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I 1 r I . . . " ; j . [ j [. • j ALL READY FOR TIIE START HOT SPRINGS CROWDED AND 0AKXAWN TRACK IN PRIME CONDITION. MayOx HcClendon Proclaims Saturday a Holiday So That Everybody May View the Horses in Action, Hot Springs. Ark.. March P.— The coining meeting at Oahlawn has Hot SiiiKs and its vicinity highly excited. The citizens of this famous watering place are babbling over like the springs that are so abundant here. Brass bands greeted the host of turdtes upon their arrival by special train this morning. The dm at the depots was deafening ami the welcome was sincere. In every hand I is manifested enthusiasm for the sport and conviction that the meeting will he a great success. I The manifestations of joy that racing will again [ form one of the features here, is not confined to Ihc citizens alone, for strangers are flocking from 1 every direction for the opening. At no time, since , the enactment of the Amis law. which put a quietus on the sport at Oakla-.vn. has there been I so many strangers in town, ami each train is car-1 rying extra equipment to accommodate the influx. 1 The racing germ has pervaded every nook and , corner and that the sport has the approval of the , municipal authorities is attested by Mayor Mc- 1 Clemh ns pi lamatinu. which is a- follows: ; Whereas, the racing to be conducted in Hot I Springs will he under the direct supervision and j direction id the Business Mens League, and we. 1 I hereby, have a guarantee that it will be conducted i in a most sportsmanlike manner: therefore I. J. j W. Mcthndon. mayor of Hot Springs, hereby ; issue the following proclamation: "That on Sat-I unlay. March 11. between the hours of 1 and 5 j p. m.. the business houses generally of this city : shall close their doors, thereby gaining an opportunity for themselves and employees to attend the opening of Oaklawn track and. by so doing, join with the Business Mens league in making for the opening of this race meeting such a success as j will l.-ave no denial of the fact now so plainly evident in this ciry that racing as a feature of entertainment fir our visitors is a most important essential to our complete success and prosperity as a health and pleasure resort." A trip to "Oaklawn would suggest that the course had been closed only since yesterday instead of a period stretching over nine years. Everything is shipshape at this m dern and costly plant, with Hie track itself in the best possible order. Willi the arrival of the special horse trains from New Orleans this morning the horses at the course total well over the 306 mark ami more are coining daily. Recent arrivals with their horses from Juarez Include II. L. Craine, Daniels and Hodges. R. I*. Dicker-son, E J. OConnell. F. Borland. A. M. Eggers and F. T. Short. ill. From California came S. M. Neil. J. 1. Bussey. C. W. Casser and J. J. Timmerman. T. Podge came from the recently closed San Antonio track. From Cuba came W. C. V.eant, R. J. Bowers, J. J. Russell and B. Mitchell. The big consignment that came fr an New Orleans included the hor c- of I ,. .1. Br ckmiller, R. I.. Baker. G. F. Blackford. J. W. Schorr, F. W. Moore. B. M. Civil!. J. C. Calm. F. B. Flkii-. W. II. Fixer. G. M. Hennessy. M. L.wcnstein, G. II. Marlman. W. Martin. II. S. Newman, J. B. Bespess, A. L. Kirby, G. W. Scott. W. I. Spiers, F. Sheridan. A. Vail. J Lowe, C. W. Clark, A. G. Woodman, C. T. Worthington, W. V. Walsh, R. F. Watkin- and J. J. Markloin. Tlie Jockeys now on the ground include . Van Itmen. I.. Gentry, W. Gourley, J. Metcalf. W. Obert, W. Warrington, F. Cooper, I". Rough. T. Henry. I. Stirling. F. MeEwen, I. Murphy and 1". Adams. It required twenty tive Pullman cars to convey the passengers from New Orleans that arrive,] |,V special train this in irning. Another big delegation arrived this afternoon and more are due tomorrow. Many notables in the turf world were among the arrivals, including Max Frank. Leo Mayer. Tiffany Woolfgang, John Lewis, Gene Austin. William Cabin and at least fifty others, who were conspicuous during tlie New Orleans meeting. Presiding judge -I. It. Campbell and his staff of assistants lane their various departments in up-to-date order. It is only a matter of getting entries and calling the horse-" to ihc post to start, of what gives every indication f being a highly successful meeting.
