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WORK AT ARCADIA HAS BEGUN. William J. Harding, familiarly known to turfmen tis "John Bright," is in Chicago en route from Los Angeles to New Yolk, where he will handle Toots Mook and three or four other hors-s. His partnership with Abe Frank, of Memphis, was dissolved last winter. Harding spent the months of January and lebtuary iu the California Hospital at Los Angeles with a bad case of pneumonia. Afterward he went to "Lucky" Baldwins ranch at Arcadia to recuperate. He sa.s the work of grad lag for the Baldwin track has been begun and is progressing rapidly. "The material for the build ings." he said, "has been ordered and when 1 left they were expecting it daily. As I understand it. Mr. Baldwin has been assured by 1residon! Williams that the Pacific Jockey Club will gi.e him a division of the dates at Los Angeles next winter if his track is ready for racing. There seems now to be no ipiestion about racing at As cot Park next winter. I know nothing of the details of the agreement, but everyone has the understanding that the ordinance against betting is not to be enforced. Even should the eitjr ottieiah; conclude to enforce the ordinance, the county supervisors, I am told, are in the majority for lacing and it would lie no trick at all to move the belting ring at Asiot Park into the county. The line marking the city limits runs not more than ] X yards back of the grandstand and the present ring. "There was a story abroad that Clem Creveling had ceased to be a factor iu the Baldwin Racing Association, but this is not true. He is superintending the grading of the track and when I last saw him he was a PKtty busy man. In addition to this work he is managing the Baldwin Hotel at Arcadia."
