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SANTA ANITA PARK IS ITS NAME. New Track at Arcadia Named After "Lucky" Baldwins Famous Ranch. Los Angeles, Cal., November 11. There will be no meeting at Ascot this winter. This can be set down as established. George Rose, who owns the controlling interest in Ascot, has made this announcement and as lie holds a large interest in the new track at Santa Anita, lie ought to kiiow. Even should the Supreme Court decide the annexation of Ascot Park to bo invalid, Ascots gates will remain closed for this winter, at least, and the Baldwin track will have the field clear. If additional proof of this was needed it is only necessary to state that several of Ascots stakes have been transferred and will be run off at the new track. The Rose Selling Stakes and the Los Angeles Derby are the principal events, the latter taking the place of the Ascot Derby. All of the stakes "will have an increased value over that of Ascot, notably the California Handicap, with a guaranteed value of ,500, which is an increase of ,500 and the Los Angeles Derby, with a guaranteed value of ,000, an increase of ,000. The Rose Selling Stakes is worth ,000 and the total value of the stakes will amount to over 2,-000, a big increase over that offered at Ascot. The management is holding out better inducements to. the horsemen in the way of increased purses and increased value in the different stakes. The work has so far advanced at the new track, which will be officially designated Santa Anita Park, that the promoters can now at last guarantee that the initial . meeting will surely begin as promised on Thanksgiving Day, November 2S. The track proper is in such an advanced state that the horses quartered at Ascot awaiting the completion of the new track, will be moved over in a few days and trainers will be allowed to gallop their horses over it at least ten days before the opening day. The grandstand will not be completed in time, but the work will be rushed and seating room will be provided for the race-goers. The status of the Venice proposition as far as it has progressed is that "Curley" Brown came to Los Angeles about two mouths ago with the statement that lie had 50,000 of eastern money back of him and showed checks purporting to come from J. W. Gates, "Tim" Sullivan and another man of means and that, provided the local people raised 0,000 more, work would be started at once on the proposed plant. When it came to the issue after the local people had subscribed the amount asked for. Brown failed to make good and, accord ing to all reports, the checks proved fictitious. Since then Brown has tried in vain to raise a sulli cient amount to carry through his project and for the present the matter lias been entirely dropped except that he lias an option on a suitable tract of land about three miles from Venice. Charles A. Bergin.
