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DELAWARE STAKES ATTRACT Horsemen Liberal With Nominations for Thirteen Headliners. Money Prizes to Be Distributed During Coming Session Have Total of Aprroxl-mately 50,000. WTCLMINGTON, Del., April 27. That the twenty-eight days of racing the Delaware Steeplechase and Race Association will put on at Delaware Park beginning June 8 will have the co-operation of the countrys most representative horsefolk is indicated by the nominations received by secretary-treasurer John P. Bowditch for the thirteen stakes that closed April 18. These stakes, eight of which had their inaugurals last summer, the others, including three steeplechases, being new, will have an aggregate value in added money of 5,500. Altogether, there will be about 50,000 for the horses. There will be ,000 purses every day. Not all the sources from which nominations will come, of course, have been heard from. INITIAL FEATURE. The Wilmington Handicap, a dash of six furlongs for three-year-olds and over, which has been picked by the executive committee for the first days feature, has drawn twenty-eight; the Brandywine, twenty-one; Dover, eighty-two; Newcastle, thirty-six; Georgetown, forty; Diamond State, thirty-eight; Polly Drummond, seventy-three; Kent Handicap, forty-eight; Indian River, thirty-seven; Delaware Oaks, forty-six; Christiana, seventy-five; Vicmead, eighteen; Sussex Handicap, twenty-seven. The Georgetown, at two I miles, Indian River, two miles and a half, and the Vicmead, three miles, are the three steeplechase stakes. The directors are very much gratified at the way they have filled. Delaware will see first class steeplechasing this summer for the first time. Women nominators are Mrs. W. Plunkett Stewart, Mrs. R. H. Heighe, Mrs. E. Friendly, Mrs. Walter M. Jeffords, Mrs. Marion du Pont Scott, Mrs. Helen Hay Whitney, Mrs. Ambrose Clark, Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin, Mrs. Henry C. Phipps, Mrs. Valentine Crane, Mrs. A. B. MacNeill, Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane, Mrs. E. G. Lewis, Mrs. Louise Viau, Mrs. W. S. Kilmer and Mrs. Arthur White. MASCULINE CONTRD3UTORS. Some of the masculine contributors are Col. Maxwell Howard, of Ohio; William Woodward, chairman of The Jockey Club; C. J. FitzGerald, Kenneth Gilpin, Donald Ross, William du Pont, Clay Sutphin, William F. Hitt, Robert Livingston Gerry, A. E. Pierce, John Sanford, Mahlon Kline, R. B. Young, Gould Shaw, W. J. Strawbridge, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, John Hay Whitney, Charles W. Baker, E. B. Benjamin, W. M. Jeffords, Samuel D. Riddle, Edward Riley Bradley, Maxwell Howard, Howard Bruce, H. S. Horkheimer, Robert J. Walden, W. L. Brann, Alvin Untermyer, Myron Selz-nick George D. Widener, Ogden Phipps, Val Crane, J. W. Y. Martin, William Ziegler, Marshall Field, W. S. Kilmer, Hugh Fontaine, James Cox Brady, Raymond Guest, A. S. Hewitt, Joseph M. Roebling, Hal Price Headley, Eugene Fizer, Raymond Wolfe, Thomas Hitchcock and Louis Stoddard.
