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TWENTY-TWO NAMED FOR ARLINGTON INAUGURAL Ok A Annual Thirty-Day Meeting Battleground of Countrys Stars Beautiful Northwest Side Track in Spick and Span Order for Opening New Camera and Mutuel Odds Board Ready Races on Turf w. The field for the Arlington Inaugural Handicap, together with weights, jockeys, J owners and trainers, follows : Horse. Wt. Jockey. Owner. Trainer. tWhopper 12G W.Saunders H. P. Headley D. A. Headley fPreeminent 112 J. Mattioli H. P. Headley D. A. Headley Fighter 118 A. Robertson ... Milky Way Farm Stable R. McGarvey JWhiskolo 115 A. Robertson.. . Milky Way Farm Stable K. McGarvey !JThe NeIlie Flag 114 E.Arcaro Calumet Farm Stable B.B.Williams Pharosay 100 I.Anderson Calumet Farm Stable B.B.Williams Born Happy 100 J. Renick J. S. Riley J. Webber . Jimmie Cabaniss. . .100 J.S.Riley J.Webber Count Arthur. ..... .112 L. Balaski Mrs. J. D. Hertz Lon Johnson j Billy Bee 116 J.Bryson Bomar Stable R. E. Potts Toro Nancy 112 L. Balaski Northway Stable E. L. Fitzgerald ! Erin Torch 110 C.Stevenson Dixiana .:.C. Van Dusen j Billy Jones 115 L.IIaas ...T. C. Worden .B.A.Jones : Where Away 110 C.Corbett. A. Pelleteri . .A. Pelleteri Infidox 110 D. L. Ogle D.L.Ogle Visigoth 109 B.James Shady Brook Farm Stable G. Brooks Microbe 100 A. Shelhamer. . . A. C. Compton H. G. Bedwell Grand Duke 102 J. McCoy. . . B. Combs R. A. Kindred i Chief Cherokee 104 H. Albrecht Mrs. E. Denemark B. S. Michell Inscona 108 L. Handley O. J. Averitt J Cotton Club 105 E.De Camillas. .Valdina Farm Stable. ... . . .J. J. Flanigan ! Official 101 Shandon Farm Stable J. J. Greely j fH. P. Headley entry; JMilky Way Farm Stable entry; Calumet Farm Stable entry; J. Shirley Riley entry. j Note Post positions will be drawn at 9 a. m. Monday. i .... . . ..j ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, 111., June 27. Arlington Park, where racing probably smacks more of an intersectional flavor than any other track in America, opens its annual thirty-day meeting here Monday with the field for the Arlington Inaugural Handicap coming from among twenty-two overnight entries. Except for last-minute details, including a final check on the newly-installed motion picture camera to decide close finishes, the expansive and beautiful course is in complete readiness for the meeting to be featured by a program of seven stakes and distribution of approximately 00,000 to horsemen. The Inaugural Handicap, which is at seven furlongs, with ,500 added, will have its seventh running, and with 9 the score and two entered starting, which is hardly likely, the event would have a gross value of ,090, of which the winner would receive ,105. Starting at 2 :20 oclock with the "Daily Double" on the first and second races, the program will embrace eight events, with the Inaugural Handicap being offered in fifth position preceded and followed by the supporting features, each of which will be at one mile, the Barrington for older horses and the Arlington Heights for three-year-olds. The local course, one of the few in America offering races over the turf, has scheduled the seventh race Monday on the grass. WHOPPER DOUBTFUL. Heading the entries for the Inaugural, post positions for which will be drawn Monday morning at scratch time, is Hal Price Headleys Whopper at 126 pounds. The gigantic son of Pharamond II. is not expected to start, however, because of an engagement at Detroit today. With Whopper out of the field, the starting top weight will be The Fighter which, with Whiskolo, comprises the Milky Way Farms entry. This three-year-old has been assigned 118 pounds. Three pairs of entries were named for the feature in addition to the Milky Way team, Preeminent being coupled with Whopper, with Nellie Flag and Pharosay making up the Calumet Farm representation, and Born Happy and Jimmie Cabaniss comprising the J. S. Riley combination. Other prominent horses which may start in the seven furlongs sprint are Mrs. John Hertz Count Arthur, Bomar Stables Billy Bee, Norman Churchs Toro Nancy, Dixianas Erin Torch, D. L. Ogles Infidox and Thomas C. Wordens Billy Jones. Several of the Inaugural entries have been named for either the Barrington or Arlington Heights, Cotton Club and Count Arthur being in the former and Microbe and Infidox in the latter. Others in the Bar- Continued on third page. TWENTY-TWO NAMED FOR ARLINGTON INAUGURAL Continued from first page. rington Purse are Brown Feathers, West Main, Silversmith and Buck Langhorne, and the Arlington Heights has attracted such capable other three-year-olds