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HARLEMS PROGRAM. The program book for the first week of the second summer meeting of the Harlem Jockey Club is out and it seems likely to furnish plenty of good racing for the first half of September. Harlem will reopen its gates on Monday next, which is Labor Dar, and the popular holiday will be celebrated by running the Twentieth Century Handicap, Harlems ,000 race, which arouses as much interest as any of the big handicaps in the west, with the possible exception of the Young and Wheeler. This year it has 100 entries, and, as practically all the best handicap horses at a middle distance are entered, there should be little doubt about a large field of high class running for this rich prize. The weights will be given out by Secretary Nathanson his afternoon. During the week two other stakes are to be run They are the Sapling, worth ,000, for two-year-olds and upward at a half mile, and the Oak Park Handicap for throe-year-olds at a mile and a furlong, worth ,500. The Sapling Stakes will be run on Thursday of next week and the Oak Park Handicap on Saturday. Three steeplechases of 00 each will be carded for Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Attention is called in the book to an announce ment that racing will commence at 2:15 daily, and not at 2 oclock; also to the fact that with September 1 comes a change in the sex allowance for fillies and mares, the five pounds of the summer being cut down to three. An innovation on the program is a race formaiden jockeys and another for maiden steeplechasers. The dates for the four stakes to be run at the autumn meeting of seven days also are given in the book. They are September 29. for the Forward Stakes; October 1 for the Prairie State Stakes; October 4 for the Tecumseh Handicap, and October 6, the last day at Harlem Park this year, for the Chicago Stakes, which will be worth at least ,500.
