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— -— — — ■« . • : i , L t - ! - t 5 - - j • 7 . 5 . . . . 3 , r ! 3 1 B - - B ARLINGTON DRAWS THE BEST Outstanding Trainers of America to Congregate Here Next Week. James Fitzsimmons Coming West in Search of Fourth Classic Victory With Famous Johnstown. ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, 111., June 19.— Ranking trainers of American racing are prepping their best horses for the thirty-day Arlington Park meeting, which will strike the high note of the Mid-West turf season when it opens here on next Monday. From the famous paddocks of the East and West these horsemen will gather, grizzled veterans of hundreds of stake races and brisk young pretenders who have yet to saddle their first Arlington Classic, Kentucky Derby or Preak-I ness winner. Chief among the eastern horsemen will be famed "Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons, the New York trainer to millionaire socialites. He will be invading Chicago once more in quest of the gold and glory of the 0,000 Classic Stakes and the most valuable of Americas racing trophies that goes with it. SADDLED THREE WINNERS. Three times Fitzsimmons has sent out horses to win the Classic Stakes from the Belair Stud of William Woodward, chair-3 man of The Jockey Club. Now to follow on the heels of the successful sorties of Wood-r wards Gallant Fox, Omaha and Granville, Fitzsimmons will dispatch Johnstown, hero of the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes, with high hopes for a fourth Belair triumph in the countrys most important mid-summer race for three-year-olds. In sharp contrast with the long record and experience of Fitzsimmons will be the youth and bright confidence of Louis Schaefer. Only recently retired as a jockey, he will saddle William L. Branns Challedon, the mud-running Marylander which humbled Johnstown in the Preakness. Another ex-jockey, older and better known to fame than Schaefer, will be Earl Sande, who will come to Arlington with John Hay Whitney s Clas-. sic candidate. Heather Broom, and other stars pointing for the north-side tracks stakes. Major Louis A. Beard, Arlingtons director of racing, claims that never in the big Chicago tracks history has so strong a horsemens contingent graced the paddock and barns. They will be shooting at 50,000 in Continued on thirteenth page ARLINGTON MjAWS THE BEST Continued from first page. prize money, which includes 6,000 in added money to stakes and a handsome endowment to the trainers themselves for winners in races over a mile and three-sixteenths. Not less than ,000 in purses will be given away daily, an average of not less than ,000 in a race. CALUMET STABLE STRING. Notables among the Arlington training colony will be Frank Kearns with twenty-three Calumet Stable horses, owned by Warren Wright; William Brennan, trainer of the two Whitney family branches, Mrs. Payne Whitneys Greentree Stable and Mrs. Charles S. Paysons Manhasset Stable; Don Cameron, with the J. Shirley Riley, Mrs. Vera Bragg and Mrs. John Hertz horses; former jockey Jimmy Smith of Dixiana; Ben A. Jones, developer of the Derby winner, Lawrin, and the Woolford Farm horses; Hal Price Headley and his nephew, Duval Headley; Dan Stewart, who handles the western and southern divisions for Joseph E. Widener; J. J. Flannigan of Texas Val-dina Farms; J. J. Greeley, conditioner for the Nash brothers Shandon Farm, and Anthony Pelleteri, with thirty-eight horses owned by himself and the Millsdale Stable. Trainer Howard "Babe" Wells will be in charge of a twenty-four-horse string owned by himself, Howard Oots, Dixie McKinley, Tom Taggart and R. W. Mcllvaine, Chicago oil man; L. D. Gasser, from Mrs. Emil Dene-marks stable; Roscoe Goose, developer of jockeys as well as horses, with the John Marsch stable; Sherrill Ward, with a public stable owned by prominent Kentuckians; Kirby Ramsey, Al G. Tarn, J. M. Goode and J. W. Murphy. Also Bennett Creech, the "cowboy" trainer; George Brooks, Jack Hanover, Ross O. Hig-don, C. E. Davison, Harry Goldstine and John Oros, whose son, J. E. Oros, is the leading American rider. Horsemen will find Arlingtons modern stables, which can accommodate 1,250 horses, immaculately appointed on their arrival. The barns have been repainted and reroofed. The walking paths under the sheds, packed hard from years of plodding hooves, have been plowed up and given a cushion as soft as the springy surface of the race track itself.
