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BUILDING NEW COURSE AT ARCADIA. Large Force Is Engaged Under Direction of "Lucky" Baldwin to Rush the Work. Unless there has been a hitch in the plans at Los Angeles the work of grading the new track at Arcadia is now In progress. "Work will begin Monday morning at Arcadia and 100 teams will be started bright and early to building the track whereon it is planned to hold a winter race meeting, beginning Thanksgiving Day," says the Los Angeles evening News of Saturday. ".Lucky Baldwin has telegraphed these instructions and the teams are ready to begin the work that will complete the track without delay. "One of the Interested parties in the Arcadia proposition, a horseman of wealth, now is on his way to New York to meet George Bose when he arrives from Burope. The bookmaker either lias sailed for America or will sail within a few days and should arrive in Los Angeles within a fortnight. He is to be the leading spirit in the Arcadia race meeting and unless the plans whereby Rose and his associates are to become associated with Baldwin in building the racing plant shall fail at the last moment, racing will be conducted on the Baldwin Park grounds next winter and this meeting will bo the successor to the Ascot winter meeting. "There is nothing unreasonable in such a proposition. In fact, it is the only reasonable outcome of the hard fight against racing in Los Angeles. It begins to appear as impossible for the Los Angeles Jockey Club to hold its winter meeting at Ascot. The courts have decided against such a proposition In the annexation litigation and the Supreme Court cannot render a decision before October, which would be too late for the Jockey Club to fill its stakes, if the decision should be favorable. The city council and mayor are believed to be against the proposition. With these facts plainly in evidence, the local race promoters must look elsewhere for a location that will ho near to Los Angeles and yet free of the possibility , of official Interference. "Arcadia offers the best chance and when the local promoters seized upon it, they made a wise move. At Arcadia it will he possible to conduct race meetings until the legislature meets, at least. Ample transportation facilities will be provided, say those interested, and a low round-trip rate will be provided. These facts are dwelt upon at length by the spokesman for the proposed new jockey club and lie is authority for the statement that Hose and Baldwin, representing the two parties to the proposed plans, will have all plans completed and the Jockey Club and racing association formed just as soon as Rose returns from europe. That there is justification for the statement that Baldwin and Rose will be the leaders in the new enterprise is proved in the recent statement of Baldwin to the effect that the Baldwin Racing Association would be reorganized and include wealthy turfmen in its directory."
