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DELMAR RACE TRACK TO BE CUT UP. Last of St. Louis Tracks to Be Developed for Residential Purposes. St. Louis, Mo., Jnne 22. — Delmar race track will shortly be cut up into building lots if a deal now peuding is put through. Negotiations are on lietween a company of local capitalists and the Cella-Adler-TiB.es interests, which built the track and own the property, by which the race track property will become an addition to the Parkview section of St. Louis. All tlie buildings on the Delmar groqnds will be removed and the tract will be graded and drained in tin- same manner adopted in the development of Parkview. Witli the passing of Delmar track, the last relic of the oid racing regime in St. Louis will disappear. The old Fair Grounds track has long been "out of business." and Kinloch. iu St. Louis County, has gone the way of the Fair Grounds. The Delmar track was built in 1000 by the Cells -Adler-Tilles interests to compete with the Fair Grounds track, which was getting the cream of the lacing patronage. For some time the Delmar track was unable to get racing dates from the Western Jockey Club, so the Delmar people bought the Fair Grounds track. Their interest then controlled the Western Jockey Club, and the process of "freezing out" the Kinloch Hack began. No dates were given the Kiuloch people and for a time the Delmar track had things its own way. Then came the anti-racing bill under the Folk reform regime, ami t hat sounded the death knell of Debater, Fair Grounds and Kiuloch tracks.
