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LARGE AND CLASSY FIELD Sixteen or More Two-Year-Olds to Contest in 0,000 Added Hawthorne Juvenile Handicap. CICERO, 111., Aug. 18. In all probability a field of sixteen or more thoroughbreds will be named through the entry box Friday morning to compete in the Hawthorne Juvenile Handicap, which will have its third renewal Saturday. It will be an evenly balanced band that will try for the 0,000 added prize as the majority of the youngsters entered appear to be about of equal calibre. The race gives promise of being one of the outstanding two-year-olds events of the year and will go far in determining the youngsters that will be candidates for the Derbys of next season. Some speedy trials for the stake are being turned in each morning, and In High, which with. Pre War will carry the Dixiana colors, was one that performed well Thursday mornr ing. That good unsexed son of High Time asked for speed reeled off five-eighths in 1:02, going the quarter in :22 and the half in :48. Knights Gal, from the Audley Farm Stable, went the same distance handily in 1:03, while Benny Creechs Timorous covered three-eighths in :38. Hope to Do, speedy youngster which will carry Admiral Cary T. Graysons colors, went five-eighths in 1:01 accompanied by Band Wagon. Projectile, which Adolph Pons leased from Walter J. Salmon during the Arlington meeting, turned in five furlongs in 1:01 for the best work of the morning, while Spicson, owned by L. M. Severson, went six furlongs in 1:15. The Rob Roy Purse, which will be the secondary feature Saturday, will have added interest, as Hygro, winner of the Hawthorne Juvenile Handicap of last season, will be among the starters. It will be the first start of the year for Hygro, which was one of the outstanding two-year-olds of 1931.
