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Charity Week of Racing Begins Monday at Washington Oval Ten Features, Headed by i Stars and Stripes, to Be Run During 5-Day Period . HOMEWOOD, 111., June 26. Preparations are going forward for Chicagos charity week of racing which begins next Monday at Washington Park. This period of sport, the entire profits from which will be donated to war relief and charity, will embrace five days, representing a day surrendered by each of Chicagos tracks: Arlington Park, Washington Park, Lincoln Fields, Hawthorne and Sportsmans Park. Charity week promises to be the biggest period of racing of the entire Chicago season including, as it does, Independence Day, which annually attracts the seasons largest gathering. Highlight of the week will be the 0,000 Stars and Stripes Handicap, the first of five stakes of that value to be presented in Chicago this summer. Girding themselves for this rich run of a mile and a furlong are such powerful contenders for the years handicap championship as Calumet Farms Sun Again, hero last Saturday of the Equipoise Mile; Allen Drumhellers Georgie Drum, runner-up in the same stake; William Boeings Slide Rule, William Helis Rounders, H. P. Headleys Anticlimax, A. J. Sacketts Tola Rose, Miss Ethel Hills War Knight, Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Grimes With Regards and David Straus Daily Trouble. Twenty-six, three-year-olds and older are eligible for the Stars and Stripes and when their owners and trainers have had an; opportunity to study the weights, which are due momentarily, the field will begin to take definite shape. The Arlington Park Jockey Club, who will act as agent during the charity meeting, is crowding into those five days no less than 10 features and in them nearly every top ranking horse on the grounds will have an opportunity to show himself. Skokie July 6 Attraction Next in importance to the Stars and Stripes Handicap, which is scheduled for next Tuesday, July 4, is the 0,000 Skokie Handicap in which three-year-olds will be required to test their speed over seven furlongs. Entries for this stake close on Wednesday and when they are announced the list of nominees is expected to include the names of a number of horses whose sights are set on the 0,000 Arlington Classic and the later and equally rich American Derby. The Skokie is scheduled for July 6. The principal supporting attraction on the Stars and Stripes program will be a ,500 grade "C" contest at six furlongs for three-year-olds while supplementing the Skokie will be the ,500 Johnstown Purse at the same distance but for three-year-olds and older horses. Charity week will get under way next Monday, with a program headed, by the ,500 Top Flight Purse, a mile spin for three-year-old fillies and then following the big July 4 card will come a program jointly featured by the ,000 Stagehand Purse, for three-year-olds ana" upwards at one mile, and the ,000 Blue Larkspur Purse, a six-furlong event for two-year-olds. The final day of the charity racing period, July 7, will see runnings of three attractive features. They are the ,000 John Hervey Handicap, a six-furlong sprint for three-year-olds and upwards; the ,500 Discovery Purse, for three-year-olds at one mile, and a ,500 marathon of two miles on the turf course. Chicago racing this season already has contributed 17,383 to war relief and charity through Lincoln Fields gift of the proceeds of its Memorial Day program and the profits from one other race. Since Lincoln Fields is participating in charity week at Washington Park that track, thus, will be contributing two days to that cause.
