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Sportsmans Sportsmans Attracts Attracts Speed Speed Rouser; Rouser; Dozen Dozen Clash Clash in in Louisville Louisville Handicap Handicap Good Gesture Also In Handicap Finale Topweighted Babbitz Horse Favored Over Nine Rivals in Todays Mile and Sixteenth By J. J. MURPHY SPORTSMANS PARK, Cicero. 111.. May 10. — A field of ten thoroughbreds, including winners of the three richest events previously run at the meeting, will try for the honors in the Sportsmans Park Handicap, a mile and a sixteenth feature at this course Saturday. It will be the getaway-day program of a very successful meeting staged by the National Jockey Club. Previous victors in important races here who will meet in the 5,000 race are Speed Rouser, owned by Dr. and Mrs. Sidney Babbitz: Good Gesture, owned by track announcer Dave Feldman and Jack R. Johnston, vice-president of this course; and King Bebe. owned by H. H. Rendleman. Second to Good Gesture in Inaugural Others in the line-up are B. and H Stables Rock Pilot. Olen Sledges Jimmy the One. Hoffman and Salvinos Volition, E. V. Landaiches Jims Whim, A. Saucier Jr.s Almas Heart, Maggio and Gregorys Tussle Patch, and Horace J. Wises Next Page. Speed Rouser. who was second to Good Gesture in the six and a half furlongs Inaugural Handicap on a slow track but who came back to easily defeat the latter and a number of other good ones in the mud in the one-mile Spring Handicap, will carry top-weight of 122 pounds. That is a two-pound boost from his package in the Spring Handicap. He will be ridden by Howard Craig, who was aboard him in the Continued on Page Fifty-Seven See Speed Rouser Choice In Ten-Horse Sportsmans Babbitz Star and Good Gesture Clash Again in Handicap Finale Continued from Page One Spring and is expected to go postward as the favorite. In taking the Inaugural from Speed Rouser, Good Gesture was in receipt of six pounds from the latter. In the Sportsmans Park Handicap he will have a bulge of eight pounds over the Babbitz runner. In the Spring, however, Good Gesture, receiving but two pounds from Speed Rouser, was beaten about 20 lengths by the latter. That marked the last time postward for each. Good Gesture get a riding change from Robert Baird to Jack Pieselman. With Speed Rouser and Good Gesture not competing in last Saturdays Thomas D. Nash Memorial Handicap, King Bebe, who won an allowance sprint on opening day, came from last place on a fast track to win going away from Rock Pilot, Tussle Patch and Sir Tribal. Unplaced in the event were Jimmy the One and Almas Heart, among others. The distance of the Nash was one and one-sixteenth miles. Clarence Meaux will again be aboard King Bebe. Rock Pilot and Tussle Patch both may run better races on Saturdays off-track than they did in the Nash. Rock Pilot was second to Speed Rouser in the Spring Handicap and drops one pound from that meeting, while Speed Rouser picks up two. Rock Pilot was third to Good Gesture and Speed Rouser in the Inaugural. Tussle Patch, who won the Bidwill Memorial at Hawthorne last fall, did not run his best race in the Nash, although he was going well at the finish. On past performances here, the others do not appear to rate too highly in this field. Jims Whim, in from Jamaica, was favored in his first start here Wednesday and finished last after having set the early pace in the mile and a sixteenth event won by Happy Lad. Next Page was fourth in that event. Volition, the lightweight, is regarded as an outsider, and as stated previously. Jimmy the One and Almas Heart were both beaten in the Nash, although Jimmy the One is a strong finisher and a good off-track runner.
