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GOLD CUP HEADS CICERO STAKE RACES Thirty Day Meeting Begins Monday at Chicagos Oldest Course Champion Equipoise to Make Last Appearance in West in Stake Headliner Chicago Derby Attracts Countrys Outstanding Three-Year-Olds CICERO, 111., July 29. Hawthorne, Chicagos oldest course, opens Monday for a season of thirty days, concluding with the racing of Saturday, September 2. The meeting, under the auspices of the Chicago Business Mens Racing Association, is one of the most important on the Chicago schedule and brings a number of outstanding features, the most notable of which are the 5,000 added Hawthorne Gold Cup and the revival of the Chicago Derby, which will carry 0,000 in added money. The Gold Cup, scheduled 9for renewal at one mile and a quarter on Thursday, August 24, will engage possibly for the last time in the West the great Equipoise and his company for this richest of Hawthorne races will come from among the best three-year-old and older horses that can be mustered out of the East and West. All the leading three-year-olds are assured for the Chicago Derby, which will be run on the closing day of the meeting, and over the same long route as the Gold Cup. Other less notable but valuable and important features programmed include the ,500 added Illinois Handicap, exclusively for horses three-year-olds and over, owned by residents of Illinois; the ,000 added John C. Schank Memorial, a new feature designed to perpetuate the memory of the late president of the Chicago Business Mens Racing Association; the ,000 added Hawthorne Handicap and the ,000 added Hawthorne Juvenile. The John C. Schank Memorial and Hawthorne Handicap also are for three-year-olds and over, while the juvenile is for two-year-olds. The Schank Memorial will be run on August 26, the Illinois on August 12, the Hawthorne on August 5, and the Juvenile on August 19. Following weeks of preparation, everything is in readiness for Mondays inaugural and the season will get under way with the spacious plant and grounds looking their best. Numerous improvements have been made since last year and the natural beauty of the grounds developed by landscape gardeners over the past several years compares with that of other of the Chicago tracks. Continued on twenty-second oage.J I GOLD CUP HEADS CICERO STAKE RACES Continued from first page. Busy scenes have been enacted at the local course for some days, the preparation of horses and moving in of scores upon scores of stables adding to the activity about the executive and departmental offices and lively maneuvers of corps of workmen who made the various improvements and completely renovated the clubhouse, grandstand and other buildings. With but few exceptions, the horses of all the leading western stables, along with the thoroughbreds from a number of fashionable eastern establishments, will provide the sport, which promises to measure up to the Hawthorne standard. Outstanding patrons -whose colors will be seen during the thirty days of racing include Col. E. R. Bradley, C. V. Whitney, Mrs. Payne Whitney, Charles T. Fisher, Patrick A. Nash, Richard J. Nash, Norman W. Church, Mrs. John D. Hertz, S. W. Labrot, Albert Sabath, M. L. Schwartz, Mrs. J. M. Austin, Mrs. Isabel D. Sloane, K. E. Hitt, W. S. Kilmer, H. P. Headley, Stuy-vesant Peabody, C. Leroy King, C. B. Shaffer, L. Rosenberg, D. A. Wood, J. Marsch, J. O. Keene, Cary T. Grayson, S. S. Combs, J. W. Parrish and many others. In addition to the regular features, many of which were first introduced at Hawthorne, several innovations in connection with the betting will be tried for the first time Monday. A combination ticket across the board, is among the innovations and it is expected to prove popular. The "Daily Double" also will be made on the second and third races and all betting will close two minutes before post time, thereby permitting the posting of accurate straight odds against all horses in a race before the race is started. Eight races will be run daily. Topping Mondays program are the Cascades Purse, for three-year-olds and over, to be run at six and one-half furlongs, and the Del Prado Purse, at one mile and one-sixteenth, also for three-year-olds and over performers. The latter attracted Marmion, Monel, Jim Dandy, Rocky News, Cambridgeshire and Big Red, while Karl Eitel, Band Wagon, Springsteel, Hyman, Princess Came-lia, Merrily On, Commuter and Bright Shadow comprise the flashy field for the Cascades. Post time for the first race will be 2:15 and the program will be run off as quickly as possible, the management desiring to complete other than stake and Saturday presentations in time for patrons to reach almost all parts of Chicago within a few minutes of 6 oclock.
