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TOM YOUNG Lincoln Fields track tracksuperintendent superintendent has everything in first firstrate rate order for Mondays opening LINCOLN FIELDS OPENS MEETING ON MONDAY MONDAYProspects Prospects Unusually Bright for Successful Crete Session Field of Twelve in Outer Drive Handicap HandicapContinued Continued from first page pageMost Most beneficial indeed to the grounds plants and trees were the rains of yesterday and Thursday night nightIn In all this beautiful setting racing of course will be the important thing Quar ¬ tered on the grounds are the horses of many strong and fashionable stables and here to ride the thoroughbreds in the colors of own ¬ ers whose silks have been making turf his ¬ tory are an exceptionally high number of the countrys best jockeys Almost 900 horses will be in barns at the course by Monday morning with an additional three to four hundred overflow going to Washington Park a few miles away awayCLOSELY CLOSELY MATCHED FIELDS FIELDSWhile While six stakes each endowed with 5000 in added money will engage the outstanding fields of the meeting a very good idea of the quality of racing the program will bring forth for public approval may be obtained from Mondays card of events Headlining the days festivities is the Outer Drive Hand ¬ icap a sprint of six furlongs for three yearolds and upward and since it will test such accepted stars as Joe Schenck Po tranco Technician Flying Lill Franks Boy Equistar Vino Puro Prairie Dog and Bal lindery and closelymatched fields are to meet in other of the eight races turf fans can rest assured that the Lincoln Fields sport will be of the highest order orderIn In his Outer Drive engagement Joe Schenck property of Herbert M Woolf whose stable is the largest here will carry top weight of 118 pounds a single pound more than Potranco the local entry of the Kern brothers Lexbrook Stable Technician stable companion of Joe Schenck is assigned 113 pounds while Frank Gerings Franks Boy Mrs Emil Denemarks Chicagoowned Equistar and Mrs James F Waters Vino Puro will try for victory under 111 pounds each The crack filly Flying Lill owned by Mrs C H Cleary also of Chicago is to shoulder 106 pounds poundsRacing Racing on Monday and every day with the possible exception of Friday May 30 Me ¬ morial Day will start at 215 oclock Cen ¬ tral Daylight Time On Decoration Day the field for the opening race may be called to the starting post a few minutes earlier earlierFIRST FIRST STAKE SATURDAY SATURDAYNext Next Saturdays program will feature the irt of the six stakes nominations for which closed a week ago This first of the tracks richest events is the Crete Handicap and it will draw heavily from among the best mid western sprinters whose speed it will test at six furlongs Subsequently the Francis S Peabody Memorial Handicap to be run on Memorial Day the Joliet Stakes Steger Handicap La Salle Handicap and Lincoln Handicap will headline the holiday and Saturday presentations presentationsLincoln Lincoln Fields one of the first tracks to feature the Daily Double is retaining that form of wagering and again will have it on the second and third races daily The sale of Double tickets will open before the start of the program and close within a few min ¬ utes of post time for the second race raceExcellent Excellent transportation between down ¬ town Chicago and the track will be offered by the C E I and Illinois Central Rail ¬ roads and several bus lines Trains over the C E I run directly to the course while patrons using the Illinois Central will travel by motor between Homewood and the track All buses will unload on the grounds
