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; ; PUTTING PALMETTO PARK IN READINESS. Preparations Progressing for Thirty-Days Meeting at Charleston in December. Charleston, S. C, October 31. General Manager Fred Auerbach of the Charleston Fair and Raciug Association was hero all week superintending the fitting up of Palmetto Park, for racing purposed. There was but little to do on the plant, as it is lit as good condition as the day it was opened three years ago. Several minor improvements which will mean much to the horsemen have been proposed and Mr. -Auerbach. has been here starting the work on them. He is sanguine that the coming meeting here will be the best held since racing was revived in this quaiut city in 1912. The meeting this year will commence on Wednesday, December 2, and continue for about one month, it being the plan to close in time to allow the horsemen to ship to Havana and New Orleans for tlie race meetings at those points. Assurances have been received from many who had a part in last winters meeting that they will be here for the opening on December 2. The live stakes offered by the management are quite enough to induce horsemen to bring their best racing material. Charleston is a logical stopping off place for those who plan to go to Havana. To ship fronr New York, Baltimore or Cincinnati direct to Cuba would mean to practically throw tlie horses out of training. If they can be shipped to Charleston, which is less than thirty hours run from either, point, the horses need not be thrown out of train-lug and they will in addition become acclimafed, as the climate in this vicinity is more like that at Havana. Word has leen received from Latonia that a special train of at least twelve to fifteen carloads of horses will leave that track on November 10 liound for Palmetto Park. The Havre do race meeting does not close until November 30. A special will leave there that night and arrive in Charleston by December 2, the day the meeting begins. Manager Auerbach has received assurances that there will be from twenty to twenty-five bookmakers in line on the opening day. All the big bookmakers intend to take a fling at the game in Cuba this winter1 and they will come here en route. It is likely the meeting will be better patronized locally than any preceding it, in view of its brevity as compared with previous meetings. The only real winter weather which makes its appearance in these parts comes after January. The month of December carries with it ideal weather in which to race, so the horsemen" wTU not experience any sudden changes of temperature while here this seaspt,lvnTihie.lijiye stakes offered by the management: ate; v V - Argyle Hotel Selling Stakes, l,2ksuarflnteeu, for all ages, six furlongs; to be run Saturday, December 5. St. John Hotel Selling Stakes, ,200 guaranteed, for two-year-olds, five and a half furlongs; to bo run Saturday, December 12. Charleston Hotel Selling Stakes, ,200 guaranteed, for all ages, one mile and seventy yards; to be run Saturday, December 19.- Christinas Handicap, ,500 guaranteed, for all ages, one mile; to be run Friday, December 25. New Year Handicap, ,500 guaranteed, for all ages, one mile and an eighth; to be run Friday, January 1. Entries to all these stakes will close on Saturday, November 7. Joseph McLennan will receive entries at Pimlico and Frank Brnen will act in the same capacity at Latonia. The meeting is given under sanction from the Jockey Club and its officials have been anproved bv that body. The officials are: Stewards, C. H. Pet-tingill, J. B. Campbell and M. Nathauson; judges, W. F. Schulte and Joseph McLennan; racing secre-tar.v, M. Nathanson; clerk of the conrse. Joseph McLennan: starter, James Milton; paddock judge, G. E. Hall; Auditor. Frank J. Bruen.
