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CLASSIC PAYMENTS ARE DUE Second Fee for 1939 Renewal of Race Payable November 15. Officials Predicting Race Will Gross 0,000 Next Year and Possibly 0,000 in 1940. Converted into futurity conditions the Classic Stakes, the mid-wests premier race for three-year-olds, will call for second fees on the 1939 renewals November 15, Roy Car-ruthers, secretary of the Arlington Park Jockey Club, reminded horsemen here today. The 1939 and 1940 Classic renewals closed its original nominations on July 15, with lists that exceeded the fondest expectations of John Hertz and his Arlington associates. Moving towards the second payment date, the 1939 event has 152 and the 1940, 287 nominations. It is predicted that the Classic Stakes, which carries added moneys of 0,000, will gross 0,000 in 1939 and upwards of 0,000 in 1940. Until the 1939 renewal, nominations for the famous Classic were made in "the spring of the year of the running of the race. Under the new futurity conditions, candidates were named for the 1939 running as two-year-olds and for the 1940 event as yearlings. Second payment on 1939 will be 00, while second payments on the 1940 event do not fall due until September 15, 1939. Seventy-seven interests nominated the 152 eligibles for the 1939 Classic. Leading nominators are Warren Wrights Calumet Farm with nine, John Hay Whitney and Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt with seven each and the Greentree Stable with six, William Woodward and the Brookmeade Stable with five. ;
