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Plan Two Meetings at Hawthorne Next Year At a meeting of the Illinois Jockey Club, held Friday night in their headquarters in the Garrick Theater building, an election of officers was held and plans for next year were tentatively arranged. Practically all the present officers were re-elected, with W. O. Duntley president, Thomas E. Bourke secretary and general manager and August J. Fasking vice-president. Twenty-one days of racing, beginning Saturday, May 19, and ending Saturday, June 9, was practically settled for Hawthorne race track under the supervision of the club. Prominent members of the organization have pledged 00,000 for improvements, landscape work and gardening that will beautify the track, so that it will compare with some ! of the best in the country. At the head of the finance committee and one of its active workers is Charles Levy, a prominent business man and a representative of a coterie of business men l-eady to back the future plans for Hawthorne for an unlimited amount of capital. A fall meeting, beginning Saturday, September 22, and carried on for twenty-one days, will also probably be arranged.
