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STEEPLECHASES AT ARLINGTON Stake Blanks for Jumping Stakes Being Sent Out, Entries Closing on June 1. Otto W. Lehman, president of the Arlington Park Jockey Club, has directed the mailing to owners and trainers interested in steeplechasing, stake blanks for the first revival of the North Shore Handicap and the Lake Forest Handicap Inaugural, which will be features of the July racing at Arlington Park. These stakes, the one a gallop of two miles, the other at two miles and a half, each carrying an added money value of ,000, should gross upward of ,500 each and pay their winners all of ,000. They will be open to horses four years old and upward. The nomination fee in each is 5, the starting fee 00. They will close June 1, nominations to be mailed to the secretary of the Arlington Park Jockey Club, 646 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago. The same day supplementary nominations may be made to the Classic, the Inaugural, Stars and Stripes, Arlington and Matron Handicaps, the Lassie, Hyde Park and Post and Paddock Stakes and the Arlington Oaks; all of which had a first closing March 7. The Arlington meeting, the third under the aegis of the Arlington Park Jockey Club, an association of the leading men of big affairs in Chicago, will begin June 29. It will be marked by a purse distribution of 50,000 or more. The Classic, a gallop of one mile and a quarter, should gross 0,000 or thereabout, and be the most richly dowered race for three-year-olds, run anywhere in the world. There will be 0,000 in added money. The Post and Paddock, six furlongs, for two-year-olds, should top 5,000 and pay its winner close to 0,000. The Arlington Cup, one mile ad a quarter, 0,000 added, is one of Americas richest weight for age race for three-year-olds and over. It will cost 00 to name a horse June 1, for the Classic, 50 each for the Arlington Cup and Stars and Strips Handicaps, the Post and Paddock Stakes and the Cup, 00 each for the Oaks, Matron, Hyde Park and Lassie Stakes and 00 for the Inaugural. Patrons of Arlington Park sport saw last season the first steeplechasing Chicago has known in more than a quarter of a century. Beside the North Shore Inaugural, which Joseph E. Wideners Arc Light, Grand National winner of 1929, won with Mrs. Helen Hay Whitneys Valorous second, Valentine Cranes Personality third, William F. Hitts Crumpler fourth, Wideners Milan fifth and M. Sheas Fair Class sixth, there were fourteen overnight chases each of ,000. Another such program will be offered this year. Chicago racing folk took kindly to the fencers from the beginning. There will be a vastly greater number of good jumpers out from the East this season, because votaries of steeplechasing, veterans and recent recruits alike, are putting more and more money year after year in fencing stock of the first class. Leading nominators in the Arlington fencers stakes will be Mrs. Helen Hay Whitney. Mrs. John Hay Whitney, Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark, Mrs. Katherine Elkins Hitt, Mrs. Victor Emanuel, Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane, Mrs. Robert V. McKim, Mrs. Francis P. Garvin, Mrs. R. H. Crawford, Mrs. R. Penn Smith, Thomas Hitchcock, Joseph E. Widener, James Simpson, Jr., Rigan McKinney, Albert C. Bostwick, G. H. "Pete" Bostwick, F. Ambrose Clark, J. Fred Adams, Weston W. Adams, Victor Emanuel, Sumner Pingree, Edward Riley Bradley, William F. Hitt, John J. Nesbitt, George Sloane, William du Pont, Augustus F. Goodwin, John R. Ma-comber, James Clark, A. R. Loudon, Thomas Phelan, Eben Byers, J. F. Byers, Richard Howe, George W. Elkins, John Sanford, Stephen Sanford, M. Shea, J. O. Burgwin, Charles Schwartz, J. A. Hale, Bayard Tuck-erman, Bayard Warren, Kenneth Schley, etc.
