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DEVONSHIRE PARKS SECOND MEETING. Will Be Held from Juno 9 to June 16 Because Train Service Later Would Be Almost Impossible. Winosi.r. Oat., May 34. lMreawhln Park will have eomplete.l bath if its meetings before I it hit of the other two tracks in Winds.ir puts a bane on its .rounds this year. At a BMMtiag of the Beard of directors of the Westera Kacinu Aswx-iation op- eratiBg: Devonshire Park, in the Hotel fuller. Monday afternoon, it was definitely derided to hold the next seven day BMC Hag June 9 to .lime lti, inclusive. When the curtain was runir down on last week: affair it was deemed advisable to name .lime : to duly 7 as the dates, hut investigation led to tie- in formation that it weald he almost impossjhlo fi get train service thai week, and without it Devonshire niipht just as will keep it, gates closed. Transportation facilities for the dates finally so larked w"re arranged ami work was begaaj to enlist the aid of the horsemen for the final week. A good many of the stahles that raced at Devonshire last week still are there, a measure they adopted to await the result of the meeting Monday. Ka-h racing association licensed to conduct the thoroughbred sport in Ontario la privileged to held two meetings of seven days each a year providing twenty days elapses between the meetings. Devonshire didnt lose much time. Itetween the time the first meeting closed and the second opens just twenty-one days will have elapsed. Ionditions governing the second meeting will be similar to those of the initial, a handicap eaeh day in addition to a half dozen overnight races of the same value that was given before. This means that close to 11,000 will be distributed to the horsemen. or a sum of $"..100 daily, including the handicap feuture of ,000.
