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NEW ORLEANS IS CROWDED. ! i SEASON WILL OPEN TODAY WITH BRIGHTER PROSPECTS THAN IN OTHER YEARS. Track Is in Good Condition Feature Race Offers Much of a Puzzle to Turfmen Easterners Like the Burlew Entry. New Orleans, La., November 23. On the eve of the opening of the Crescent City Jockey Clubs meeting at the Fair Grounds, this city presents the usual scenes attending the beginning o a long period of racing. Every train arriving during the last twenty-four hours has .been crowded with followers of the turf and the hotels and boarding houses are filling up so rapidly that late comers will have to hustle for quarters. The east has sent a stronger delegation here this winter than ever before. At both tracks all stables have leen allotted and stalls on the outside are Incoming scarce. From present indications the attendance at the Fair Grounds tomorrow will be as large as at former first -days. There has, of course. lK?en some grumbling Iiecuuse of the .50 admission fee, but this is not unusual in similar cases, and is causing the Fair Grounds management no worry. Twenty-five or more lwokmakers are expected to be in Hue for the first day. There are fully three times as many in the city. Three field books, to be controlled, it is said, by the Cella-Adler-Tilles interests, will be in operation at the old track. This is a new departure here. The races for the opening day filled well. The Inaugural Handicap, which is the headiiner for the afternoon, has twenty-two carded nominations and if the track remains in .good shape, fifteen or more will line up to the barrier. The best rider avail-; the weight adjustment", the winner is .difficult to forecast. The easterners seem to favor the Burlew-ONeill pair, Belmere and Kebo. The former will he ridden by J. Hennessy and the latter by Garner. Minnie Adams, which has leen allotted top weight, 110 ponuds, is a doubtful starter. If she does not go, Nieols services will be secured by J. Phillips, who thinks lie has a royal chance to win with Jack Dolau. All the officials, with the exception of presiding judge Clarence McDowell and paddock judge J. L. Hall, who are detained at the Bennings meeting, are on hand. Many improvements have been made at the old course, the most notable being the building of a timers stand and an electric device to display results from the judges stand. Judge Watkins, owned by Frank Duffy, died from exhailstion because of the long trip here from Cincinnati. W. H. Snyder brought eighteen horses from New York. L. Smith will do most of the riding for the stable. Robert Tucker was among todays arrivals. He will superintend the training of his horses for the present. After his departure II. C. IUddle will take full charge, of the string. It. McDaniel and Dave Nlcol will divide the riding for the stable. Ex-jockey Joe Scherrer will be the agent for the Tucker stable this winter. Jockey Garner will do the riding for J. II. Mc-Cormick, who will have a string of sixteen horses here during the season. Ed Trotter returnel from the Texas circuit with nine horses that he has been campaigning there since the close of the fall meeting at Louisville. Charlie Cella will be amoug the big oierators. He claims lo have booked a big losing at the eastern tracks for the past season. The original third race, which was at one mile and a furlong, had to be declared off. It did not attract a sufficient number of entries. The first race was split and made the fifth race and the original fifth race was moved up to third on the card.
