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► ■HHHBBHHBIHIHni IMw®"-. oiOi BSk lltllllii iiftip 1181 tffei Arlington Inaugurates 36-Day Meeting at Homewood Course Eleven Fleet Sprinters to Meet In Myrtlewood, Initial Feature Washington Park Scene of i 67 Days Continuous Sport — Schedule 37 Stakes in All HOMEWOOD, III., June 19.— With a program of stakes and handicaps that will attract the presence of many of the nations outstanding thoroughbreds, the Arlington Park Jockey Club, headed by John D. Allen, president, inaugurates its 36 -day summer meeting at Washington Park on Monday with a stellar program headed by the first of 21 added money features, the Myrtle-wood Handicap, a sprint of six furlongs for three-year-olds and upward. The Arlington season will run through Saturday, July 31, n . will be followed immediately by the 31 -day session of the Washington Park Jockey Club, with which it is co-ordinated. The Myrtlewood Handicap, which carries an added purse of ,000, is the first of a long procession of Arlington features that will include the Stars and Stripes Handicap, the Classic and Arlington Handicap, each worth 0,000 in added money, and the Arlington Futurity, which, with its 0,000 purse and eligibility and starting fees, is one of the richest events in the world for two-year-olds. Later the Classic, Arlington Handicap and Arlington Futurity will have their equally festive counterparts in the American Derby, Washington Park Handicap and Washington Park Futurity under the auspices of the Washington Park Jockey Club, whose meeting runs through September 6. Myrtlewood Myrtlewood Handicap, Handicap, ,000, ,000, Three-Year-Olds Three-Year-Olds and and Upward, Upward, Six Six Furlongs. Furlongs. PP. PP. Horse. Horse. Jockey. Jockey. Wt. Wt. 1— 1— Pig Pig Tails Tails N. N. Jemas Jemas 108 108 2— 2— Ended Ended No No Boy Boy 110 110 3 3 — — Suncap Suncap No No Boy Boy 111 111 4 4 — — Bushwhacker Bushwhacker L. L. Whiting Whiting 106 106 5 5 — — Signator Signator N. N. Jemas Jemas 118 118 6— 6— Slide Slide Rule Rule V. V. Bush Bush 111 lit 7 7 — — Some Some Chance Chance J. J. Renick Renick 111 ill 8— 8— Thumbs Thumbs Up Up O. O. Grohs Grohs 122 122 9 9 — — Overdrawn Overdrawn S. S. Parise Parise 113 113 10 10 — — Harvard Harvard Sqre Sqre R. R. Neves, Neves, Pfc Pfc 107 107 11 11 — — Sales Sales Talk Talk No No Boy Boy 109 109 Woolford Woolford Farm Farm entry entry — — Pig Pig Tails, Tails, Signator. Signator. The Arlington Park Jockey Club has scheduled stakes and overnight races designed to bring to Chicago the turfs top-ranking thoroughbreds and during the coming 36 racing days expects to parade such equine luminaries as Warren Wrights Whirlaway, Nellie L. and Ocean Wave, Mrs. J. Hertz Count Fleet, John Marschs Occupation, Mrs. Albert Sabaths Alsab, William E. Boeings Devils Thumb and Slide Rule, Valdina Farms Rounders and Valdina Orphan, Mrs. Payne Whitneys Devil Diver, Coward and DuPuys Marriage, A. C. Ernsts Aletern, William Helis Attention, Charles T. Fishers Amber Light, Brownell Combs Miss Dogwood. A. S. Hewitts Some Chance, Herbert M. Woolfs Signator, R. S. McLaughlins Fairaris, Louis Tufanos Market Wise and many others. Besides the Classic, Arlington Handicap and Arlington Futurity, the coming meeting will see renewals of such popular fixtures as the Equipoise Mile, the Arlington Lassie Stakes, the Arlington Matron Handicap, the Grassland Handicap, the Primer and Hyde Park Stakes and the Cleopatra Contirued on Page Two JOHN D. ALLEN— President of the Arlington Park Jockey Club, whose 36-day meeting gets under way at Washington Park, its South Side sister track, this afternoon. THUMBS UP — The Louis B. Mayer campaigner carries top weight of 122 pounds in the Myrtlewood Handicap, opening-day feature of the Arlington meeting. Arlington Meet Opens at Homewood; Eleven Vie in Myrtlewood Handicap Sixty-Seven Days Continuous4 Racing at Washington Park; Run 37 Stakes During Period Continued from Page One Handicap. These events have been endowed with purses up to 0,000 and there are a host of others worth no less than ,000. The Arlington program book also fairly scintillates with attractive overnight features fashioned to keep the better horses before the public. Between the two associations, Arlington and Washington Parks will distribute more than ,500,000 among owners and during the two meetings no purse will be worth less than ,500. That the Myrtlewood Handicap Monday will have a splendid renewal was seen today when 11 of the 20 nominees accepted weights. The Myrtlewood last year was won by With