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READY FOR LINCOLN FIELDS MEETING All Preparations Completed for Inaugural Next Saturday T. C. Bradley to Succeed Martin Nathanson as Associate Steward Great Array of Horses Available With almost every detail of the elaborate preparations for the meeting attended to, officials of the Lincoln Fields Jockey Club will mark time, more or less, during the" remaining few days before the opening of the thirty-one day meeting Saturday. Col. M. J. Winn, executive director of the Lincoln Fields Jockey Club, Tuesday, went over the entire course, carefully inspecting improvements, and all parts of the plant. Following the inspection Colonel Winn said that he failed to find even a small detail in other than excellent and satisfactory condition. With the plant and track in complete readiness for the season, only the gathering of the great colony of horses to participate in the racing, 5 will provide the activity at the course during the several days before the opening. Right now one hundred horses are quartered at Lincoln Fields and, with the migration of stables from Hawthorne to the Crete track scheduled to get under way Wednesday, the stables will be filling up rapidly during the remainder of the week. Additional arrivals from Dade Park and other Kentucky points are due in Friday and Saturday and by Sunday track superintendent Thomas Young anticipates an overflow of racing stock into the Washington Park track at Homewood. A dozen more requests for stalls was received Tuesday by the track management and all were accommodated at Washington Park. Charles F. Price, steward in charge of the racing made an important announcement Tuesday in the appointment of Thomas Clark Bradley of Lexington as successor to Martin Nathanson, whose resignation as associate steward was announced Monday. Mr. Bradley, now at Dade Park, wher.e he is in complete charge of the racing, will take up his duties at Lincoln Fields about Wednesday of next week. Mr. Bradley has served at both Lincoln Fields and Hawthorne, but for the past two years remained in Kentucky for all of the blue grass meetings. Racing secretary William H. Shelley, who is arriving Wednesday and will open his office at the track the following morning, anticipates unusually attractive programs for both opening day and Labor Day. The first day card will feature the mile Olympian Fields Purse and the three-quarters Crete Purse, both for three-year-olds and over. The ,500 Labor Day Handicap will test at one mile all the best handicap performers in the West and the probable starters in this holiday feature now number fourteen. Entries for this race will close Friday with weights and declarations Saturday morning. General manager Bruce Head announced that post time daily during the meeting with the single exception of Labor Day will be 2:15 oclock. On Labor Day the racing will get under way at 2 oclock. Throughout the meeting all races will be run just as speedily as possible with the eight-race cards concluding in time for patrons to reach the "loop" a few minutes after 6 oclock. The dollar admission fee will prevail on all days. .
