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LONG SEASON FOR LOS ANGELES. If Court Decision Favors Ascot Two Tracks Will Be in Use. Los Angeles, Cal., September 30. In the bustle of getting the new track at Arcadia starled, one point has be"ii overlooked. If the. soon-to-eoino court decision should be in favor of Ascot Park, it will be operated this fall, and in any event an agreement may be reached with the Los Angeles authorities by wliich it can be used for thirty days in late November and December, while the Arcadia establishment is being properly finished. Hose says that he is advised that the Ascot case will be decided in the Supreme Court next month and in the event that the decision is favorable to racing interests, a meeting will be held there beginning Thanksgiving Day and continuing late in the winter, to lie succeeded by a meeting at Ar-ad!a. Even if the decision should be favorable, work will not be stopped at Arcadia, but more elaborate plan will be put into execution at once. The winter meeting that is now scheduled for Arcadia will titii at Ascot and run indefinitely, while contractor Allen would not be put to the necessity of working day and night crews to complete the hieing plant at Santa Anita Park. This arrangement would permit ail imptovenients at Arcadia to be of permanent nature, including the steel grandstand and clubhouse, while, if the decision is unfavorable, the Santa Anita Park meeting will begin as scheduled and will run ninety days or more. Favorable decision would not materially affect plami for the winter meeting this year, but next year there would be two winter meetings in this vicinity. Ascot would get dates and so would Santa Anita Park, making the winter season extend probably from November 1 to about May 15. This is the bore of Hose and as he is interested in both tracks and President Tom Williams is agreeable to such a plan, there would be no contlict of authority or the slightest rivalry between the two racing associations. Should the courts decide that the annexation election was illegal and not binding, the Asiot stockholders would be able to continue their winter meetings and the investment in the plant would be valuable, whereas it now is worthless, from a viewpoint of profit from racing. It practically is settled that the following will serve as the first set of directors of the Los Angeles Hacing Association: George Hose. Barney Schreiber, "Lucky" Baldwin. .Melville Lawrence, H. A. Unruh, John Brink and Colonel A. W. Ham-Hilton. Thiisc- mimofEdiuve- been agreed upon and they will form the directorate that wilf be in charge of affairs of the racing association. "Lucky" Baldwin will be the president, that already having been agreed upon.
