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WHEELING RACING TODAY Prospects Very Bright for Most Successful Fall. Meeting Program Promises Good Sport. WHEELING, W. Va., Oct. 23. From present indications the initial autumn meeting of the Wheeling Driving Club will be inaugurated at the Island Course tomorrow under favorable conditions. The track today is in good condition and weather outlook most promising. For the opening day program seven well filled races promise some interesting sport. The most pretentious offering is the mile and an eighth of the fifth race in which Puzzle Top Rung, My Lorraine, La Kross, Chandelier and W. M. Baker are named to start It should provide a contest well worth seeing. The sixth race at a mile and seventy yards is also expected to furnish a rattling good contest With the arrival from the Akron, Ohio, track of two special trains, carrying over three hundred thoroughbreds, there will be no scarcity of racing material. In fact stable room is already at a premium. The majority of tho riders who performed at the Northampton Park meeting are already on the scene. As a result of the unfortunate shooting on Saturday at Akron, Judges F. W. Gerhardy and P. E. Callen, who were engaged to serve during this meeting will be among the missing, but the management has wired for two other competent judges to take the places of the victims, who are reported to be progressing favorably toward recovery. Lester Dean, the promising young starter, will dispatch the fields. Wheeling may boast of having one of the finest half mile tracks in this country and the local people are very enthusiastic over the sport
