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LINCOLN . FIELDS THIRTY-ONE-DAY . MEETING Ot , AT A HAND GRAND RACING ASSURED Aristocrats of Western Turf to Meet Under Auspicious Conditions. Beauties of Crete Course Enhanced Daily Double, Reduced Rail. . way. Fare and Admission Fees. CRETE, HI., Sept. 2. Beginning tomorrow with a diversified, well-balanced program of eight races, and continuing through thirty-one golden late summer and autumn days, racing enthusiasts of Chicago and environs will find their favorite sport in fresh surroundings. This new site is the local Lincoln Fields course, one of the most enchanting, glorious and picturesque grounds for racing in all America. This glowing verbosity is without exaggeration, for Lincoln Fields is one of our finest racing grounds and for this new season, its splendor surpasses even the grandeur of the wide extending acres for other meetings. On the rich, black loam of the track streaking this expanse of natural and artificial beauty many of the leading thoroughbred horses of the country will clash in tests of speed and stamina and when on October 8 the curtain is rung down on the meeting, much should be added to the records of the season, a truly remarkable one in the Chicago area for this great sport under present conditions. EXCLUSIVE CLIENTELE. Annually since the course was opened In 1926, Lincoln Fields has enjoyed the patronage of a fine, almost exclusive clientele, including many of greater Chicagos most sub stantial and socially prominent. This season promises to prove no exception and the meeting opening tomorrow, for some time has been looked forward to with keen interest by the smarter, sportive set For opening day, numerous luncheon, club and box parties have been arranged and the usual refinement and color will be evidenced from the outset. Although no "early closing" stakes or hanr dicaps are on the program for the meeting, the five weeks of racing will not be devoid of the usual number of contests engaging the better horses. Their meetings will come about through late closing races with purses of ,500 and ,000 attached and under this innovation more frequent showings of the principal equines in all divisions is expected to result. Included among the 1,200 horses scheduled to participate in the racing are virtually all of the outstanding western performers and no few good ones are to be found in the eastern stables on hand for the meeting. FINE INAUGURAL CARD. For the entertainment of patrons tomorrow, the Lincoln Fields Jockey Club, under the executive directorship of Col. M. J. Winn, will present a program featuring the Olym-i pia Fields Claiming Purse at one mile and a sixteenth and the Blue Island and Crete Purses, each at three quarters and also under claiming conditions. For the principal race, such consistent winners as Bar Hunter, Pigeon Hole, Tela, Chokoloskee, Prose and Poetry and Habanero comprise the field, while many of the more successful sprinters of the second flight are among those named for the two sprints. Among the more important innovations to "be introduced is the "daily double," the popularity of which has swept the courses of Canada and many in this country. This combination betting feature will be sold on the second and third races and its adoption by Lincoln Fields, marks the first opportunity for patrons of the larger Chicago tracks to indulge in this mode of speculation. Tickets will be sold at two dollars each and those combining the winners of the second and third races will be cashed immediately after the result of the third race has been officially announced. The one dollar general admission, a fifty percent reduction from the former fee, will prevail and patrons ustng the C. and E. I. railroad specials from Chicago will, be carried to and from the track for seventy-five cents, a rate twenty-five percent lower than in any previous year. These savings are certain to increase the popularity of Lincoln Continued on eleventh page.. LINCOLN FIELDS OPENS TODAY Continued from first page. Fields and beginning with the first day, track officials anticipate a patronage equaling the largest in the record of the course. The racing strip was "lightning" fast today and with the clear, dry weather holding up the next twenty-four hours the seasons inaugural will be held under fine conditions.. For opening day, post time for the first race will be 2:15 oclock and the program of eight races will be run off in time to permit Chicago patrons to witness the entire card and return to the "loop" by a few minutes after six oclock. Those who do not care to remain for the final race, will find special trains leaving for Chicago shortly after the seventh race. Stuyvesant Peabody, president; C. Bruce Head, general manager, and executive director Winn are satisfied that the outlook is for a successful meeting. With many of the leading stables of the country here to furnish the racing and every indication that interest in the meeting is at the usual high level, the long season should be brought through to a successful conclusion.