as Dnieper, Doran, Wise Duke, Carvola and Bow and Arrow. With the exception of Wise Duke, members of the latter group contested the Chicago Derby a week ago, with Carvola finishing second to Hollyrood. Grand Duke also is in the third race. The track was in excellent condition today following the showers yesterday morning, and it will be at its best for the inaugural program as clear weather is predicted. The spacious lawns in the center field and pad-dock, as well as the shrubbery and the many flowers which further beautify the huge property, clearly showed the benefit of the rain and the plant will be a kaleidoscope of color Monday with a large crowd in attendance. Except for the three honorary stewards, who alternate in the stand, all of the officials are on hand for the meeting, the latest arrival being George Brown, Jr., a steward for the meeting who came from his Baltimore home. C. J. FitzGerald is the steward representing the Illinois racing commission, and the placing judges are Sidney S. Brown, C. A. Kenney, and C. J. FitzGerald, Jr., the latter doubling as clerk of the scales. Charles J. McLennan is the racing secretary and handicapper, with William Doyle and E. A. Hileman as paddock and patrol judges. William Davis also serves in the latter capacity. Roy Dickerson will dispatch the fields as he has done at Arlington for many years, and William Cunningham is the official timer. Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Arthur B. Hancock and Maj. Louie A. Beard are the honorary stewards, but whenever all are absent, Otto W. Lehmann, president of the Arlington Park Jockey Club and prominent Chicago sportsman, will serve in the stand. The first weeks racing also will be notable for the renewal of the Stars and Stripes Handicap, traditional Fourth of July feature. This mile and a furlong affair for a purse of 0,000 added is the first of six events of that value or more, with the exception of the ,000 added Hyde Park Stakes, which is scheduled for the second Saturday. On July 18 the Arlington Lassie Stakes, with 0,000 added, but with a probable gross value of 5,000, will bring together the best of the nations two-year-old fillies, and on July 25, the Classic, most famous of Arlington Parks attractions, will do what it can toward clarifying the three-year-old situation, bringing together Granville, Mr. Bones, Hollyrood and other leaders of the division. Closing the meeting on Saturday, August 1, will be a pair of features, the Arlington Handicap, with 0,000 added, and the Arlington Futurity, with 0,000 added but approaching a gross value of 0,000. This will mark the first time in the history of the local course that a program of such pretensions will be offered, and it is expected to maintain interest in the meeting at a high pitch through the final week after the climax has been reached with the running of the Classic. Vans from Hawthorne and railroad cars from Detroit, Latonia, New England and New York have been arriving daily all during the week loaded with horses which will participate in the racing here, and the opening of the meeting will find nearly all of the 1,400 stalls housing thoroughbreds. Brook-meade Stable and John Hay Whitneys eight horses are not expected until later next week and the Wheatley Stable-Belair Stud shipment from Aqeuduct will be along probably a week later. Other prominent owners whose colors will be shown during the coming five weeks at Arlington Park include the Araho Stable, Bomar Stable, E. K. Bryson, Calumet Farm, Brownell Combs, A. C. Compton, Mrs. Emil Denemark, Dixiana, Hal Price Headley, Mrs. John Hertz, Milky Way Farms, Anthony Pel-leteri, J. Shirley Riley, Rosedale Stable, Elwood Sachsenmaier, Shady Brook Farm, Elmer Dale Shaffer, Shandon Farm, Tranquillity Farm, Valdina Farm, Thomas C. Worden, F. M. Alger, Jr., Mrs. F. M. Grab-ner, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, John J. Coughlin, J. W. Parrish, Three Ds Stock Farm, C. V. Whitney, J. E. Wideher, John Marsch, E. R. Bradley, Mrs. A. M. Creech, Foxcatcher Farms, Willis Sharpe Kilmer, Norman W.. Church and King Ranch. Outstanding jockeys engaged to ride at Arlington Park include Wayne Wright, Johnny Gilbert, Lester Balaski, Ira Hanford, Charles Corbett, Eddie Arcaro, Alfred Robertson, Sammy Renick, Charles Stevenson, Johnny Bejshak, William Saunders, Earl Steffen, Leon Haas, Basil James, James McCoy, Nick Wall, Paul Keester. Joe Renick, John Nolan, Eddie De Camillas, Jimmy Stout, Raymond Workman, George Woolf, Michael Corona, Maurice Peters, Charles Kurtsinger and Harry Richards.
