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Bidwill Memorial First Of Hawthorne Stakes Nominations for 0,000 Event Slated to Close This Saturday CICERO, 111., Aug. 24. The proximity of Hawthornes sixty - second anniversary meeting was emphasized Saturday when racing secretary Lawrence C. Bogenscutz called attention to the fact that nominations close next Saturday, August 29, for the first of the tracks 10 stakes events, the 0,000 C. W. Bidwill Memorial Handicap. Hawthornes fall meeting opens on Tuesday, September 8, following the close of Washington Park on Labor Day. The one and one-eighth-mile Bidwill Handicap will be renewed for its seventh running on Saturday, September 12. Most of the leading handicap horses who have campaigned in the Chicago area since the Lincoln Fields meeting last spring are expected to be nominated for the Bidwill, together with a number from other points. Besides the Bidwill, many of these have their sights set on the 5,000 Hawthorne Gold Cup, to be run on the final day of the meeting, October 17. Mr. and Mrs. AUie Reuben, owners of Hasty House Farm, Toledo, Ohio, who have been bringing up heavy batteries with remarkable success in the big races hereabouts this season, can be expected to have a formidable entry in the Bidwill; Hasty House horses ran one-two in the Bidwill last year when Oil Capitol and Ruhe finished in that order. Oil Capitol was second to Mr. Fox the previous year, but in 1950 Hasty House Farm took first and third in the Bidwill with Seaward and Inseparable, while accomplishing the downfall of a former winner, Volcanic, owned by Walmac Farm. Incidentally, it was the Bidwill in which Volcanics brilliant stablemate, Billings 128, was-stopped in his sweep through" the Hawthorne stakes of 1949 when he was defeated by the lightly weighted Oration 101. Meanwhile, horsemen are scanning the first of Bogenschutz condition book in search of suitable races in which to run their horses. Rapid progress has been made on the two new barns at Hawthorne to replace those destroyed by fire on July 19, and the new structures are expected to be ready for occupancy in time for the September 8 opening. Superintendent Charles C. Miller reports both the main track and the grass course to be in excellent condition. The plant has received a rather general going over with new paint. The management is sanguine that this will be one of the best meetings in the long history of Hawthorne, one of Americas oldest race tracks. i i .
