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PROSPECTS OF THE HAWTHORNE MEETING. ] Many of Chicagos Leading Men Backers of the Revival of Chicago Racing. . Chicago is to have horse racing again. While that has been promised for several weeks, only | those in the Illinois Jockey Club know just how , strong Chicago is for a revival of the sport. Now. for the first time, the club, through its secretary -treasurer. Eugene V. Beifeld. announces the names , of the men, who have lent their names and their I money to the movement, on condition that the I meeting at Hawthorne Park from July 15 to 29. I inclusive, will lie conducted without betting. Many : of the biggest men in town have subscribed to the meeting and the success of racing in Illinois, even without lietting, is assured. When it was first announced that the Illinois : Jockey Club had been organized for the purpose of putting the race horse back on his throne in this state and that the club had leased from Tom Carey, one of the local pioneers of the sport, his Hawthorne race track, there were many who protested and others who declared that inasmuch as it was the general opinion that racing could not be conducted successfully without betting, that there was something "under cover" in this movement. When such men as C. K. G. Billings, of the Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company and other corimrations ; Samuel Insull of the Commonwealth Edison Company: J. Ogden Armour of Armour and Company; Frank Froehling of Froehling and Heppe; Edward S. Aloore, son of Judge William S. Aloore of railway and blue ribbon horse show-fame: Olive Bnnnells, vice president of the Pullman Palace Car Co.; James A. Pugh of the Pugh Terminal Warehouse Company; Joseph Beifeld of the Hotel Sherman and others get behind the movement, the public may rest assured that the sport will be conducted as it should be. During the inaugural meeting there will be three stake races run in the course of its thirteen days of racing and the entries will close on July 1 with a promise of aliout 400 horses at the track for the meeting. Six races a day is the schedule, and on the first day the American Derby, the last one of which was run during the last meeting at Washington Park in 1904. will be revived with a guaranteed value of 0,000 as the main incentive to race horse owners. The distance of the Derby will lie a mile and a quarter and the race will be for three-year-olds. On a date to lie set later there will be the Chicago Merchants Handicap for three-year-olds and over, with ,200 added. This race will lie for three-quarters. The club also has offered the Illinois Jockey Club Gold Cup Handicap of a mile and a sixteenth. This will have ,000 added and is for three-year-olds and over. In addition to the regular daily purses, overnight prizes will include cash and cups given by Chicago business men. Capt. Thomas J. Clay, of Lexington. Ky., has been engaged as the presiding judge and James F. Mill— as starter. Before Martin Nathanson. racing secretary, de-paited for Cincinnati to arrange for entries, he declared that during his stay in Alontreal he had received promises of some seventy-five horses which will lie shipped to Chicago in time for the meeting. Alost of these will lie sent here after the Fort Erie meeting. There is every promise of a large number of horses from Latonia, which closes July 11. After his stay in the Ohio city Air. Nathanson proposes to go to New York to visit the Belmont and other stables for entries, especially for the American Derby. OlhVials of the Illinois Jockey Club declare that with proper public approval and support there will be no trouble in conducting racing at a profit.
