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HA WTHORNE TURF NOTES AND OTHER NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST A beautiful young girl in a black silk dress with a lavender jockey cap went through the stand and fields selling pictures of the grand old champion Exterminator. Her supply was exhausted at the first tier of seats. The post time was changed from 2:15 to 2:30 p. m. Tip Toe Inn was the first horse to appear on the course, about thirty minutes before post time, and the enthusiastic ovation awarded him is further evidence of Chicagos eagerness for racing of their own, instead of being forced to travel hundreds of miles to witness the sport of all sports. Judge Joseph A. Murphy, when asked for a statement just before the bugle was sounded for the first race of the afternoon, said: "If there was any doubt whether Chicagoans wanted racing, this afternoons crowd has dissipated it." The following is a list of the boxholders at Hawthorne today: Jefffferson Livingston and party, "Willis Sharpe Kilmer and party, Mrs. Schreiber, secretary to Senator Clark, and party, Judge McDonald and party, General Van Horn Moser, John Connery and party, Van Murray and Party, James Mc-Andrews and party, John Irwin and party, Sam S. "White and party, Charles Head Smith and party, John F. Barrett and party, George Barrett and party, Harry C. Moir and party, Charles "Weeghman and party, Mart Shanks and party, John Burke and party, John Mack and party, Colonel Clifford Game and party, Lieutenant Hunsicker and party, U. J. Herr-man and party, Aaron Jones and party, F. Montifiere Stein and party, Aaron Strauss and party, "W. O. Duntley and party. The carpenters finished the last touch on the judges stand and press box at noon and took their usual half holiday, many of them even too exhausted to accept the courtesy of the offer of the Jockey Club to remain in the park for the opening days racing. The past twenty-fcur hours a continuous shift of laborers and carpenters have been on duty at the old Hawthorne plant-People who journeyed to Hawthorne a week ago and viewed the plant in the condition it was in at that time expressed the opinion that it would be an impossibility to have the place in condition for yesterdays racing. However, the Illinois Jockey Club worked the problem in such a manner that the place is an entirely new one. General Mosher, commander of the Sixth Aerial Corps of thf U. S. A., presented the silver cup to "Willis Sharpe Kilmer, owner of Exterminator.
