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HORSEMEN DEPART FROM GRAND RAPIDS. Many Owners Anxious to Secure. Accommodations at Windsor Track for Saturdays Opening. Grand Rapids, Mich., July 12. Owners at Corn-stock Park today were making hurried plans for departures, most of them being eager to secure accommodations, for their horses at the Windsor Jockey Clubs track, where racing begins Saturday for a period of seven days. The congested aspect of that plant with good racers, will afford but seunt opportunity for the owners here to find stall accommodation there, but many will be quartered at the Devonshire and Kenilworth Park tracks. A majority of the horsemen, anticipating a meeting in Chicago, had planned to ship their horses to Hawthorne, but the news that the contemplated meeting in Chicago had been abandoned, was a stunner. . . . On top of this came the disquieting news that the Thorncliffe Park meeting, which was scheduled to open July 24 and race until July 31, had been put under the ban by the Thoroughbred norse Association. The latter phase is not well received by the owners here, for they contend that existing circumstances would warrant a revocation of the pact made last year. That a number of the. owners here will ship to Thorncliile, regardless of the ban edict, is quite certain. Obligations to the horsemen were liquidated in full today by the management through Herman S. Conkling, who paid to owners purses and fees to jockeys. . , , , Joseph A. Murphy will remain here several days winding up affairs and then, go on to Detroit for a brief visit. Herman Conkling will go to Toronto, and starter Snyder left last night for Detroit, where lie will rejoin starter Dade and act as his chief assistant.