Regards, then a three-year-old, and two of such age are among those to take part in Mondays renewal as part of their preparation for the Classic and other important events to come for three-year-olds. They are William E. Boeings Slide Rule and Vincent L. Sheas recently acquired Suncap. Surrounding them in the overnight entries are Louis B. Mayers Thumbs Up, Woolford Farms Signator and Pig Tails, A. S. Hewitts Some Chance, Dearborn Stables Overdrawn, Mill B Stables Ended, Mrs. A. M. Creechs Sales Talk, Walmac Farms Bushwhacker and A. T. Simmons Harvard Square. Thumbs Up, who arrived from New York earlier in the week and winner of the Glen-coe and Great Western Handicaps in Chicago last summer, will shoulder top weight of 122 pounds, while Signator, hero of the Lincoln Fields Jockey Clubs Crete Handicap and also an outstanding sprinter here last summer, is next with 118 pounds. Slide Rule and Some Chance come next with 114 pounds, and from there, the weights scale down to the 107 which represents Harvard Squares assignment. Eight races are included on Mondays card, as they will be on daily programs throughout the meeting, and they, too, bring together well-matched fields. Post time for the first race will be 3 oclock. Two Big War Relief Rays The transfer of the Arlington meeting to Washington Park, necessary under war. restrictions, produces a combined racing operation which for purse distribution and quality of the sport will exceed any season at a single track in the history of racing. Recognized leaders of the older divisions and starlets from among the juveniles will be on display almost daily throughout the 11 weeks, and their exploits during the combined sessions of the Arlington and Washington Park Jockey Clubs are certain to bear heavily on the 1943 championships of the various thoroughbred divisions. During a season of many highlights, two of the biggest occasions during the summer here will be the war relief days which the two clubs have set aside. They have dedicated their two biggest days, Independence Day and Labor Day, to this cause and the entire profits from the two pro-: grams will be given agencies engaged in ; the relief of service men and their families | | and allied charities. Last year the Arlington Park Jockey Club was able to turn over 46,2°2 to War Relief, while the Washington Park Jockey Club, presided over by Walter L. Gregory, raised 55,667. This year with the combined resources of the two managements co-ordinated under the direction of. Ben H. Lindheimer, War Relief may realize even greater sums. Lindheimer, who has been operational head of the two tracks since they were acquired by their present owners, has given much time and energy to the promotion of the interlocked meetings and no little of his attention has been focused on activities leading up to the War Relief days. Many Innovations at Track On behalf of the two associations, Lindheimer has been instrumental in the introduction of many innovations in Chicago racing, not the least important of which has been the development of turf racing, and this variety of sport again will constitute a good part of the Arlington-Washington presentations. He also has improved conditions for the public and racing men alike and he was one of the forces behind the policy which extensively increased the value of stakes and purses at those two tracks. An innovation this season • was the appointment of a greater number of stewards for the closer supervision of the sport and under the new arrangement these officials will be stationed at strategic points around the track instead of being assembled, as formerly, in a pagoda near the finish line. The members of this staff will include William Hamilton, Lincoln Plaut, L. C. Bogenschutz, James C. McGill, George Foster and C. J. Fitzgerald, Jr. Barry Whitehead will serve as paddock steward. Lindheimer also has supervised a program of improvements constructed at Washington Park within the limits of wartime restrictions and included among them is a new sector converted for use by the Post and Paddock Club, of which Laurence Armour is head. It is situated in the north end of the clubhouse and it includes many of the comforts and features which a similar enclosure embraced at Arlington Park. The Washington Park Jockey Club will continue its policy of popular prices for admissions, .30 for grandstand and .40 for the clubhouse. Transportation to the track is available on the regular lines of the Illinois Central Electric Railroad, which plies between the course and down down Chicago at frequent intervals.
