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WASHINGTON PARKNEXT President W. L Gregory and Officials . Predict Record Meeting. Homewood Track Voluntarily Raises Purse Values Nine Added Money Features Scheduled for Session. HOMEWOOD, 111., July 28 As preparations go forward for the opening of Washington Parks thirty-day meeting next Monday, president Walter L. Gregory and other officials are predicting the biggest season the track has had in a number of years. There is a lively interest in the meeting among Chicago racing fans and they will be treated to some high-grade sport, made possible through the tracks liberal purse policy and its attractive stakes program. Washington Park voluntarily increased purses for overnight races, and its stakes program provides for nine added money features. Two of these stakes are down for each of the first four Saturdays, of the meeting and one for the final Saturday, September 2. This latter event carries an added purse of ,000, while ,500 will be added to each of the others. Nominations close one week before each of the stakes is run. DUAL HE AD LINERS. First to hold the attention of horsemen and turf fans alike are the Chicago Handicap and the Sheridan Handicap, which headline the first Saturday card of the meeting. The Chicago, for three-year-olds and upward, is a sprint of six furlongs, while the Sheridan, limited to three-year-olds, is to be decided at a mile and seventy yards. The other stakes on the Washington Park calendar are the Lakeside Handicap, the Prairie State Stakes, the Beverly Handicap, the Olympia Fields Handicap, the Great Western Handicap, the Ravisloe Stakes and finally the Washington Park Handicap. In addition to these events many others will be programmed to keep the better horses busy. NOTED STABLES. Among the stables which are to take part in the local session are those of J. E. Wide-ner, Herbert M. Woolf, John Marsch, J. Graham Brown, Mrs. C. C. Winters, A. C. Ernst, Warren Wright, A. G. Tarn, Kirby Ramsey, Emerson F. Woodward, Charles T. Fisher, Mrs. A. M. Creech, Miss E. D. Duffy and Thomas Piatt. These are only a few of the prominent patrons whose colors "will be Continued on thirty-fifth page. WASHINGTONPARK NEXT Continued from first page. seen at the Homewood course. A number of capable riders also will be seen in silks here. Some of these are Warren Yarberry, Charles Kurtsinger, James Ashcroft, Nunzio Pariso, M. L. Fallon, Paul Ryan, Glen Smith, Warren Van Tassel, Willie Garner, Jack Richard, Robert Conley, Mike Cafferella, Charles Rollins, Clayton Perkins, Harold West, Alcee Richard, T. E. Ward, Henry Hauer, George Martin and Jose Marrero. Additional stables continue to arrive both here at Washington Park and at Lincoln Fields, where the overflow is being provided for. It is estimated that more horses will be available for racing here than in a num-! ber of years. I Entries for the first program will be accepted tomorrow, both at Washington Park ! and at Arlington, and they will be printed j and distributed at both tracks. Scratch time daily will be 8 oclock a. m. The Illinois Central Railroad again will serve patrons with fast service to and from the track and between the course and the Loop, making stops only at 53rd and 63rd Streets.
