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Track to Present 5,000 Each To Army and NavyFundsToday Only Four-Pound Spread in 1 Weights Between Equifox And Main Rivals in Fixture Francis S. Peabody Memorial Handicap, ,000, Three-Year-Olds and Upward, One and One-Sixteenth Miles. PP. Horse. Jockey. Wt. 1 Pink Gal No Boy 100 2 One Jest L.Haskell 101 3 RoyalCrusaderL. Balaski 112 4 Bulldinger No Boy 105 5 Vinum S. Brooks 102 6 Cherry Trifle B. Pucci 105 7 Heartman W.Borton 112 8 Signator . O. Scurlock 114 9 Step By A. Bodiou 105 10 Equifox A. Craig 116 11 Pumpgun B. Pearson lOf 12 Technician O. Scurlock 113 Woolford Farm entry Signator and Technician. CRETE, 111., May 29. The Lincoln Fields Jockey Club will celebrate Decoration Day tomorrow by turning over to Army and Navy War Relief funds, checks for 5,000 each, gifts of the track as part of racings contribution to National Defense and by staging a gala program headed by a renewal of the Francis S. Peabody Memorial Handicap. The checks totalling 0,000, voted a week ago by directors of the track, will be presented to representatives of the Army and Navy agencies in a ceremony presided over by Stuyvesant Peabody, president of Lincoln Fields and son of the man whose memory the feature race preserves. Also due to take an active part in the presentation is Col. Matt J. Winn, executive director of the track and president of the American Turf Association, who, at Louisville, turned over to the American Red Cross a sum of 0,000 as Churchill Downs share of the estimated ,000,000 the turf industry will raise this year for the nations war effort. Lincoln Fields is also investingN 0,000 in War Bonds and that purchase also will be made tomorrow. Woolford Has Strong Entry Joining in these festivities will be the largest racing crowd of the Chicago season thus far, for indications are that the holiday attendance will nearly tax the capacity of this picturesque South Chicago course. The Peabody Memorial Handicap, a test of a mile and a sixteenth for three-year-olds and upward, drew 12 of the leading distance runners now campaigning in the Middle West. Standing out prominently in the list of scheduled starters are Howard Wells Equifox, Herbert M. Woolfs Signator and Technician, Walter H. Hoffman, Jr.s Royal Crusader, and Jake Lowen-steins Heartman. These horses and the seven others who round out the field will be battling for a purse worth ,000 in added money and a silver trophy which president Peabody annually awards the owner of the winner. Among the five who seem to stand out in the race, there is only a four-pound spread in the weights to indicate how closely racing secretary Wm. H. Shelley rates them. Equifox has top weight of 116 pounds. Signator has 114, Technician, 113, and Royal Crusader and Heartman, 112 pounds each. Equifox, who won the Lincoln Handicap here last year and who captured two Continued on Page Three STUYVESANT PEABODY President of the Lincoln Fields Jockey Club, who will present checks of 5,000 each to the Army and Navy Relief Funds at the Crete track today. Peabody Memorial Tests Crack Field of Twelve Crete Track to Present 5,000 Each to Army-Navy Funds Today Continued from Pape One stakes at Arlington Park, looms the possible favorite though he will be making his first start of the Chicago season. He was a winner at Churchill Downs, however, and has trained her in a manner to suggest he is at or near his best. Royal Crusader, who also will be making his Chicago debut, is recommended by his victory in the Churchill Downs Handicap, while Signator, Technician and Heartman have won engagements since the local meeting began. Signator will be trying for his second stakes victory of the Lincoln Fields meeting, for he captured the Crete Handicap a week ago. John Marschs Bulldinger and C. U. Yae-gers Pumpgun also have something to recommend them as threats in the Peabody Handicap, a six-furlong attraction on-to-morrowscard. Whether they will be started in the richer event must await a later decision. Pumpgun was fourth in the Crete Handicap, while Bulldinger won the Outer Drive Purse here a few days ago. Others named for tomorrows stake are the Arcturus Stables Pink Gal, Endovina and Terrys Vinum, Clarence E. Davisons One Jest, Mrs. L. B. Muschals Cherry Trifle, and W. A. Osbornes Step By. The Memories Handicap also is to engage a smart field, for besides Bulldinger and Pumpgun, the race attracted the entries of Weigh Anchor, Equistar, First of All, Wishing, Vain Grove and Polymelior. First of All and Polymelior were second and third, respectively, in the Crete Handicap. Eight races will be included on the Dec-oratiotn Day program, and the first is scheduled to start at 2:15 oclock.
