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BUSY AT HAWTHORNE Real Activity in Preparing for the Coming Meeting. Stalls for Three Hundred Horses Now Ready and Repairs in Progress on Grandstand. With the opening day at Hawthorne Park almost at hand the Illinois Jockey Club is accomplishing what many felt would be an impossibility. The plant had virtually been forgotten as a race course until a few weeks ago, when it was leased by the Jockey Club for a meeting to begin September 30 and continue for twelve days. A representative from the Dally Racing Form visited the " plant yesterday. The grandstand is rapidly being overhauled and stableroom for 300 horses is now ready. The club has three motor tractors on the ground and the track superintendent and a force of men will start to bank up and grade the main track Tuesday morning. Several prominent horsemen have had representatives in Chicago and arrangements have been made to ship some of the best racing material to Hawthorne from the various other tracks that close between now and the opening day at Hawthorne. Secretary T. E. Bourke and associate judge Charles Essig are schooling a staff of clerks at the Jockey Club headquarters with the view of having the entire system working like clockwork before the meeting opens. Several hundred race fans motored to the Hawthorne track Sunday and all were amazed at the progress being made in such a short time by the club.
