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PLAN HAWTHORNE STAKES Judge Murphy to Invade East for Candidates for Hawthorne Gold Cup. The Hawthorne officials are already at work on the stakes for the summer meeting, although they do not close until July 11, and they are also appraising the field as horses develop for the Hawthorne Gold Cup, to be run October 10. Joseph A. Murphy, general manager, left for St. Louis this morning and will go from there to Baltimore for the Preakness, and will then proceed to New York so as to keep in close touch with the eastern horsemen. From reservations already received, it is evident that Chicago will entertain divisions of many of the big eastern establishments, and the Hawthorne Stakes will take over an intersection of interest greater than ever before in the history of racing at the historic plant. The Hawthorne Gold Cup, which is the pride of every Hawthorne official, and which has grown in the three years of its history into the championship race of the year for three-year-olds and upward, promises another sterling contest. It begins to look as though the three-year-olds of the year would be above the average of the past years, and the winner of the race may come from that division. No three-year-old has yet won the race. There was considerable disappointment last year when Gallant Fox, which was being pointed for the race, started coughing, which necessitated his retirement for the year, but this years crop of three-year-olds is one to be reckoned with, and out of it may come, in the gradual survival of the fittest, from the Preakness and the various Derbys, a standout horse, as Gallant Fox was last year.
