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fine Jockey Colony to Assemble For Arlington Washington Meet About Sixty Riders Will Be Available When Bugle Calls Racers to Post on Monday MondayHOMEWOOD HOMEWOOD 111 June The Arling ¬ tonWashington season of 70 days begin ¬ ning Monday will attract a full comple ¬ ment of the jockey talent it is indicated Virtually all the bug and journeyman jockeys active during the LincolnatHaw thorn session will take their tack to the Homewood course Additionally it is ex ¬ pected that jockeys Eddie Arcaro George Woolf Ted Atkinson and John Longden will commute from Long Island for stakes engagements engagementsThe The most successful of the Lincolnat Hawthorne riders are Al Bodiou who has been staging something of a comeback the skillful Otto Grohs and the promising young J W Martin who led the appren ¬ tices Martin currently is serving a sus ¬ pension that extends through the first seven Arlington programs programsAs As the bugle blew for the first event on todays next to final Lincoln program Otto Grohs was leading all rivals at the meet with 29 firsts as against 25 for Martin and 24 for Bodiou BodiouSeveral Several fashionable racing establish ¬ ments shipped here for the session at the South Side track brought along competent exponents of the riding craft For ex ¬ ample jockey Conn McCreary will be pres ¬ ent to do the bulk of the riding for Calumet Farm F A Smith of Bimelech fame also will sport the famed Devils Red Nick Jemas will ride the costly array of runners who will carry the light blue and white of Louisianas fabulous Greek emigre William Helis Buddy Haas rides for the extensive Woolford Farm establishment of Herbert M Woolf Jess Higley will boot the horses trained by the veteran John Goode including Leslie Combs fleet Dur azna Kempton Knott is engaged to ride the entrants saddled by Tom Devereaux and Willie Crump CrumpAdkins Adkins to Return From Detroit DetroitGeorge George Adkins is one of the most inter ¬ esting members of the local riding frater ¬ nity Injured in the service of his country in the South Pacific he received an hon ¬ orable discharge and recently resumed rid ¬ ing Adkins is busy at Detroit just now but will return to Chicago within the next several days daysIn In addition to the foregoing the veterans George Seabo N L Pierson and Bill Mor risey will be available at the Homewood meet In all it is expected that about 60 riders will be listed listedThirteen Thirteen entries including prominent stakes winners were received for the Beau Pere Handicap 5000 six furlongs feature for Mondays opening up to noon today and as entries remain open until midnight the number may be increased increasedHeading Heading the list are last years sprint champion of Chicago Signator named in the threehorse Woolford Farm entry in ¬ cluding Adulator and Silvestra Occupa ¬ tion With Regards Georgie Drum and a pair of threeyearolds Sirde the Pacific Coast star and Challenge Me MeOthers Others named included Happy issue Ro ¬ man Sox Corona Corona Take Away and Cabin Creek CreekWeights Weights are to be posted and accepted tomorrow morning at the usual time of closing entries for Mondays opening card
