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Inaugural Day at Washington Park r=- ■ - 8 — • — ■ LOCAL RACING SEASON , Greater Chicago to Welcome Return of Its Popular Diversion. 1 Brilliant Opening Forecast for Waslu t ington Park Jockey Club Spring Meeting of 1931. t £ The following are the named start- i ers in the Washington Park Handi ly i cap, the ,000 added opening day i feature for three-year-olds and over, at six furlongs: Horse. Wt. Jockey. 1 1 — Crofton 102.L. Cunningham 1 2— Lady Fingers. 106 H. Fisher 3— Bron Wisdom.117 C. Meyer 4 — Zacaweista ...106 P. Dyer • 5— Prce Atheling.107 H. Neal r 6 — Justinian 107 J. Smith 7— St. Jim 100 D. Meade • 8— Red Russia... 100.... H. R. Riley ■ 9— Cayuga 117 R. Finnerty I 10— Martis 108... F. Chiavetta I 11— Satin Spar 115 R. Jones 12 — Don Leon Ill E.James I 13— Nifty 104 C. Corbett 14— Stock Market. 108 W. Garner 15— Pansy Walker .113 T. May | : 16 — Conscience ...98 J. McCoy • 17— Best Man 113 C.E.Allen I 18— Tannery 112 T. Vercher I j jl 5 Greater Chicago greets another season of racing, a season awaited with keenest anticipation, and its inauguration at the picturesque Washington Park course Monday afternoon will, under favorable weather con-" ditions, overshadow any such occasion in J the grand old or brilliant new days of the great sport in this section. The opening • at hand inaugurates a meeting of thirty f days at the Homewood course of the Wash-s ington Park Jockey Club, and a local or Chicago season that will not conclude until J the golden days of late October. FIVE MONTHS OF RACING. - During the five months of racing at tracks • in Cook and Will Counties, five meetings will be held. The Washington Park season, | closing on June 27, will be followed by thirty ■ days of mid-summer sport at Arlington Park. With the close of Arlington on Aug- l ust 1, the gates of Hawthorne, oldest of I the four local tracks, open on a meeting of eighteen days, from August 3 to August I 22, inclusive. From Hawthorne the thor-I oughbreds move out to Lincoln Fields, the lone course situated in Will County, to race for thirty days, from August 24 to Septem-t ber 28, and then return to the former Stick- ney track for the closing meeting of this fifth season since the sport was re-estab- • lished on a legal basis. Each season since the comparatively re- J cent welcoming back of legalized racing witnessed its popularity mounting in great leaps and bounds until now Chicago is fore- : most among the worlds many great centers of the sport. Its control by sportsmen and direction or supervision by some of our outstanding racing men is largely responsible for the amazing momentum of popularity attained, and theie is every indication that in the season opening Monday it will enjoy greater patronage, glamor, wholesomeness and prosperity than ever before. VALUABLE ATTRACTIONS. Some of the richest of the stakes and handicaps to be run include the American Derby, coming up at Washington Park on June 20; Arlingtons Classic Stakes and Arlington Handicap; the Hawthorne Handicap and Hawthorne Gold Cup at Hawthorne; Lincoln Handicap at Lincoln Fields; Francis S. Peabody Mfmorial Handicap, another of the Washington Park attractions; Arlingtons Matron Stakes and Post and Paddock Stakes; the Illinois Oaks at Washington Park; Dearborn Handicap at Hawthorne, and many others. The Washington Park Handicap of ,000 added and with many of the star sprinters Continued on ticenty-sccond page.. e »- s s e g i- is s - r, in n r a a a a s a r s t a d n i- is ts i, 3- all i- -z a a a a LOCAL RACING SEASON Continued from first page. i of the country groomed for the three-quar-s ters contest, is the stake feature on Mon-n days sparkling program at Washington Park. It should well thrill and entertain for the seasons inaugural and the running will be witnessed by hundreds of the fore-n most citizens of the great mid-continent metropolis, scores of out-of-town notables, and thousands of lower stations, visiting and local. Interest in the return of racing plainly presages a record-breaking crowd for the day and augers a season exceeding the bounds of all that have gone before, Despite two weeks of extremely unfavorable weather, the Homewood course is right at its best and spic and span for the inaug-a ural, and Col. M. J. Winn, executive director, and C. W. Hay, general manager, are at ease after a long, painstaking tussle with the elaborate plans under which the meet-e ing will be conducted. Excepting regular everyday details, arrangements were com-i- pleted today when the rehearsal of em-a ployes went off with mid-season smoothness. Colonel Winn and his associates look for the 0,00 added American Derby to develop the greatest race in the record of that revived glorious race of races in the minds of Chicagos older devotees, and he is mak-d ing extensive preparations for the coming renewal of the prize, annexed last year by Reveille Boy in one of the most shocking upsets of the year. It is altogether probable that Twenty Grand, the Kentucky Derby winner, will head the field of starters in the approach-11 ing running, and his company will include Sweep All, Mate, Spanish Play, Jamestown, Boys Howdy, Scotlands Glory, Major Lan- : phier, Ladder, Pittsburgher, Oswego, Back Log, The Mongol, Don Leon, Knights Call, Up and others to make up the outstanding field obtained from among the three-year-g olds this year.
