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LINCOLN FIELDS STAKES Col. M. J. Winn Announces List of Eleven Added Money Handicaps. Decoration Day Will Be Biggest Day of Crete Meeting, Which Opens Chicago Racing Season. The Lincoln Fields Jockey Club, whose annual meeting begins at Lincoln Fields on Thursday, May 25, today announced through its president, Col. M. J. Winn, a program of eleven added money handicaps for the session, which will run twenty-seven days. These early closing features are fashioned for the best horses in all classes and will be run at distances from five furlongs to a mile and three-sixteenths. Many of these stakes have been run annually at the Crete track since its opening and each of them will be endowed with ,500 in added money. Three of them are given over to the younger horses, one to fillies and mares, three-year-olds or older, and the others for horses of three years and upward of both sexes. The biggest day of the meeting probably will be Decoration Day, Tuesday, May 30, and on that occasion Lincoln Fields will offer two of these features, the Peabody Memorial Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward, at one mile, and the Chicago Heights Handicap, for two-year-old colts and geldings, at five furlongs. OPENING DAY FEATURE. Concentrating on the opening, which inaugurates the Chicago racing season, and as a result may attract a crowd of Saturday proportions, the program will be topped by the Crete Handicap, a six furlongs sprint, for three-year-olds and upward. On three of the five Saturdays the cards will be headlined by a pair of the stakes. Saturday, May 27, will see the Dearborn Handicap, for two-year-old fillies, at five furlongs, and the Kankakee Handicap, for fillies and mares of three years or older, and to be decided at one mile, down for decision. The starred events for Saturday, June 3, will be the seven furlongs Steger Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward, and the five furlongs Joliet Handicap, for two-year-olds. The next week-end, Saturday, June 10, will offer the longest of these events when the LaSalle Handicap, patterned for three-year-olds and umvard. will be contested over a route of a mile and three-sixteenths. The two stakes down for decision on Saturday, June 17, are the Calumet and the Marquette Handicaps, both for three-year-olds and upward, the former at six furlongs, and the latter at a mile and a furlong. The Lincoln Handicap, another for three-year-olds and upward, at a mile and a sixteenth, will occupy the position of honor on the program of Saturday, June 24, the final day of the season. ENTRIES CLOSE MAY 10. Entry blanks for these stakes, all of which close on May 10, were being dispatched for general distribution among horsemen today. Blanks will be obtainable at all Middle-Western tracks tomorrow and at other tracks a day or so later. They also will be available Continued on twenty-seventh page. LINCOLN FIELDS STAKES Continued from first page. at the Chicago offices of the Lincoln Fields Jockey Club, Box 1540, Congress Hotel. May 25 Crete Handicap, three-year-olds and upward, six furlongs. May 27 Dearborn Handicap, two-year-old fillies, five furlongs. May 27 Kankakee Handicap, three-year-olds and upwardj fillies and mares, one mile. May 30 Chicago Heights Handicap, two-year-old colts and geldings, five furlongs. May 30 Peabody Memorial Handicap, three-year-olds and upward, one mile. June 3 Steger Handicap, three-year-olds and upward, seven furlongs. June 3 Joliet Handicap, two-year-olds, five furlongs. June 10 LaSalle Handicap, three-year-olds and upward, one and three-sixteenths miles. June 17 Calumet Handicap, three-year-olds and upward, six furlongs. June 17 Marquette Handicap, three-year-olds and upward, one and one-eighth miles. June 24 Lincoln Handicap, three-year-olds and upward, one and one-sixteenth miles.
