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ATTRACTIVE FEATURES Two Valuable Stakes for Arlingtons Fourth of July Week-End. Matron Handicap, ,000 Added, for Saturday 0,000 Stars and Stripes Handicap Monday. ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, HI., June 29. Two attractive stake features, the revival of the ,000 added Matron Handicap Saturday and the ninth running of the 510,000 added Stars and Stripes Handicap Monday, will be the highlights of the two big racing days for which Arlington Park Jockey Club officials are now preparing. Handicapper Charles J. McLennan today announced the weights for the Stars and Stripes, which is for three-year-olds and over at a mile and a quarter. Count Morse, older star of Warren Wrights Calumet Fai-m stable, has been assigned top weight in the Stars and Stripes under 126 pounds. Shouldering the same steadying impost, this good son of Reigh Count finished third to Fraidy Cat and Orientalist over a sloppy track in the seven furlongs Inaugural Handicap here Monday. Hal Price Headleys Whopper, a Detroit stake winner which arrived at Arlington earlier in the week, has been allotted 124 pounds in Mondays feature. Then follows Wrights Sun Teddy and Mrs. Emil Dene-marks Finance, both under 120 pounds. Forty-six were nominated for the Stars and Stripes and it is likely that at least twelve will start. If such is the field the stake will gross 3,320 and will net the winner ,600. COLORFUL HISTORY. The Stars and Stripes has a colorful history. Its first running in 1929 was won by Dowagiac and its next by the E. R. Bradley horse, Blue Larkspur. Curiously, in both 1929 and 1930 Misstep finished second and Sun Beau third, the latter going on to be-Gome the largest money winner in the world. The rugged Plucky Play scored a surprise victory over Mike Hall in the 1931 renewal. Equipoise, which holds the worlds mile record, established at Arlington Park, won the 1932 renewal, and the western star, Indian Runner, scored both in 1933 and 1934. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilts Discovery was the Stars and Stripes hero in 1935, and last year, attended by great fanfare, again invaded the West to try for a double. However, the son of Display failed in his "quest when he finished far out of the money back of the Canadian-owned Stand Pat, a long shot. The time record for the Stars and Stripes was established when Blue Larkspur set the present mile and a furlong track record of 1:497s in 1930. Weights for the ,000 Matron Handicap, for fillies and mares three years old and over, were released by handicapper McLennan yesterday, with Hal Price Headleys Sparta getting the top weight assignment of 126 pounds in the nomination list of thirty-seven. FINE CARD SATURDAY. An attractive eight-race program is being arranged for Saturday. With the revival after a five-year lapse of the Matron Handicap taking the position of honor, the supporting features will include the ,500 Joliet Purse, . a mile test for three-year-olds, and the ,200 Creston Handicap, for three-year-olds and over at seven furlongs. Entries for the Creston will close Thursday. Preparations are being made to handle large holiday crowds on both Saturday and Monday. Out-of-town reservations for boxes have been streaming from patrons planning to round out the "racing week-end." Special trains will be run to the track on both days to augment the regular schedule of race trains. The weights for the Stars and Stripes Handicap follow: Horse. Wt. Horse. Wt. Count Morse 126 Bright Light 105 Whopper 124 Dellor 105 Sun Teddy 120 Isolater 105 Finance 120 Spanish Babe.... 104 Infantry 116 Tearout 104 New Deal 115 Bootless 103 Preeminent 115 Chance Ray 103 Mucho Gusto 114 Threadneedle ...103 Sir Emerson 114 Gyral 102 Memory Book... 113 Our Reigh 102 Count Arthur. . . .110 Fencing 102 Corinto 109 Petrose 102 Eagle Pass 108 Army and Navy. 101 Burning Star 108 Beaver Dam 101 Privileged 108 Navanod 101 Plight 10S Merrymood 100 Grand Manitou.,108 Riparian 100 Sceneshifter 107 Must Be 100 Rushaway 106 Salaam 100 Giant Killer 106 Josh 99 Sir Jim James... 105 Fore 98 Unfailing 105 Prince Torch.... 98 War Emblem 105 Siam 98
