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GOOD HOLIDAY OFFERING Labor Day Handicap Principal Race of Mondays Program at Lincoln Fields. CRETE, 111., Sept. 3. A fast field, including the winners of a number of important stakes and handicaps, will clash at one mile in the ,500 Labor Day Handicap, principal race on Mondays card of eight events at iUje local Lincoln Fields course. Those named for contest the holiday feature are the Reichert Brothers My Dandy, William E. Schmidts Charleigh, Norman W. Churchs Gallant Sir, Nash Brothers Evergold, Thomas D. Taggarts Playdale, R. M. Eastmans Cathop and M. Goldblatts Jimmy Moran, and a meeting of these accomplished performers means a remarkable contest under any conditions. Charleigh and My Dandy will have up the maximum imposts of 122 pounds each, with the younger Gallant Sir packing 109 pounds and Jimmy Moran 107 pounds. The greatly improved Playdale will try for honors in this fashionable company burdened with 105 pounds and Evergold and Cathop were admitted with 102 pounds each. Gallant Sir, Charleigh and Playdale liave been going great guns of late and if they continue to show such remarkable form and Evergold, My Dandy and the others acquit themselves as they consistently do, its "anybodys race," if there ever was one. In addition to the Labor Day Handicap, the program includes the Toilers Purse, in which Waylayer, Dr. Freeland, Pancho Lopez, Brown Wisdom, Sundot and Kibitzer will clash at three-quarters of a mile, and the Kensington Claiming Purse, which will test a fast field of top-flight platers at the same distance. Other races will engage large, well matched fields at distances from three-quarters to a mile and one-eighth, and the holiday offering has the marks of one of the seasons treats for Chicago racing enthusiasts. The track management has arranged to handle a near-capacity crowd, with special accommodations at the course and fast special transportation service. There will be no increase in admission charges for the day, the newly adopted gate admission fee being in vogue. Post time for the first race will be 2 oclock. The Labor Day Handicap field, with post positions, weights and jockeys, follows: PP. Horse. Wt. Jockey. 1 Evergold 102 T. P. Martin 2 Gallant Sir 109 G. Woolf 3 Playdale 105 M. Lewis 4 Charleigh 112 H. W. Fisher 5 My Dandy 112 J. Leyland 6 Cathop 102 No boy 7 Jimmy Moran 107 G. Elston
