Sportsmans Park will most likely be among the entries in Saturdays feature, the 5,000 Sportsmans Park Handicap at a distance of one mile and one -sixteenth. This will be the first time that the victors of each handicap will be in the same field. Blossom Stables Good Gesture, winner of the 0,000 Inaugural on opening day, was unplaced in the one mile Spring Handicap the following week. The winner of that event was Dr. Sidney G. and Hannah Bab-bitz Speed Rouser. The following Saturday. May 4, in the 5,000 Thomas D. Nash Memorial, at one and one-eighth miles. Soeed Rouser was missing from the list of entries when Harold H. Rendlemans King Befce. at odds of 30-to-l. took down the race. Sir Tribal Unfortunate in Nash Absent from the two earlier handicaps was Charles Fritz Sir Tribal, a prime favorite with Chicago fans as well as one of the best handicap horses in the area. Sir Tribal made his seasonal debut at Sportsmans Park in last Saturdays Nash Memorial and was a victim of bad racing luck, being in tight quarters most of the way in the one and one-eighth mile race. As the 4-to-5 favorite. Sir Tribal wound up fourth. B and H Stables Rock Pilot, which competed in all three of the races is also nominated for Saturdays event. Rock Pilot was in the money in each attempt, being second to King Bebe last week, second in the Spring Handicap to Speed Rouser. and third behind Good Gesture and Speed Rouser in the Inaugural, which was a six and one-half furlong race. Others expected to be in the Sportsmans Park Handicap are Henry D. Maggio and John J. Gregorys pair of Kopes Hope and Tussle Patch, and Olen Sledges Jimmy the One. Tussle Patch was third in the Nash Memorial while Jimmy the One finished fifth.
