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SPRING MEETING AT B AINBRIDGE PARK BEGINS TODAY j, w INAUGURAL HANDICAP ♦ Principal Offering of Most Promise ing Opening Program. ♦ Racing Material of Better Grade and in Large Numbers Available for Thirty-One Days of Sport. • CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 20.— The Bainbridge Breeders and Racing Association will open its meeting at Geauga Lake tomorrow and run for thirty-one days, closing June 25, Horses in numbers that have taxed stable space have been shipped to Bainbridge Park from Aurora, Churchill Downs, lavenna and from some of the Maryland and New York tracks, and racing secretary Reoder gives it as his opinion that there are more of a good average grade to be counted on for this meeting than for any previous one. The opening day card will be featured by the running of the Bainbridge Inaugural Handicap, worth ,500 added. This is a sprint of three-quarters of a mile which will be contested by such horses as Silver Cord, Birthday Gift, John F, Penchant, Madwind, Nyrck and Honey Locust, the field numbering ten altogether. Silver Cord, Birthday Gift and Madwind were shipped to Geauga Lake recently from Kentucky; Penchant came from Maryland, where she made only one start this year; John F. from Maryland, where he was a factor in high class company, and Nyack arrived late this week from Aurora. INTERESTED IN MADWIND. Considerable interest will be taken in the showing today of Madwind, a three-year-old colt, whose Bainbridge objective is the Ohio State Derby. He carries the colors of the Le Mar Stock Farm Stable and finished in the money in his only race this year. Although he won only one race as a juvenile last year, in Maryland and on the Illinois tracks, he was seldom unplaced and, it is said, the stable expects him to develop into a valuable colt. Indications point to good weather and a fast track for the opening. The course is in splendid condition, as evidenced by good time made in some of the morning workouts. Two of the Inaugural Handicap eligibles were on the track this morning, John F. going three-eighths in :36%, finishing in a drive, and Silver Cord breezing half a mile in :54. Considerable work has been done on the plant in the last two months, several thousand dollars having been spent in beautifying the grounds. The association met with much encouragement in the course of the last meeting conducted at Bainbridge late last summer and have ample assurance that the return of the sport will be well supported by Cleveland and surrounding terrir tory. Bainbridge Park is the home of the "daily double" in the United States, having been given a trial here before other tracks took it up last year. It will again be an attraction.
