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TAKE AURORA ENTRIES Fox Valley Inaugural Handicap Closing Regular Entries Tomorrow. Fifteen Starters Expected in Saturdays Headliner if Fast Footing Prevails Test Camera. AURORA, 111., April 28 Names will be dropped into the entry box Thursday for the first feature of the Chicago racing season. The attraction, the Fox Valley Inaugural Handicap, headlines the opening of Auroras nineteen-day meeting, a session which is to close Saturday, May 22, with the sixth running of the 2,000 Illinois Derby. Opening day, Saturday, is expected to attract a record crowd as the thoroughbreds return to Chicago. Racing secretary Dick Leigh predicted the largest entry of the entire meeting for the inaugural, which is to be run at six furlongs, for three-year-olds and upward, with a prize of ,500. A fast track, as indicated, would bring out a field of better than fifteen thoroughbreds and so wide-open is the race that no horse "has emerged a well-backed choice. TRACK CUSHIONED. While Anroras track has been cushioned by the addition of many tons of red sand, it Is considered faster than a year ago, and certain track marks are regarded as sure to fall during the nineteen-day meeting. The figure theyll be shooting at in the Inaugural is a good one, 1:11 for the six furlongs set by Zekiel three years ago. Only entries for the feature close Thursday, with Mr. Leigh announcing the weights Friday, when entries close for the rest of the eight-race card. The Inaugural is to be run as the fifth event. The secondary feature is the Rockford Purse, at five and one-half, .furlongs. The field that will line up before starter Continued on twenty-sixth page. TAKE AURORA ENTRIES Continued from first page. Johnny Morrissey in the Inaugural is expected to be made up from the following good ones: Black River, Woodlander, Corum, Porccllus, Miss Ginbar, Marcabala, Salaam, Silverette, Bon Centime, Zevson, Biography, Biff, Reelon, Boston Sound, Play Pal, Colonel Ed, Mr. Joe and Fire Advance. PLENTY HORSES AVAILABLE. Racing secretary Leigh anticipates no trouble at any time in filling the eight races daily, for the 25,000 to be distributed to horsemen during the meeting has filled the 1,001 stalls to capacity, and late comers without reservations have had to be turned away. Not only is Thursday to be a busy one at the racing secretarys office, but the official camera tests for the Illinois Racing Commission were scheduled for 3 p. m. and the first roll call for mutuel clerks an hour earlier. . Steward Christopher J. FitzGerald, who will represent the state commission in the stand, along with T. C. Bradley and J. T. Ireland, arrived in Chicago earlier in the week from Keeneland and reported his health much improved. Both Mr. FitzGerald and George Foster, secretary of the commission, have been busy at the track this week licensing horsemen.
