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CHICAGO SEASON OFF TO LATE START AT CRETE i . _ Swift Band of Sprinters Named for Featured Crete Handicap • . Windy City Fans Displaying Pent-Up Enthusiasm for Racing — The Fighter, Silverette, Easy Mon, Torchy and Lightspur in Headliner — Weather Ideal CRETE, m., May 24.— Thoroughbred racing returns to the Chicago sector tomorrow, when the Lincoln Fields Jockey Club opens its picturesque and modernly appointed course for a meeting of twenty-seven days. The sport in this area is off to a late start this year because of Auroras cancellation of early May dates, but it will flourish uninterruptedly from now until fall with meetings in order at Lincoln Fields Arlington Park, Washington Park, Hawthorne, and closing at Sportsmans Park on October 31. Interest in the return of racing to Chicago is running high, and the managements of other tracks join Col. Matt J. Winn, executive director of Lincoln Fields, in forecasting a good season for the SDort O O — ~ M va* XV* l AA *j kJ|/UJ U. O O — ~ M va* XV* l AA *j kJ|/UJ U. ►Eighteen hours before the curtain was to rise on the Lincoln Fields season the outlook was particularly bright for a combination of reasons. For one thing, prospects were for fair weather and a fast track, and with an excellent program arranged for the first day, patrons were assured much interesting racing. ADVANCE SALE HEAVY.* Another factor pointing to an auspicious inauguration was the enthusiasm and eagerness with which turf fans have been awaiting the return of their favorite sport. An indication of their intentions to turn out in large numbers tomorrow was seen in the advance sale of boxes and reserved seats. The plant has been put in the best of condition, and patrons will find many new improvements and features designed for their comfort and pleasure. For the opening, the entire course will offer a panorama of brightest color, all parts of the stands, club house, patio and other buildings having been decorated in gay hues this spring. The many fashionable stables and the high quality of the thoroughbreds themselves, assures Lincoln Fields of the distinction of offering the best racing possible at the Crete track in many years, and no doubt a class of entertainment that may not be improved upon during the entire Chicago season. PROMINENT STABLES. Some of the prominent stables, whose horses will take part ;n the Lincoln Fields meeting are those of Mrs. John House, P. A. and R. J. Nash, Warren Wright, Jos. E. Widener, Chas. T. Fisher, Thomas D. Tag-gart, John Marsch, Mrs. Ethel V. Mars, Mrs. P. A. B. Widener, Herbert M. Woolf, Emerson F. Woodward, E. E. Fogelson, William F. Morgan, Miss Henrietta Bingham, C. H. Cleary, Mrs. A. M. Creech, William E. Smith, Theodore E. Mueller, Howard Oots, Louis B. Mayer, Morris Vehon, Junius W. Bell, Thomas C. Piatt, D. B. Midkif f, M. A. and L. D. Kern, Otto W. Lehmann, Roy Car-ruthers, M. L. Emerich, Mrs. R. J. Murphy, Anthony Pelleteri, Clyde Van Dusen, J. Lowenstein, Roscoe Goose, Jack Rogers, Hugh Young, S. Bryant Ott, William E» Snyder, C. E. Davison, Mrs. Emil Denemark, Continued on thirty-fifth page. i . ; . I | j j CHICAGO SEASON OFF TO LATE START AT CRETE Continued from first page. Edwin Axton, Hyman Friedberg, William H. Whitehouse, Bert Friend, Garrett Watts, R. W. Mcllvain and. Dr. E. H. Bennett. Attracting- these stables to Lincoln Fields was the tracks liberal purse and stakes program and the frequency with which these features will be offered will give horses of higher quality many opportunities to enter competition. Eleven stakes, the first of which is carded for tomorrow, are to be run during the twenty-seven days, and all of them were subscribed to heavily. The Crete Handicap headlines tomorrows opening program, and then follow runnings of the Dearborn, Kankakee, Chicago Heights, Francis S. Peabody Memorial, Steger, Joliet, La Salle, Calumet, Marquette and Lincoln Handicaps. The Dearborn and Kankakee Handicaps will be presented as the dual features of Saturdays card, while the Chicago Heights and Peabody Memorial Handicaps are the twin attractions of the Decoration day program next Tuesday. PROMISING CONTEST. The Crete, a sprint of six furlongs for three-year-olds and older horses, drew a smart field, and it should do its share to get the meeting off to a flying start. Among those scheduled to match speed here are such redoubtable sprinters as The Fighter, Silverette, Easy Mon, Torchy, Lightspur, Kings Blue, Syracuse, Dora May, Olney, Melodist, Detractor and Chance Ray. All of these horses are familiar to Chicago racegoers and they should wage a thrilling battle for the big end of the ,500 added purse. The Fighter has been honored with top weight of 120 pounds, with Silverette the second highest with 118 pounds. The latter is now nine years old, but she still is a sprinter of no mean ability, and during the Churchill Downs meeting, rattled off three-quarters of a mile in 1:11, to account for a victory. The Crete tops an all around good card of eight races, and the first of them is scheduled for 2:15 tomorrow afternoon. With the arrival of Charles F. Price, association steward, and C. J. FitzGerald, steward representing the Illinois racing commission, all of the officials for the meeting are on hand. Price and FitzGerald will be joined in the stewards stand by C. Bruce Head, who also serves as general manager of Lincoln Fields. The placing judges are William H. Shelley, who also is racing secretary; Harry B. Lindenberger, and Larry C. Bogenschutz; Clifford Sanford is the clerk of scales; William Hamilton, the starter, and James T. Clark, W. R. Dahlstrom and E. A. Hileman, the patrol judges.
