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CRETES DUAL FEATURES Dearborn and Kankakee Handicaps I N Main Events on Program. Big Field Named for Kankakee, With ] Cross Keys the Top Weight — Juveniles Share Honors. CRETE, 111., May 26— The second and ■ third of Lincoln Fields eleven stakes will be ] offered at the popular local course tomorrow 1 • and both of them drew fast fields. The Kan- , kakee Handicap, for older fillies and mares ! and to be run over a mile, is specially at- tractive for, of the thirty which were nomi- . nated for it, sixteen have been entered. The ■ Dearborn, a five furlongs dash for two-year- : old fillies, has only seven contestants, an ; epidemic of coughing among the youngsters i i here probably accounting for the absence of • many of those originally intended for this : xace. The first of the Lincoln Fields stakes — , the Crete Handicap — headlined yesterdays 1 opening program and was won by Garrett 1 Watts Silverette. Cross Keys, owned by Dan B. Midkiff and Howard Wells, will make her bid for Kan-Icakee Handicap honors under top weight of 116 pounds, which, however, should not rest too heavily on her. Some of the star fillies and mares she will oppose are Milky Way Farms Dinner Date, Woolford Farms Unerring, Mrs. Emil Denemarks Vassar and Dressy, E. E. Fogelsons Smart Crack, Fried-berg and Axtons Manie OHara and Bala Or-mont, and Shandon Farms Blazearound. With few exceptions, all the best thoroughbreds in this division are listed as starters in tomorrows feature for older horses. I HEADS LIST WITH 122 rOUNDS. 1 W. F. Morgans Downy Pillow and Mrs. Kirby Ramseys Sassy Mate head the list of entrants in the Dearborn Handicap and they are to carry 122 and 118 pounds, respectively. Downy Pillow won her only two engagements accounting for the Debutante Stakes 1 at Churchill Downs for her second triumph. Sassy Mate won her only start, also at Louisville. . Others to contest this juvenile dash are ■ "Valdina Farms Valdina Nymph and Valdina ■ Minx, Clyde Van Dusens Betty Sweep, J. E. • Wideners Welding and J. W. Parrishs Whim .Wham. Lincoln Fields program tomorrow also i embraces six other attractive races. A splendid crowd of 10,000 persons turned out for the opening of the Chicago racing season here yesterday and the attendance Continued on seventeenth page. . CRETES DUALFEATURES Continued from first page. may reach double that figure tomorrow if the weather is favorable. Post time for the first race will be 2:15 p. m. The fields follow: KANKAKEE HANDICAP. PP. Horse. Wt. Jockey. 1— Dinner Date 110.. ....A. Robertson 2— Buttermilk 107., C. Rollins 3 — fBlazearound ....105 4— f Morstep 105 . !*!!!!! 5 — JManie OHara . . . 109 . . . . 6 — §Rude Awakening.106 7— ttVassar ...103. W. E. Snyder 8— Cross Keys 116 R. Dotter 9— Smart Crack 110 10 — Unerring 112 .m[ 11— Carla 106 W. Yarberry 12— IfDressy 103 G. Wallace 13 — §Minnetonka .... 105 14 — Miss Bonnie 106 ".!".!".*.!! 15— JMontsin 106 . "nV Pariso 16— JBala Ormont. . . .108 1. Anderson tShandon Farm entry; JFriedberg and Axton entry; §C. E. Hagyard entry; ffMrs. E. Dene-mark entry. DEARBORN HANDICAP. PP. Horse. Wt. Jockey. 1 — Downy Pillow 122 2— fValdina Nymph. 115 , 3— Betty Sweep 115 E. Steffen 4 — fValdina Minx. . . .112 5— Welding 114 W. Yarberry 6— Sassy Mate 118 R. L. Vedder 7— Whim Wham 114". fValdina Farms entry.
