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HAWTHORNE HANDICAP DAY. Next Saturday the Chicago Jockey Club will open its spring .meeting and signalize the occasion with the first running of the new 0,000 Hawthorne Handicap. This big race, and the Harlem National gives the Chicago racing field two great races that will in time vie with the Brooklyn and Suburban in importance and public esteem, and will serve to place local racing on a higher plane. With a continuance of the present favorable weather it should suffice to bring out an attendance far in excess of any that has heretofore patronized racing at Hawthorne. Being an extraordinary occasion, the admission fee for that day will be raised to .50. On all other days it will remain at , as usual. Manager Kuhl and Secretary Clark are counting confidently on a field of at least fifteen, comprising the cream of the highest class handicap horses in the central western states. The following is the official list from which the field will come, with weights and probable jockeys: Horses. Wt Jockeys. McChesney 128 Glen Water 120 Donnelly Runnels 119 Houbre Hernando 119 J. Winkfield Inventor 115 Jimjnez 114 J. Winkfield South Trimble 113 T. Meade Favonius Ill C. Gray Jack Demund 110 T. Dean Caliban 110 M. Henry Harry New 110 H. Booker Wainamoinen 110 Birkenruth Sam Fullen ..• 109 Domimck Little Scout 109 Coburn Moor 107 Pirrman Potheen 10G A. Hall Hargis . .104 J. Reiff St. Tammany 102 Davisson Judge Himes 100 Otis Huzzah 100 Robbins Banter 99 Helgesen Au Revoir 98 Gregor K 9G P. Phillips Lendin 94 C. Bonner The Don 93 P. Phillips John A. Drakes racing stable of 35 head arrived at Hawthorne yesterday from Nashville in charge of trainer Wishard. Fifty horses belonging to Corrigan, Pat Dunnes 25, C. R. Ellisons IS, and 22 owned by Capt. S. S. Brown and in charge of trainer "Bob" Tucker are all coming up from Louisville within the next few days. * Turney Bros, and Sidney Bender are shipping to Chicago from St. Louis, and their horses will be here in time for the opening day at Hawthorne. There will be a considerable addition of riding talent, such as Winkfield, with P. Dunne; J. Reiff, with E. Corrigan; Helgesen, with Tucker; E. Donnelly, with Turney Bros.; C. Houbre and T. Meade, with Drakes stable; H. Booker, with C. R. Ellison; Scully, Reed and others. The following list of officials is announced by the Chicago Jockey Club for the spring meeting: Presiding Judge, Frank J. Bryan; Associate Judge, Sheridan Clark; Starter, J. J. Holtman; paddock judge and timer, James Loughman; entry clerk, Edward Jasper; clerk of the scales, H. F. Moore; racing secretary and handicapper, Sheridan Clark; Western Jockey Club steward, Geo. Carroll. A large nuber of special race trains will be run, but those on the Illinois Central will be unable during the spring meeting to make the usual stop at Ashland Avenue on account of the work of elevating the roadbed.
