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■ t HOLIDAY SPORT AT ARLINGTON Renew 0,000 Added Stars and Stripes Handicap on July 4. Winning Roster of Stake Includes the Names of Equipoise, Discovery, Indian Runner and Blue Larkspur. Building for a colorful "July Fourth" week-end of racing, Arlington Park officials will run the ,000 Matron Stakes, for fillies and mares, on Saturday, July 1, and renew the 0,000 Stars and Stripes Handicap, a race in which champions have run with mixed fortune, on Tuesday, July 4. Nominations for these two stakes and three others— the Arlington Handicap, the Hyde Park Stakes and the Inaugural Handicap-close on June 1. The thirty-day meeting opens here Monday, June 26. The eleven-year-old Stars and Stripes Handicap boasts an exciting history. Over its mile and a furlong course, Sun Beau, worlds greatest money winner, was twice beaten, finishing third in 1929 to Dowagiac and Misstep and third again in 1930 to Blue Larkspur and Misstep. Then followed Plucky Plays upsetting of rugged Mike Hall and the smashing victory of Equipoise over Tred Avon, the Mary-lander, and Dr. Freeland, the Preakness winner. Indian Runner registered the stakes only double in 1933- and 1934. In 1935 the champion Discovery won the July Fourth feature, but in attempting to repeat he ran out of the money in 1936 behind the Canadian invader, Stand Pat. The Chicago-owned Corinto won the race in 1937. Seabiscuit, later to down War Admiral in their match at Pimlico, was turned back over an "off" track by War Minstrel in last years renewal before the largest crowd of the Chicago racing season. Only top-flight mares have won the five runnings of the Matron mile. Launched in 1930, Mrs. John Hertzs Valenciennes won its inaugural and Risque came back the following year to carry the Chicago sportswomans colors to a double. Tred Avon was its heroine in 1932. The stake was suspended until .1937 when Marica won handsomely. Last year, Idle Miss, later killed in a training accident, was the Matron heroine. : — *
