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READY AT LINCOLN FIELDS • Latest Improvements Greatly Enhance Beauty of Crete Track. — — i : Foremost Turfmen of Country to Be Represented at the Meeting Opening July 2 — Traffic Congestion Relieved. CRETE, 111., June 19.— Beautified to the extent that it takes rank with any race track in America, Lincoln Fields is ready to receive the numerous horses for its first meeting, which opens on July 2. Superintendent Tom Young, who has been on the job since Churchill Downs closed, has the plant in perfect condition. Work on the roadways leading to the course is completed and Chicago-ans will find traffic congestion considerably relieved this year. Some of the stables that have made reservations at Lincoln Fields are E. B. McLean, twenty-seven horses ; E. R. Bradley, eighteen ; H. G. Bedwell, twenty-five ; A. Jack Baker, embracing the R. S. Clark and A. B. Hancock hcrses as well as his own, thirty ; Audiey Farm, thirty : Harned Brothers, eighteen ; Clyde Van Dusen, nineteen ; T. P. Hayes, twenty; Coldstream Stud Stable, eighteen; Johnson N. Camden, two divisions, one in charge of Roscoe Goose and the other under the care of Danny Stewart ; Seagram Stable, eighteen ; John M. Goode, fourteen ; Three Ds Stable, thirty, and George M. Hendrie, fourteen. Superintendent Young has spread sixty carloads of sand over the Lincoln Fields track and, regardless of weather conditions, it has had long enough to settle. This morning a rain came up and in less than two hours the harrows were stirring up dust. D. X. Murphy, Louisville architect, who built Lincoln Fields and looks after all of the improvements at the tracks Colonel Winn is in charge of, will depart for Louisville tomorrow. He has made many changes at the Crete course since the last meeting. Colonel Winn will go to Latonia to see the Latonia Derby run Saturday, as will Judge C. W. Hay, who is in charge of affairs at Washington Park. Both will return Monday. Requests for stalls from eastern turfmen have been received by the Lincoln Fields management in large numbers. Most of the turfmen from the Atlantic Coast will not only bring horses to contest the various stakes but thoroughbreds eligible for the overnight races as well. In the band that trainer John F. Schorr will bring here for Mr. McLean will be Toro, winner of the American Derby ; Jock, one of Americas best handicap horses ; Greenock, which has just found his form ; Port Harlem, which races for Martin Finn and which won the Debutante Stakes at Louisville and the Clipsetta Stakes at Latonia. The Camden stable has a number of two-year-olds in it that have not faced the barrier Continued on twenty-fourth page. READY AT LINCOLN FIELDS Continued from first page. as yet and in all probability a merger of this establishment will be effected. The good fillv Dark Phantom is eligible for several stakes at the Lincoln Fields course. Included in the Seagram stable is Solace, one of the best three-year-olds of the season. Trainer W. H. Bringloe haa tnis outfit in charge and he has every horse ready to run to "parts unknown." The widening of the stairways at Lincoln Fields and the extension of the lawn will give the patrons just about one-fourth more space than last year. They will also be under complete shelter at all times. Judge Charles F. Price, who is in charge of the racing at Latonia, will leave that course several days previous to the opening of the Lincoln Fields meeting in order to arrange the preliminary details in his department. Judge William II. Shelley, veteran racing secretary, also will assume his duties at the Crete track about a week before the season is ushered in. Trainer C. E. Durnell stabled one part of the Three Ds establishment at Lincoln Fields today.
