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ILLINOIS JOCKEY CLUBS RACING PROGRAM. Stakes Advertised and List of Racing Officials Announced — No Betting to Be Allowed. The Illinois Jockey Clubs advertisement in this issue of Daily Racing Form of stake races to close for entries July 1 gives its proposed July meeting an aspect of certainty heretofore lacking in a measure. It also reveals the fact that Martin Nathanson is to ait as racing secretary and in that gies horsemen an assurance of experience and elliciency in a position that has mueli to do with the success and orderly dispatch of a race meeting. The announcement of Capt. T. J. Clay as presiding judge and of J. F. Milton as starter will lie received with approbation. In such selections the clul is on the right track to public favor. The stake races offered an- three in number and in consideration of the problems to be settled at this meeting are as much as could well be expected. Horsemen will be glad to see Chicago on the racing map again and will no doubt help the enterprise by liberal nominations. The first step towards securing good horses for tin- meeting will In- taken this week by Mr. Nathan-son when he leaves for Montreal and other Canadian cities. In the northern dominion he will secure stake nominations and arrange for the shipment of horses to Chicago. Later officials of the Illinois Jockey Club will visit Latonia on a similar mission, the success of Which has already been assured. A forcible statement concerning the absolute pro- hibition of betting at Hawthorne, which leaves no doubt unsettled, was issued by racing secretary Na-thonson. He said: "This will be a lawful sporting event in every sense of the word. There will be absolutely no recognition of betting in any form by the Illinois Jockev club or by its attaches. Organized betting will not be tolerated on the premises controlled by this club. Any pflM found offering or taking bets will be promptly ejected from the grounds. This is putting it strong, but we will have the strength to carry out our promises. In addition to police and county officers detailed to see that the laws of the state of Illinois are rigidly observed, we will have on hand an adequate force of Pinkerton detectives. "The utter exclusion of the gambling element from this project was the first condition laid down by those high grade Chicago business men who have since given their heartv support to the race meeting. They, like many thousands of others, want racing in Chicago and they are willing to bring it back in its full glory at considerable expense to thein-selvi s. But they will not support any unlawful proposition. They are supporting the Hawthorne meeting because it will restore clean, high-class racing 011 .1 strictly law-abiding basis." The Hawthorne meeting is happily timed in an interval between the close of the Kentucky racing season July 11 and the opening of Saratoga July 31. Thus there will b- no friction or division of interest among horsemen, who may give each meeting in its turn their undivided interest and attention. It is announced that there will be no purse of less than $."10 and that S600 or more will be added in sjieeial races throughout the meeting. There will be purses sul-serilK-d by Chicago mer-hants f.ir various feature races. Hawthorne will he shipshape in every particular many days 1 fore the opening of the meeting. Arrangements have already been completed for the transportation of vast crowds to and from the course. A complete staff of officials and clerical help is now installed in the Illinois Jockey Club headquarters at the Hotel Sherman. Publication of the list of subscribers to the project, including a large number of the best-known Chicago business men. is assured at an early date, and it is believed that this list in itself will form a complete answer to unfounded gambling rumors. Frank Froehling. the well-known Chicago meat merchant, is president of the Illinois Jockey Club, as was previously announced, and the name of Eugene V. Beifeld. one of the proprietors of the Hotel Sherman, now appears as secretary-treasurer. The directors of the Illinois Jockey Club are Frank Froehling. Eugene Beifeld, J. B. Cox, Charles Boedeker and F. W. Bering.
