Show cO3lBY ISLAND SPORT Value of Stakes Increased for Next Summers Races New York Dec 12The Coney Island Is-land Jockey club stakes for 1898 including in-cluding all the old popular fixtures have been announced and with them comes the announcement of the closing of the futurity for the year 1900 The futurity to be run at the autumn meeting closing the nineteenth century cen-tury will be the first to close the time fixed being Jan 4 next The other stakes for the June and autumn meetings of 1898 are to close on Jan 10 The most important of these is the suburban handicap to be run at the June meeting on the famous old Sheepshead Bay course at the timehonored distance one mile and a quarter The value of this has been increased to 10000 guaranteed cash value a against 7500 for the suburban subur-ban Of last spring The other big stakes are the Great Trial 20000 and the Double Event and the Great Eastern East-ern handicap 5000 for the autumn meeting h |