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AFTER BUSINESS MANAGER Pacific Coast Jockey Club Seeking Desirable. Man for that Position Membership Grows. SAN FRANCISCO. Cal., December 13. Racing secretary Robert F. Leighton, who will be absent from his office nine days in the Christmas holiday season by permission of the directors of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club, has made gratifying progress in the preparations for the racing at Tanforan. The racing director has made a very favorable impression here and Messrs. A. B. Spreckels, Rudolph Spreckels, Frank J. Kelly and the other moving spirits of the new organization have received congratulations on all sides in bringing him to this city. The serious problem of the selection of a business manager is now under consideration by the directors of the club. The position was offered to George Lafitte, a member of the Rudolph Spreckels organization, but his employer felt he could not part with the young man. The business head, or general manager, as he will be called, will have entire charge of the Tanforan management, aside from the racing itself, of which "Bob" Leighton is the "boss." The club membership list is growing fast, with many of the most influential citizens of the San Francisco bay region promising their support of the racing. j The opening will not come before April, perhaps not until May, and by that time five hundred members probably will have signed the roll. It is expected quite a number of the club members will engage boxes, of which there will be 110. Contractors Grace and Bernieri, lowest bidders for the corvstruction of the grandstand, will begin work in a few days. The architect of the club is working on plans for a clubhouse, which it is expected will cost about 5,000. The grandstand will cost about 20,000.
