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NARRAGANSETT STAKES CLOSE Seven Rich Races on Program for Pawtuckets Spring Meeting. Entries Received From All Sections of the Country Sprint Race Feature of Inaugural. PAWTUCKET, R. I., April 19. The stakes for Narragansett Parks spring meeting closed Thursday of this week, and as usual, last-minute nominations flooded the racing secretarys office. Seven important stakes are spread throughout the nineteen days scheduled and of nominations already to hand, representations are especially strong from the Southwest Kentucky, Maryland, and New York. Featuring opening day Is the Narragansett Handicap, a sprint affair for three-year-olds and over, with ,500 added. The Jeanne DArc Stakes, a four and one-half furlongs event,-with ,500 added, set for Wednesday, May 5, gives New Englanders their first view of the best juvenile fillies of the seasdh so far. The King Philip Handicap, set for Saturday, May 8, with ,000 added, will see the best three-year-olds and upward racing over the popular one mile and a sixteenth route. Three-year-olds will hold the spotlight on Wednesday, May 12, when they travel one mile and a sixteenth in the Providence Handicap, for ,500 added. The Governors Handicap, a ,000 stake, to be run Saturday, May 15, over the gruelling mile and an eighth route, has always attracted a select band of handicappers. Three-year-old fillies get their biggest test of the Spring season Wednesday, May 19, in the Betsy Williams, ,000 added, when they are sent over the one mile and seventy yards route. The best juveniles of the New England section will troop postward Saturday, May 22, in the ,000 Old Colony, an allowance affair with the distance stretched out to five furlongs for the first stamina test of the year.
