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HAWTHORNE STAGE SET 1 Five Months of Local Racing Begins Saturday at West Side Track. • Crack Field of Fast Sprinters Assured for ,000 Added Inaugural Handicap. ! ♦ The stage set and everything indicating one of the brightest Chicago openings in several years. Hawthorne tilts the lid on major track racing in this area for the season with a sparkling program Saturday. While initiating a meeting of thirty-one days at the near west side course, Saturdays cavortings of the thoroughbred inaugurates more than five months of racing at local tracks, meetings at Arlington Park, Washington Park, Lincoln Fields and Sportsmans Park to follow Hawthorne. As the feature of its inaugural offering Hawthorne will present the Hawthorne Inaugural Handicap, endowed with ,000 in added money and the first of six stakes to be run during the thirty-one days. The first-day headliner is for horses of three years or older and drawing starters from among the fastest sprinters in the West. Its running over six furlongs may produce one of the fastest sprint contests ever staged there. Probable contestants include Mrs. Emil Denemarks Clark Handicap winner. Corin-to; H. C. Hatchs Ariel Cross, holder of the Churchill Downs three-quarters record of 1:10%; J. J. Flanigans Chanceview, a star of winter racing; T. C. Wordens Billy Jones, one of the most improved horses of the season, and such other speedsters as Old Gold Stables Transmutable, Milky Way Farms Whiskolo and Sangreal, C. A. Pecks West Main, W. Days Ding Bin, Tranquillity Farms Rock X., Shandon Farms Bright Light, Three Ds Stock Farms Money Getter, H. Bruces Jay Jay, I. Weils Slim Rosie, and Top Dog, also in the Denemark stable. The course record for the distance is 1:10%, a mark jointly held by Gibbons and Myrtlewood. SUPPORTING ATTRACTIONS. Two allowances races, the Stickney, for two-year-olds, and Paul Jones, for three-year-olds and over, and five other events will support the Hawthorne Inaugural. Starters in the Stickney will compare speed over five furlongs while the Paul Jones will have decision over one mile and one-sixteenth. Strong fields are indicated for both. On each of five succeeding Saturdays the Hawthorne management will offer purse inducements almost certain to entice not only the best horses present but the upper crust of various divisions racing in Kentucky, Michigan and the East. On the second Saturday, May 30, the ,000 added Decoration Day Handicap for three-year-olds and over with decision over one mile and one-sixteenth, will be the principal attraction. A week later the Hawthorne Juvenile Handicap for two-year-olds, and also endowed with ,000 in added money, will have feature billing. It will be contested at six furlongs. The Hawthorne Sprint Handicap, another for three-year-olds and over, but with the six and one-half furlongs distance prevailing, should find all the leading sprinters back in action for a ,000 purse. On June 20 the Chicago Derby with 5,000 added and the richest of the six stakes will be down for uecision. This race is included among the engagements of many of the countrys outstanding three-year-olds, and it will be run over the Kentucky Derby route of one mile and one-quarter. The ,000 added Illinois Owners Handicap, for three-year-olds and over, at nine furlongs, will head the program on June 27, closing day of the meeting. HORSES OF QUALITY. With many horses of high quality included in the stables awaiting the meeting, Hawthorne patrons will not have to depend on Saturday or stakes programs for opportunities to see the star performers as practically all of them will fill less important engagements during their five weeks stay at the west side course. As these secondary engagements naturally will not fall on Saturdays race goers may look forward to many Continued on ninth vaqt. HAWTHORNE STAGE SET Continued from first page. attractive programs between each of the stakes aays. All programs will embrace eight races, and the management hopes to offer four at distances of one mile and one-sixteenth or greater, daily. Programs for the first ten days include that number of route events with distances from one mile and one-sixteenth to one mile and one-quarter. Po3t time for the opening race will be 2:20 oclock daily, with wagering on the "Daily-Double," which will be based on the first and third races, closing five minutes before starting time for the first event. Following more than a months prepara-: tion the plant awaits Saturdays gathering | of fans in more attractive dress, more com-j plete and more up-to-the-minute in every] detail than ever before. A number of inno* 1 vations are ready for introduction.
