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ALL TRACKS OFFERING DECORATION DAY FEATURES 1 Crack Band of Twelve in ,000 Handicap at Hawthorne Historic Suburban Belmonts Prize Eleven Named for ,000 Alger Memorial, With Twelve Eligible for Quickstep Handicap at Latonia Twelve race tracks will provide holiday programs, several of unusual brilliance, for the immense crowds attending the races on Decoration Day in the United States and Canada. The famous Suburban Handicap is the outstanding event of the day and is sure to attract a tremendous crowd to palatial Belmont Park. Here in Chicago popular Hawthorne will be the scene of a colorful and capacity gathering, while at Detroit, Latonia, Pcockingham Park, Woodbine, Omaha and Kansas City, the accommodations of those respective plants are sure to be taxed to the limit. With a crack field ready to compete in the ,000 added Decoration Day Handicap and seven other events promising more than ordinary sport, the holiday program to be presented by the Chicago Business Mens Racing Association at Hawthorne today may be witnessed by one of the largest crowds ever on the grounds of that association. There has been a complete sell-out of reserved boxes and seats, and with sunny weather and excellent racing conditions in prospect for the occasion, the day is expected to take rank with the biggest of the season in this area. Twelve horses, representing ten owners and including the stars of a number of the leading western and visiting stables, accepted weights for the Decoration Day Handicap, and the contest at one mile and one-sixteenth is likely to prove one of the best of the entire meeting. Heading the field for the race are such luminaries of the handicap division as T. C. Wordens greatly-improved Billy Jones, Continued on thirty-eighth page. ALL TRACKS OFFERING DECORATION DAY FEATURES Continued from first page. W. F. Flanigans Chanceview, Mrs. Emil Denemarks Corinto and Mrs. Ethel V. Mars Whiskolo. Still others prominently known for their turf accomplishments in the overnight field are Chasar, also owned by Mrs. Denemark, Nash Brothers Bright Light and Official, E. K. Brysons Carvola, Mrs. F. M. Grabners Spanish Babe and J. E. Hughes Silent Shot. Mrs. K. N. Gilpins Buck Langhorne and C. E. Davisons Salaam complete the field. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 29. The combination of Memorial Day and one of the best all around programs to be offered in America this season should attract a mighty throng to Belmont Park tomorrow afternoon, when the sport will center around revivals of such time honored events as the Suburban Handicap, Juvenile Stakes and Corinthian Steeplechase Handicap. Good sized and smart fields have been named for these features as well as the quartet of supporting events. With a purse of 0,000 added by the Westchester Racing Association and including among its dozen candidates two prospects for the Belmont Stakes, the Suburban naturally holds the center of interest but the Juvenile is noteworthy because of the first eastern appearance of the sensational and unbeaten Airflame. At a mile and one-quarter and possessing a gross value of 6,000 - with all starting, the Suburban will have 2,225 for its winner, which may be either William Woodwards Granville or Charles B. Shaffers Coldstream, which are being pointed for the Belmont Stakes or one of the capable other horses, headed in the handicap by Hal Price Headleys gigantic Whopper at 119 pounds. Handicapper John B. Campbell holds the two three-year-olds in higher esteem, however, as Granville is asked to shoulder scale weight of 108 pounds and Coldstream two pounds less. The identity of the favorite is problematical, although that honor is generally exr pected to fall to Granville because of his splendid performance against Bold Venture in the Preakness. Alfred Gwynne Vander-bilts trio, composed of the Metropolitan Handicap winner, Good Harvest; the speedy Identify and plodding Gallant Mac, is certain to command strong support as will Brookmeade Stables Good Goods, victorious in the Governors Handicap at Narragansett Park, and Whopper, second in the Metropolitan but successful in the San Juan Capistrano Handicap at Santa Anita. Two stakes winners are among the dozen overnight candidates for the Juvenile Stakes, a dash of five furlongs over the straight course, which is endowed with ,500, with all accepting the issue the dash will have a gross value of ,630, of which the winners net share will be ,650. LATONIA, Ky., May 29. Twelve sprinters were named in the overnight entries for the twenty-third running of the ,000 added Quickstep Handicap, six furlongs dash which will headline the Decoration Day program here Saturday afternoon. W. E. Smiths Likewise, winner of his only two starts at the Latonia course thus far, looms up as the choice over the eleven other speedy performers. In scoring hia two victories the five-year-old son of Wise Counsellor Miss Moonlight indicated" that he is on edge for his supreme effort in the rich stake. Brownell Combs speed sensation of last year, Myrtlewood, is included among the probable starters in the stake. The four-year-old daughter of Blue Larkspur Frizeur is expected to display some improvement over- her previous race, she having raced as if a bit short. Myrtlewood is a former world record holder for six furlongs, and it is recalled that the filly engaged Clang in match races at Coney Island and Hawthorne, with honors equally divided. Ike Weils Slim Rosie and the Old Gold Stables Transmutable arrived this morning from Hawthorne to fulfill their engagements in the Quickstep, one of the most prominent of the,stake fixtures at the historic Latonia course. Transmutable finished second to Chanceview in his last important engagement at Hawthorne and gave an excellent account of himself on that occasion. The four-year-old brown gelding is regarded as being in tip-top shape by trainer Otto Bag-ley, who made the trip from Chicago with the racer. Indications are that the entire field named overnight will start Saturday over the six furlongs, thus making it an open race. It is expected that Likewise will rule a slight choice over Transmutable, Myrtlewood and the others. DETROIT, Mich., May 29. Stand Pat, E. F. Seagrams star, which turned back a fast field in the Wolverine Handicap, will attempt to win his second, the Colonel Alger Handicap, tomorrow afternoon. He will be opposed by Fred M. Alger, Jr.s Azucar, the Long Run Stables Marynell and eight others and. will carry the top burden of 125 pounds. It will be the most exacting task ever asked of the Canadian-owned three-year-old. Azucar, which gave him three pounds in the Wolverine Handicap, will receive three pounds from him, and Marynells package is the same she carried last Saturday. The ,000 added stake will be the sixth race of a brilliant eight-race card, and in the event of fair weather a crowd surpassing the 18,000 present for the opening is expected to view the Memorial Day program. Stand Pat, which has always shown a preference for the local track and the mile and a sixteenth distance, experienced little trouble in defeating Marynell, Woodlander and others in the Wolverine. However, he will be picking up six pounds, while Azucara weight remains the same. Azucar was the trailer throughout the running of the Wolverine, but Thursday he turned in an excellent work and he probably will show a better effort tomorrow. Woodlander, which carried 110 pounds in the Wolverine, and Tugboat Frank, a Detroit Derby eligible, will carry 105 pounds each. Polar Flight, a stablemate of Azucar, will tote 103 pounds and Bereit is the low weight of the field under ninety pounds.
