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HAKLKM AND LAKESIDE STAKES. Plans for the Chicago racing season of 1900 were officially announced B a turd ay. Hawthorne, Harlem and Lakeside will give stake events, and dates for the meetings at these tracks have been fixed. Arrangements to this end were agreed neon yesterday at a conference between Richard Fitzgerald, President of the Chicago Earing Association, and Secretary M. NatbanEon, representing the Harlem Jockey Club and Lakeside Jockey Clnb. Lakeside, as usual will open the season. Its spring meeting of fifteen days will begin on May 10th or 12th. On May SOtb, Decoration Day, either Harlem or Hawthorne will open, and the two tracks will alternate with meetings of two or three weeks each until October 27th, Lakeside following with its fall season of fifteen days and closing November 15. It was also pait of the agreement that should the Washington Park Clnb decide to race, Harlem and Hawthorne will waive claim to the twenty-five days usually selected by the big Sonth Side racing organization. Secretary Nathaneon made public yesterday the conditions of the spring stakes for Harlem and Lakeside. They number seven for the Harlem track atd five for the Lakeside coarse, the former including tee novel Turf Congress SweepBtakes, of which a share is divided among the trainers and jockeyB of the placed horses. It will be worth over ,000. Three of the stakes are for ,GG0 each and three for ,800 each. Those for Lakeside are for ,8C0 and ,500 each. President Fitzgerald stated last night that the Hawthorne stakes were already being prepared and that he would tncounce the conditions within a week. He said they would be worth at least aa much as those offered by Harlem, and would likewise include a Turf Congress Sweepstakes with ,0CO in added money. Both the Weet Side Jockey Clubs intend their present istue of stake offerings imply for. the spring meetings. Before July 1st each will issue a formidable array of reliable fixtures to be contested for during the summer and fall meetings. These plans show an appreciation of the bocm locally accorded the sport lest Beaspn and insures for 1900 a year of high class racing. Purees will aho he increased and every effort made to attract the very best material. Entries to the Harlem and Lake-Bide stakes will close March let. The Hawthorne stakes may clete before that date. The Harlem spring stakes are as follows: THE HABLEM TUBF CONGBESS STAKES OF 1900 HANDICAP, ,00 Estimated For threeyear-clds and upward; entrance 0 each; .0 additional to start; ,C0O added ,000 by the Harlem Jockey Club and ,C00 by the Turf Congress, cf which 1900.sh to the seccsd atd 50 to the third and SCO to the trainers and jockeys of the placed horses, to be divided as provided by the conditions governing the contribution by the Turf Congrees. Weights to be announced three dajs before the day appointed for the race. A winner of other than a selling purse race after the announcement of weights to " carry 5 lbs. extra. One and Three-Sixteenths Miles. THE AUSTIN STAKES SELLING, S2.CC0 For three-year-olde and upward. Entrance, 0 each; 0 additional to start. To the winner, ,500; to the second, 00, and to the third, 00. The winner to ba sold at auction. Horses entered to be sold for ,000, to. carry weight for age; 2 lbB. allowed for each 00 to J2.0G0; then 1 lb. for each 00 to C0. Starters with Belling prices must be named tbrongh entry box at the nsualhonr of closing the day pieceding the race. One and One-Sixteenth Miles. THE CHICAGO STAKES, ,CC0. For three-year-olds and upward. Entrance 0 each; 0 Additional to start. To the winner ,500, to the second 00, and to the third 00. A winner in 19C0 of a race of the value of 3,000 or of three races of the value of ,000 each to carry 5 lbs. extra. Non-winners in 1900 of a race the value of ,000 allowed 5 lbs.; of C0, 8 lbs.; of 00. 