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MASSACHUSETTS HANDICAP j ! AT SUFFOLK DOWNS NOW j 0,000 ADDED 1 . . -. 4 BOSTON, Mass., April 6. The Massachusetts Handicap, principal event of the Suffolk Downs season, will have an added value of 0,000 instead of 5,000 this season, it was announced today by racing secretary H. D. Monroe, after he had conferred with president Charles F. Adams, treasurer Bruce Wetmore, and members of the tracks board of directors. The race for three-year-olds and upward at a mile and an eighth, will be decided on August 7, and is expected to draw the great-est handicap performers in America. This I years running will be the third. Top Row took the first running and earned a prize of 8,000. Last years renewal went to Time Supply, which won 3,500. Secretary Monroe announced that more than forty nominations have already been received, even though the increased value was not decided upon until today, and the press department has not begun Its campaign to publicize the race. Monroe predicts that the gross value of the race will run to 0,000, and that it will be the richest purse for the older division during the summer racing season.
