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I HAWTHORNE TURF NOTES : and Jockey H. W. Fisher is here to do much of the riding for the Brownell and L.. B. Combs stable, trained by Ray Kindred and headed by the Hawthorne Sprint Handicap eligible, Myrtlewood. Others in the stable, which came here from Latonia, are Grand Duke, Beauty Sleep, Spurlin, Woodberry, Big Mum and an unnamed juvenile gelding by Infinite Sweeping Glance. Jockeys F. Polk and S. Vail are leaving for Akron, where they will ride through the meeting opening Saturday. Polk reports to E. B. Shipp at the Ohio track. George W. Schilling, prominent western turf official, is here in the interests of the Washington Jockey Clubs Longacres meeting, starting on July 3. Schilling hopes to interest horsemen in the rich stakes to be run not only at that Seattle course, but also at Vancouver. Longacres will feature the 0,000 added Longacres Mile; the ,000 added Seattle Handicap, and ,000 added Washington Derby. Two ,000 events at Vancouver will not conflict with the principal Longacres stakes. The Longacres meeting will embrace fifty-one days. E. L. Fitzgerald, trainer of the N. W. Church stable, is transferring a small division of the stable from Arlington to Hawthorn Friday. It will include four head. Fitzgerald reports that due to a quarter crack the highly regaided Termination was not included among the Church horses shipped here from California. Termination received the injury in a recent workout. Whiskarita and Inscription, owned by W. B. Ray, and G. L. Wrights Al Bays arrived here from Detroit and were taken over by W. T. Freeman.
