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Chicago Sport Shifts Monday to Popular Washington Park . South Chicago Handicap Heads Eight-Race Card Opening Day at Homewood Is Also Initial Ladies Day of Meeting Ten in Feature. HOMEWOOD, 111., July 29. The third of Chicagos major tracks opens Monday, when the Washington Park Jockey Club inaugurates a season of thirty days, with prospects brighter than they have been in some years. The track has made, elaborate preparations for its opening and officials freely predict a crowd in excess of 15,000 persons will be on hand to usher in the sport at this popular south side course. Sure to help swell the attendance will be hundreds of women who will be admitted to the grounds as guests of the management on the first of its ladies days. A splendid card of eight races has been arranged for the inaugural, and the feature of this offering will be the South Chicago Handicap, in which ten capable sprinters are to meet at three-quarters of a mile. The field for this feature, the first of many similar ones fans can expect throughout the meeting, includes Mrs. C. H. Clearys Flying Lill, the three-year-old daughter of Flying Heels, which accounted for the Kentucky Oaks and then went to Arlington Park to Continued on thirty-eighth page. T j HEADS H0MEW00D TRACK i, . . . --4 , : j WALTER L. GREGORY . CHICAGO SPORT SHIFTS TO POPULAR WASHINGTON PARK ON MONDAY Continued from first page. capture the Matron Handicap. A versatile performer, Flying Lill sprints and travels a route with apparent equal facility and she is certain to have a strong following for Mondays engagement. PLENTY OF CONTENTION. If Flying Lill is to add the South Chicago Handicap to her list of achievements, however, she will have her work cut out for her, for among others named for this inaugural feature are the Woolford Farms Joe Schenck and Rifted Clouds, J. E. Wideners Bucking, John Marschs Kings Blue, Mrs. C. C. Winters Night Editor, Mrs. A. M. Creechs Dusky Prince and Shady Brook Farms Grass Cutter. Joe Schenck has been assigned top weight of 118 pounds, while Flying Lill and Grass Cutter must shoulder 116 each. Night Editors impost is 115 and Kings Blues 114. The South Chicago promises to be a thrilling race, and so do a number of other of the contests arranged by racing secretary C. J. McLennan. The first race is scheduled for 2:15 oclock. HIGH CLASS SPORT. Many powerful stables are on hand for the meeting and Washington Park will find itself in the enviable position of being able to offer high class racing throughout the season. Some of the prominent turf patrons whose colors will be on display here this summer, besides those who have representatives in Mondays feature, are Warren Wright, Emerson F. Woodward, Roscoe Goose, Charles T. Fisher, Lexbrook Stable, Thomas Piatt, Theodore E. Mueller, S. B. Ott and many more. Further, some of the most capable jockeys in the West will be here to accept mounts. These include Warren Yarberry, Nunzio Pariso, Mike Caffa-rella, Paul Ryan, Willie Garner, George Wallace, Warren Van Tassel, Jack Richard, M. L. Fallon, Glen Smith and George Oros. The stables either here or which will be here in time for the opening, include horses of quality to insure splendid runnings of each of the nine stakes to be presented during the thirty days. HANDICAPPING CONTEST. Appealing also to fans will be the program handicapping contest which again will be in vogue. The sport will be conducted, as in the past, under capable officials. McLennan, one of the most able men in his field, is back as racing secretary, while the stewards stand will be manned by C. J. FitzGerald, Sr., representing the Illinois Racing Commission; William Hamilton and Norris Royden, the latter serving his first season as steward at Washington Park. The placing judges are Sidney S. Brown, C. J. FitzGerald, Jr., and L. C. Bogenschutz. Roy Dickerson is the starter. In discussing the meeting, Walter L. Gregory, president of the Washington Park Jockey Club, said every indication pointsNto a banner season at the local course, and in this conviction he is joined by other officials of the track.
