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CHICAGOS LAST FEATURI Marquette Handicap Final Stake Offering of Major Season Ninth Renewal of Prize. CRETE, III., Oct 7. The twenty-fifth ana last-stake of the Chicago racing season, the ,500 added Marquette Handicap, will be run at Lincoln Fields Saturday, and after that major racing in the state -will depart until May 1, 1937, Three weeks of racing at the half mile. Sportsmans Park track remain, but Lincoln Fields brings to a close the long season at the larger tracks. Saturdays running will be the ninth in -the history of the Marquette Handicap, which is the longest stake offered at the meeting, over a mile and an eighth route. Many of the best horses of the decade have competed in the Marquette, which had its inaugural running back in 1926 when Helens Babe led home Captain Hal, Supremus and others. The next year it was won by Rother-mel with Chicago second. Gaffsman won the 1928 race, beating among others, Toro, and Chicago, and winning 514,160. Golden Prince beat Karl Eitel and Montanaro in 1929 and Lady Broadcast turned back Pigeon Hole and Pansy Walker in 1930. Both Golden Prince , and Lady Broadcast raced the mile and a furlong in 1:50, and this still remains th track record for that distance. In 1931 it was Kincsen, Dark Sea and My Dandy. The Marquette was not run in 1932, but in 1933, At Top conquered Lat Date and Glynson. Another off year, and last summers renewal went to the Central American horse, Golden Rock II., with Tor Dog and Banish Fear next in order. Banish Fear is a candidate for this years race hoping to duplicate the feat of Chicago, bv being in the money in two different runnings. Billbo, by his mile in 1:35 on Tuesday, emerged as a possible favorite for the ninth running. The race has been regarded as the most wide open stake of the season and prospects are that a dozen or so of the thirty-two nominees will decide to try to get it all. -
