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AKRON MEETING SUCCESSFUL Promoters Plan Improvements for Next Year, Including Addition to Present Grand Stand. AKRON, Ohio, Oct. 22. The nineteen day Inaugural meeting of the New Akron Racing Association came to a most auspicious conclusion Saturday afternoon at the newly constructed North Hampton Park course. Judging from the encouraging success of the recent meeting, horse racing in this locality has once more been placed upon a sound substantial basis. In fact. North Hampton Park promises to become the center of thoroughbred racing activities in the state of Ohio during the coming year. As a result of the good racing which has been conducted under the most exacting rules of the turf during the current meeting, the "daily patronage of fans has increased to such an extent that the management is now contemplating the construction of an addition to the present spacious steel grand stand which now graces the stretch, in order to take care of the anticipated crowds of next year. A number of additions to the present improvements of the new plant will be made during the winter months, including the erection of several more stables, a cooling out shed, a new paddock and jockeys room, and a number of other appointments that will make the course complete in every detail. In addition to these improvements, an expert landscape architect has been engaged to begin, immediately following the conclusion of the present meeting, to beautify the grounds with lawns, shrubs, trees and plants of various description. Practically all of the large number of thoroughbreds engaged in racing here, numbering in the neighborhood of four hundred, will be shipped to Wheeling, West Virginia, aboard a special horse train leaving here tomorrow afternoon. The meeting at Wheeling, which is scheduled to open Wednesday, October 24th, Avill continue for a period of ten or more days.
