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: 6 FOREMOST RACING STABLES To Be Represented During 31 -Day Meeting at Lincoln Fields. Quality of Thoroughbreds Available Assures Highest Class of Sport Innovation for "Daily Double." With everything in readiness for the opening of Lincoln Fields Saturday, officials of the Lincoln Fields Jockey Club Wednesday perused the stable lists and assured themselves that for quality the racing material obtained for the thirty-one day meeting compares with the best assembled for any one meeting anywhere this year. Some of the more prominent owners whose colors will fly in contests over the Crete course during the meeting include Col. E. R. Bradley, Mrs. Emil Denemark, P. A. Nash, R. J. Nash, Charles T. Fisher, S. Peabody, Mrs. Payne Whitney, J. W. Parrish, Wood F. Axton, C. V. Whitney, Albert Sabath, John Marsch, Polk Laffoon, Henry C. Yeiser, Jr., J. B. Respess, W. H. Whitehouse, T. C. Worden, Bernard B. Jones, Knebelkamp and Morris, J. O. Keene, W. F. Knebelkamp, Edward Haughton, F. M. Grabner, J. E. Hughes, W. W. "Vaughn and many others. Mrs. Whitneys Greentree Stable, in charge of J. S. Middleton, is shipping into Lincoln Fields from Dade Park and stalls for the near score that will represent this outstanding turf patroness await the regally-bred thoroughbreds they will harbor during the next five to six weeks. This is the largest individual shipment from Dade Park, according to figures given out Wednesday by Lincoln Fields officials. The large stables owned by Colonel Brad:-ley, Nash Brothers, Mrs. Denemark, Knebelkamp and Morris, Grabner, Hughes, Pea-body, Marsch, Fisher and others campaigned through the Hawthorne meeting will be transferred to Lincoln Fields in time for Saturdays inaugural. Approximately eight hundred horses go from Hawthorne to Lincoln Fields with a scattering of smaller establishments moving on to the same racing grounds from Sportsmans Park and a few quartering at Washington Park during the duration of the Crete track meet. Almost without exception the more accomplished jockeys riding at Hawthorne and Dade Park will accept mounts at Lincoln Fields. Included among them will be such old favorites as J. Smith, G. Woolf, J. Ley-land, M. Rose, R. Finnerty, J. McCoy, H. Continued on twenty-first page. FOREMOST RACING STABLES Continued from first page. Fisher, C. E. Allen and others along with the younger stars, M. Lewis, C. King, W. Todd, W. Saunders, M. Calvert, H. L. Fisher, T. Shannon, W. Chidgey, J. Lane, E. Neal and J. Neel, among others. William H. Shelley, racing secretary, arrived from Louisville Wednesday ar.d soon had every preparation for the openinj cZ his office Thursday morning arranged. Entries for Saturdays program will be accepted at Hawthorne, Washington Park and Lincoln Fields and release of the card will be from Lincoln Fields at the usual hour. Winning tickets in the "daily double" the combination betting feature to be introduced to patrons of Chicagos major tracks during the meeeting, will be cashed by special cashiers for that purpose, according to announcement by general uanager C. Bruce Head. At some tracks clerks who sell "doubles" tickets also cash the winning pasteboards, but manager Head believes special cashiers will prove a convenience to patrons, hence his innovation for redeeming winning tickets. Doubles tickets will sell at two dollars each and the second and third races will be used. Col. M. J. Winn, executive director, has received numerous expressions approving the new admission and t -.sportation rates going into effect Saturday. This will mark the first meeting with the popular one dollar admission and the first with round-trip rail transportation over the C. and E. I. at seventy-five cents per person.
