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PLANS FOR NEW CHARLESTON TRACK. Manager Pens Planning to Make South Carolina Course One of the Show Places of the South. Baltimore, Md., October 23. Horsemen are jubilant over the announcement of a race meeting at Charleston, S. C, commencing January 10, 1912, which will render it unnecessary, for them to leave the United States this coming winttr to race. The meeting will continue for seventy-live days. P. J. Pons of Jacksonville, Fla., who is largely interested in the race track at that place, is tne promoter of the new meeting and will be the general mauager. It will be conducted under the auspices of the Charleston Jockey Club. Local business men of Charleston have subscribed for 70 per cent of the stock, so the ftaturo of outside capital lias virtually been eliminated. Mr. Pons intends giving away 50,000 in stakes and purses. The stakes will be twenty in number, ranging in value from ,000 to ,500; no overnight purse will be of less value than 00, and there will be handicaps of 1911.sh00 and SSOO. W. F. Sehu.te of Louisville will be assistant manager. Mr. Schulte was at one time president of the Louisville Joek?y Club. Charleston is one of the most accessible of cities by either rail or boat, and this feature will be appreciated by the race-going public of the large cities of the north, who do not wish to be deprived of their favorite pastime even iu winter. The ho tels of Charleston are commodious and some famous resorts are within convenient riding distance of the track. The track will bo located five miles from the city and within twenty minutes ride ou a double track trolley system, which will carry the racegoers to and from the track. The roads are among the best in the country and the locality abounds In beautiful automobile drives. The list of officials will be prominent men in the racing world and as soon as Mr. Pons has all their acceptances, their names will be published. Stake blanks are in the hands of the printer aud will be given to the horsemen shortly. The track will be one mile in circumference with a seven-eighths and mile chutes, so that races need not lie started on the turns. The club house which will, be built on the course, will be modelled after the famous ones of the Eastern tracks, and the society folks who make Aiken and other nearby resorts their homes will have an Additional attraction to add to their winters enjoy? ment. It is Mr. Pons intentioa.to. make the Charleston Jockey Club grounds oneiOf . the -show peaces of-the .south and he has already C0lls"nlted a. famous land-Scape gardener in reference to laying out llower beds and shrubbery. The grandstand will bo situated on a liill in a natural park with sloping lawns, surrounded by beautiful palmetto trees for which South Curoliua is noted. The secretarys office and jockeys quarters will be in scparato buildings, in the center of a large paddock. Horsemen, if it is their wish, "may saddle their horses under the trees as is the custom at Saratoga and Belmont Park..
