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DADE PARKS OPENING a Ai Green River Jockey Clubs Fall Meeting Begins Today. HI His Plant Not Entirely Completed Track Itself a Wonder Good Inaugural Day Program. wj we in iu is IS 7. The to to EVANSVILLE. Ind., November land Creen River Jockey Club will inaugurate its sc meeting tomorrow at Dade ten days race Park. It is an experimental proposition in iia these parts, but the management is chock- in in full of confidence that success will attend the us as venture. The racing plant will in time be a pre- CtI tuitions one if the aim of the builders is br carried out in its entirety. At present it is a a crude and incomplete. n The grandstand is not adaptable should the re weather become blustry, and it is lacking in o facilities such as racing patrons are used to G on other Kentucky tracks. J" ing At present ideal weather prevails and about O Or; r.00 horses are available for the racing. They S include some fairly good ones that were shipped here from Latonia at the close of the a a racing there and detoured here on their way d to New Orleans. ni as The track proper is the best racing strip i bi in Kentucky. It has a width of 100 feet tl in the front stretch and is a mile and an i fc for eighth in length. x Lack of stabling facilities is responsible b; for the shortage of horses. Some of the sta- . II It bks are still under construction and being r w rushed to completion by the employment of t o extra forces of carpenters. The main portion of the racing colony that t t to will hold forth here were arrivals during r a at the night and this morning. The late comers E included the entire staff of officials who will 1 serve. BUSY SCENES AT TRACK. All was bustle at the track during the day 7 in an effort to put the plant in presentable e v condition for the opening. The task promised I -to meet with success and with continuous c- a work during the next twenty-four hours it t ? will be in fairly good condition. Headquarters of the racing colony is s j c Evansville, and this thriving Indiana city of lt over 90,000 population seems to have taken J . kindly to the racing project. Tiie main racing patronage is expected from Evansville. ; There will be no scarcity of jockeys. There j ? are as many riders as there are horses at ,t the trac k. Among those who will don silks .s 1 ire : M. Garner, E. Pool, H. Thurber, J. y -Corcoran, J. Owens and others that rode l J with a good deal of success this fall on Kentucky tracks. The stable of W. Perkins was held up at it Latonia pending completion of stai.de room. ,, It is expected that the space necessary for n- 1 the accommodation of his sixteen horses will II 1 ba available tomorrow. Hose Goldblatt, who had intended shipping ig hS own horses and several racing in the le : silks of Harry Payne Whitney, has decided ;d not to come here and will ship his string, g, after a brief rest at Latonia, direct to New w Orleans. For an opening day card secretary Mac-farlan c lias succeeded in bringing out some nc of the better grade here, the Evansville Handicap n- with ?2,000 added serving as the feature. a- It is at a mile and among its probable starters are some good racers. Six other races complete the card and seven races will be the rule here daily. It It has been decided to make post time for the he first race daily 1 :30 p. m., so as to finish sh the program before dark. Practically the same officials that served ed on the other Kentucky tracks, with the exception x- of Charles F. Price in the stewards Is stand and W. M. Shelley in the secretarys fs office, will officiate here. The racing is under in- Kentucky State Racing Commission supervision, iu- the track being located on Kentucky :n- soil. MAXY DIFFICULTIES EXCOUXTKltK I. Starter A. B. Dade, who will send the fields away here and after whom the track was named, arrived this morning and made a complete inspection of the entire plant. "We have labored under a handicap," said Mr. Dade, "and it is fortunate that the race track is completed to the extent that it is. I left here last August and at that time it appeared as if everything would be finished for the autumn meeting, but a scarcity of labor in t is section, as well as numerous other drawbacks, held us up. I can state without fear of contradiction that the track itself is one of the best in the country, and while the public may have to put up with a few inconveniences for a few days, it is not our fault and we ask patience on their part By the time the next meeting rolls around we will have every detail completed and one of the best race tracks in America will greet those Continued on cislith pase. r j f r j 1 1 t i , i j ; 1 i ; DADE PARTS OPENING Continued from first page. who visit it." C. W. Hay, Andrew G. Leonard and Sam C. Nuckols, Jr., who will serve as stewards at the Dade Park meeting, came in this morning. They journeyed to the track and passed upon the applications for stable room from the horsemen here. John McLaughlin, supervisor of the pari-mutuels for the Kentucky State Racing Commission, came in from Lexington, Ky., where ho spent two days after the close of Latonia. W. B. Finnegan, trainer of the W. F. Knebelkamp horses, brought part of his string here, and at the conclusion of the local meeting they will be sent to Havana to join the others which left on the special train from Latonia this morning. Owner Knebelkamp is due tomorrow morning and he will remain for the remainder of the meeting. Jack Hare Jr., owned by T. M. Botts, arrived here from Latonia suffering from a slight fever, but his condition showed improvement today and he will be able to race at an early date. Jockey Mack Garner, who intended to ride here, has changed his plans and departed for New York, from where he will proceed to Maryland and ride the fall season out at Pimlico and Bowie. Tat Gallaher of Louisville, custodian cf the jockeys quarters on the Kentucky Jockey Club tracks, will serve in a similar capacity here. He reports that fifty or more riders will be on hand to accept mounts at the local meeting. Trainer John I. Smith brought the entire PL H. Hewitt stable here. Jockey Danny Connelly will ride for this establishment. Racing secretary Malcolm Macfarlan found it necessary to halt the shipment of several stables from Latonia for several days. All of the stalls here are occupied, but the contractors are rushing a new barn to completion and it will be finished by Saturday. It will accommodate about forty horses. Instead of pari-mutuel machines a totalizator will be used at Dade Park and the amount of tickets sold will be registered at various times on a blackboard. This is the so-called "Bowie system," and it has worked advantageously at several race tracks. Representatives of the Illinois Central Railroad today arranged a special horse train to be run to New Orleans at the close of the local meeting. It will leave the day following the end of the meeting here. Members of the Rotary Club gathered today to listen to the advantages that the City of Evansville will derive from the race meeting at Dade Park. They were addressed by F. H. "Van Orman, state senator of Indiana. The business men of this community are eager for thoroughbred racing and every commercial establishment carries an advertisement of it in the windows.
