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FINALE AT SPORTSMANS Attractive Program for Final Day of Illinois Season. Chicago Handicap and Endurance Test Headline Card at Popular Cicero Half-Miler. The Chicago Handicap, at a mile and a sixteenth, and the Endurance Test, at the marathon distance of two miles and a furlong, top a program of eight races, six of which will be decided at routes of more than a mile, which will be offered Saturday at Sportsmans Park. The card, the most attractive that racing secretary Robert S. Shelley has yet assembled for the popular west side course, marks the end of the eighteen-day local meeting, and also the close of racing in Illinois for the year. Sportsmans Park has enjoyed one of the most successful seasons in its existence, and if the weather is no worse than has prevailed most of the meeting, the National Jockey Club expects a throng in excess of 10,000 persons at its sportive little course tomorrow. Only the first two races on tomorrows offering arc at shorter distances than a mile, and they will be contested over seven furlongs. Then follow a series of contests destined to whet the appetites of the most fastidious race fanciers. As one observer put it, "The horses will be under the noses of the spectators all afternoon." SEVEN CERTAIN STARTERS. The Chicago Handicap, which carries a ,200 purse, drew seven entries overnight, and, regardless of track conditions, all of them are expected to face the barrier. Among those named for the race are such capable performers as C. E. Davisons Nava-nod, A. A. Youngs Countess Ann, the Blue Ridge Farms Cardarrone, and O. H. Reed s High Diver. Navanod drew top weight, 114 pounds, and is expected to rule the favorite. Next in the weight assignments comes Cardarrone, with 112, while Countes3 Ann must carry 110. The Endurance Test, to be presented as the sixth race, drew fifteen entries, twelve of which will be permitted to start This race has a purse of ,080, and owners of the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth horses to finish will share in its division. Horses in this race will pass the grandstand no less than five times, assuming, of course, that all of them finish. The field for the Chicago Handicap r follows: PP. Horse. vt. Prob. Jockey. jl-Jinnee 98 R. McClellan 2-Cardarrone 112 T.P.Martin 3 Countess Ann 110 M Terry 4 Navanod 114 in. Hauer 5 Lisa Belle 96 D. Schunk C High Diver 100 S. Vail 7 Coidwater 100
