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SANTA ANITA WORK IS SMART. Constructor Allen Has Ordered Steel and is Using 200 Teams. Lo? Angeles. Cal., September 23. Work on tho new Santa Anita track is going on. The contracts for steel have been lot and fully 200 teams are finishing up the grading. The track is promised for racing December 1 by A. N. Allen, the constructor. W. J. Brooks, who was George Rose s right-hand man at Ascot Park, will not manage, the Santa Anita track or hold any responsible position with it. He has been virtually barred by the Pacific Coast Jockey Club. The track s manager will probably be Jack Atkin, so long associated as bookmaker and owner with Barney Schrelber. , , , There is some talk, too, about Dr. J. S. Gardner, president of the Kansas City track, being associated with the management, and Lyman Davis of Louisville being made secretary. Colonel A. W. Hamilton will probably bo presiding judge. The tract of land was purchased by the company for ,000 an acre. The site "Includes rather more . S 1 than eighty acres, while several strips have been secured across the county road, where barns will be built. The stand will face the north, so the horses will have the western sun at their backs coming down the stretch. The stand will be -built to accommodate 8,000, and will be one of the largest structures of Its kind In the west. "Curley" Brown is still booming his Acnice Cal. race track project, despite the fact that the Arcadia compact of Baldwin, Rose and Schrelber has made Aenice an impossibility. Brown claims to have the support of John W. Gates of Chicago and T. D. Sullivan of New York for his track, ne seeks to have the business men of Venice subscribe 0,000. The fact, however, that the Pacific Coast Jockey Club would never give Brown or the Venice track, if built, a license to race, settle the matter, though Brown, verbally, refuses to go to the funeral. New York, September 23. Big Tim Sullivan said yesterday that he had not invested a dollar in the proposed race track near Los Angeles promoted, by "Curley" Brown.