12 lbs. ; of 1900.sh0, 15 lbB. Winners in 1899 and 1900 of three racea of the valne of ,500 each entitled to no allowances. One Mile. " THE ILLINOIS STAKES SELLING, ,000 For three-year-olds and upward. Entrance 0 each, 0 additional to start. To the winner ,500; to the second 00, and to the third 00. The winner to be sold at auction. Horses entered to be Bold for ,700 to carry weight for age; 2 lbs. allowed for each 00 to ,200: then 2 lbs. for each 00 to 00 Starters with selling priceB mutt be named through entry box at the usual hour of closing the day nreceding the race. Sir Furlongs. THE YOUNGSTEB STAKES, ,800 For two-year-olds foals of 1S98; entrance 0 each, 0 additional to start. To the winner, ,4G0; to the second, 1250, and to the third, 50. Weights. 115 lbs. A winner of a race of the value of 00 to carry 3 lbs. : of two such races, 5 lbs.; of three or n ore stake raceB of any value. 8 lbs. rxtra. Non-winners of a race of the value of 00 allowed 3 lbs.; maidens, 5 lbs.; maidens that have run in a stake race and not been-placed in such, 8 lbs. Five Furlongs. THE PROVISO STAKES SELLING, ,800 For two-year-olds foals of 1898. Entrance 0 each. 0 additional to start. To the winner, ,400; to the Becond, 50, and to the third, 50. The w inner to be sold at auction. Horses entered to be sold for ,000 to carry scale weight: 1 lb. allowed for esch 50 to ,CC0; then 1 lb. for each 00toC0; then 2 lbs. for each 00 to 00. A winner after April 1st of a race of a value of J9C0 to be entered for not less than ,000. Starters, with selling prices, must be named through entry box at the ububI hour of closing the day preceding the race. Five FurlongB. THE JTJNIOB STAKES, .800 For two-year-olds foals cf 1898. Entrance, 0 each ; 0 additional to start, To the winner. ,400; to the second, 50, and to the third, 50. A winner of a race of a value of ,C00 to carry 3 lbs.; of two such raceB, or cf the Youngster Stakes, 5 lbs. ; of three or more raceB of the value of ,000 each, 8 lbs. extra. Maidens allowed 7 lbs. Maidens that have run in a stake since April 1 and have not baen placed in Buch allowed 10 lbs. Five and One-Half Furlongs, The Lakeside spring stakes are aB follows : THE LAKESIDE STAKES, 800. For three-year-olds and upward. Entrance 0 et ch; 0 additional to start. To the winner, ,400; to the second, 50, and to the third, 50. A winner in 1900 of a rece of a value of ,000 or of three races of the value of C0 each, to carry 5 lbB.; three racea of the value of ,500, each in 1899 and 1900, 7 lbs. extra ; other horses that have not won in 19G0 a race of the value of .2C0. allowed 3 lbs. each; of ,060,5 lbs.; of 00, 8 lbs.; of 500, 12 lbs.; of 00, 15 lbs. One and One-Sixteenth Miles. CALUMET STAKES SELLING, 81,800 For three-year-olds and upward. Entrance 0 each, 0 additional to start. To the winner ,4C0; to the second 50; to the third 50. The winner to be sola at auction. Hordes entered to be sold for ,500 to carry weight for age; 1 lb. ollowed for each 00 to 00. Starters with felling prices must be named through entry box at usual hour of closing the day preceding tho race. One Mile. THE INDIANA STAKES HANDICAP, ,800 For three-year-olds and upward; entrance 0, 0 additional to start. To the winner, ,400; to tbe second, 50, and to the third, 50. Weights to be announced three days before the oay appointed for the race. A winner t f other than a selling purse race after the announcement of weights to carry 5 lb, extra. Six Furlongs. THE HAMMOND STAKES, ,5G0-For two-year-olds foals of 1898. Entrance, 0 each; 0 additional to start. To the winner, ,150; to the second, 50, and to tho third, 10. A winner of a race of the value of 00 to carry 3 lbs.; of two stake races of any value, 5 lbs. extra; non-winners of a race of a value of 00 allowed 3 lbs; maicens, 7 lbs.; maidens beaten three or more times, 10 lbs. Four and Ono-Half Furlongs. THE WHITING STAKES SELLING, ,500 For two-year-olds foals of 1898. Entrance 0 each, 0 additional to etart. To tho winner Si, 150; to the second 50, and to tho third 00. The winner to ba sold at auction. Horses entered to be eold for , GOO to carry scale weight; 1 lb. allowed for each 10 to ,000; then 1 lb. for each C0 to 00. Starters with soiling prices must be named through entry box at the usual hour of closing the day preceding tbe race. Five Furlongs. J
