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1 i 1 ! 1 | I 1 Lincoln Fields Stakes Blanks Go to Horsemen Six Fixtures Will Be Renewed During Meet at Hawthorne Oval Subscription blanks for the six stakes to be renewed by the Lincoln Fields Jockey Club as Saturday and holiday features during the 29-day meeting that association will hold at the Hawthorne track, from May 16 to June 17. inclusive, are ready for distribution throughout the country. First distribution took place at Churchill Downs in Louisville Wednesday, and at the same time quantities of the forms went forward to Maryland, New York, Rhode Island and California. The stakes to be renewed are the Crete, Francis S. Peabody Memorial, Steger, La-Salle and Lincoln Handicaps for three-year-olds and upward, and the Joliet Stakes for two-year-olds. The Lincoln Fields Jockey Club will add ,000 to each of the six events. The Crete will be decided over six furlongs, while the Steger distance is a sixteenth of a mile farther, and the LaSalle and Lincoln will be run at one mile and three-sixteenths and ten furlongs, respec-| tively. The Peabody will be contested over one mile and a sixteenth, while the lone feature for juveniles will be decided over five furlongs. The Lincoln Fields meeting will inaugurate the major turf season in the Chi- cago area and will be followed by the com- bined Arlington Park and Washington Park meetings at Washington Park, and the Hawthorne session to be staged at the home course of that association. Meetings at Sportsmans Park, Chicagos only half-mile track, will open and close the local season. Nominations for the Lincoln Fields Stakes must be filed with or posted to the Lincoln Fields Jockey Club by May 1.
