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HAWTHORNE ANNOUNCEMENT To Discontinue Races at One Mile and Seventy Yards — Hawthorne Handicap Distance Changed. In their endeavor to overlook no detail which might improve the racing at Hawthorne, officers of the Chicago Business Mens Racing Association have approved such changes for the coming season as the discontinuance of races at one mile and seventy yards, and increasing from one mile and one-sixteenth to one mile and one-eighth the distance of the rich Hawthorne Handicap, outstanding handicap feature of the summer meeting. In eliminating use of the one mile and seventy yards distance, the shortest of the route races at the Stickney track will be one mile and one-sixteenth. At the latter distance chances for crowding in the run to the first or club house turn are greatly reduced, and the change should work for cleaner racing and reduce to a minimum chances for accidents at the turn so quickly reached from the mile and mile and seventy yards points. In its first running in 1927, the Hawthorne Handicap was decided over one mile and one-eighth, but each subsequent renewal was at one mile and one-sixteenth. Last year the fixture was worth 6,000 to the Reichert Brothers, whose Brown Wisdom triumphed and in 1929 the same Illinois owners took down 8,550 when their My Dandy captured the prize over Karl Eitel, Easter Stockings and others.
