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Faultless Faultless Captures Captures Preakness; Preakness; Lincoln Lincoln Fields Fields Inaugural Inaugural Today Today Hawthorne Is Scene! Of Thirty-Day Meet Jack S. L, Bubbling Easy And Bull Play Among Nine Entered in Crete Handicap HAWTHORNE, Cicero, 111., May 10. — The Chicago racing -scene shifts to this West Side course starting Monday when the Lincoln Fields Jockey Club will present the first of its 30 programs. All is in readiness for the opening at Hawthorne, Chicagolands oldest track, with the plant presenting a most pleasing appearance. Racing secretary Lawrence C. Bogen-schutz has compiled an attractive inaugural program topped by the Crete Handicap, a 0,000 dash of six furlongs for horses three years old and older, which has attracted a field of nine. This is the first stake of the Chicago season and will give the patrons an opportunity to get an early line on the entrants for their later, and perhaps, more important engagements in the area. The supporting races are well up to standard and are brimful of potential competition. Mrs. J. S. Letellier has named Jack S. L. for the Crete and the fleet son of Jack High and Burgee is top weight of the starting field under 119 pounds, an impost that appears justified on his excellent performances. His record compiled during his New Orleans campaign is a sparkling one and he followed this up by smashing races in Kentucky. His score in the Clark Handicap on the first of the month at Churchill Downs gave ample evidence that he has retained his good form, and finishing first or second appears to be almost standard equipment with him. Won Two Sportsmans Features Local patrons are well acquainted with the prowess of David C. Wilhelms Bubbling Easy who is next in the matter of weights in the Crete under 116 pounds. The four-year-old daughter of Ted Easy accounted for the five-furlong Speed, and the six and a half furlongs Cicero handi-haps at Sportsmans Park and these victories followed a success in the Majestic Hotel Handicap at Oaklawn Park. She should prove real competition to the high-weight by a retention of her peak condition. Bull Play will represent W. W. Jones in the feature and the game son of Bull Lea is asked to shoulder 114 pounds. His present Continued on Page Two I i I ! - 1 . 1 1 1 ; ; . 1 * 5 r • Y - - e - - o i Lincoln Fields Inaugurates 30-Day Meeting at Hawthorne Continued from Page One good condition was made obvious by a success in an overnight race at Keeneland and he could earn some part of this purse by a similar display here. E. R. Freijes Forum cannot be overlooked in the Crete field under 112 pounds. The son of Tiger was beaten only about a half length when fourth in the Inaugural at Sportsmans Park and this effort followed consecutive victories at Gulf stream Park. Mrs. Emil Denemark has named two for the opening-day headliner in Future Hero and Chesty, under 110 and 109 pounds, respectively. These two will be making their seasonal debuts but dockers report that they have done all asked of them in trials. River Divide Farms Brief Sigh has been well freshened since his Florida cam- paign where the gray son of Brevity was matched with tough opposition. He may prefer the northern climate. Albulil will represent H. J. Schmitz. Lightly campaigned in Florida during the winter, the Bull Dog gelding concluded that campaign with a corking second in the six-; furlong St. Augustine Purse in which he was beaten only the shortest of margins. The Crete field is completed by W. T. Beez-7. leys Jesting Fox whose lot seems to have been to accept second honors in three Sportsmans Park engagements that in-s eluded the Speed and Cicero handicaps. A winner at Oaklawn Park, Jesting Fox is the light weight of the Crete field under 106 pounds. In addition to the Crete, six other stakes also will be renewed. They are the 0,000 Joliet for two-year-olds on next Saturday; the 0,000 Steger Handicap for three-,, year-olds and upward, on May 24; the 5,-r 000 Francis S. Peabody Memorial, for three-year-olds on May 30; the 0,000 La Salle Handicap the following day, May 31, and the 5,000 Lincoln Handicap on Saturday, June 7. No stake has been carded for the final Saturday of the meeting, June 14, but a high-class feature is expected to be arranged for that date.
