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RED CROSS SUBSCRIPTION CHASE To Be Run at Saratoga and Is Expected to Realize 0,000 for the Fund. New York. June 28. — The Saratoga track next August, during the wonderful meeting that will In-held at the "Ascot" course of America, will be the scene of one of the richest and most popular steeplechase races ever held in this country. It will lie the Red Cross Subscription Steeplechase at two miles and will Is- purely a s|x rtiug event. It will be a handicap for three-year-olds by subscription of ,000 each, with the association to add ,000 and a pteca of plate valued at 00. The owner of the winner will receive the plate and save his entrance fee. while the remainder of the sulcription money will be turned over to the Red Cross. This event, which was suggested by Frank Bryan, has made a d» cided hit with a host of amateur sportsmen and Mr. Bryans only fear is that there will not be enough horses available to carry the colors of all those who will lie anxious to be represented. The race will lie run Saturday. August 17, and the subscriptions are to close July 15. Both Frank Ilryan and A. McL. Earlocker, racing secretary of the Saratoga Association, are confident that this race will ha a great success and that it will be tiie means of placing at least 0,000 in the lap of "the greatest mother in the world," the Red Cross.
