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• LIVE UP TO DAYLIGHT SAVING LAW Manager Hachmeister Announces Starting Time for Douglas Park and Latonia Tracks. Cincinnati. O.. April 16. — Conforming both to the spirit and the letter of the daylight saving law. General Manager John Hachnicister of the Latonia and Douglas Park tracks, announced today that the hour for the running of the opening race each afternoon during the approaching season of spring and summer racing at the two tracks mentioned will be 2:30 oclock. This will correspond to 1:30 oclock under the old time arrangement, which the new daylight saving schedule has temporarily supplanted. Inder the new schedule the time for the running of the seven races that will make up the daily program at the tracks named, will be like this: First race. 2:30; second race. 3:00: third race. 3:30; fourth race. 1:00: fifth race, 4:30: sixth race. 5:00; seventh race. 5:30. The racing program will thus In completed each afternoon at an hour corresponding to 4:30 oclock under the former time schedule, which will leave patrons of the track some three or four hours of daylight to devote to their war gardens or to such other purposes as they may elect. In arranging the program for the racing each day. Manager Hachmeister pneioses to run tlie most important races of the day towards the end of the program, so that those who may be unable to reach the track in the early part of the afternoon, can go to the course as late as four oclock and still be sure of enjoying the principal races of the day.
