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HAVANA MEETING CERTAIN President Thomas Monahan Says Racing in Cuba Begins Nov. 29. Program Book in Hands of Printer Oriental Park Ready and Conditions on Island Reported Prosperous. NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 31. Thomas Monahan, president of the Cuba-American Jockey and Auto Club, announced through general manager Frank J. Bruen that the 100-day race meeting at beautiful Oriental Park, Havana, would positively open on Thanksgiving day, Thursday, November 29, and that stories which had been circulated to the contrary were both malicious and misleading. In an interview with several newspapermen, Frank Bruen said : "The condition books of our meeting are in the printers hands and will be ready for distribution next week. The club will make a daily distribution of ,000 to the purses and the program will be made up of at least six races a day. 00 Avill be the smallest amount added to any purse and there will be handicaps of from ,000 to ,500. "Oriental Park never looked more beautiful," said Mr. Bruen, who returned from Havana only a few days ago. "We have a force of sixty men at work on the plant for the last two weeks getting everything in readiness and when I left Cuba the plant was in complete order, and if necessary we could open the meeting tomorrow. I found conditions very prosperous on the island; in fact, business conditions are better now than at any time since I have been going to Cuba. Everyone appears to have plenty of money, and you know what good spenders they are when times are good. When I tell you that no less than twenty different parties asked me to look for available material for them to participate in our racing you can readily see that things are prosperous. There is much enthusiasm in Havana over our approaching meeting and I look for the greatest racing season we have ever had." Mr. Bruen has arranged for a swing around the racing circuit and in his travels will visit Huntington, Wheeling, Baltimore and Cincinnati. William Shelley, who has succeeded Martin Nathanson as racing secretary, has arranged to leave for Cuba some day next week. Several of his staff are already on the grounds looking after the detail work which comes before the opening of a big winter race meeting. Arrangements have been completed and cars reserved for the various race specials that are scheduled to pull out of different points in the States for Oriental Park within the next week or ten days. The first special Continued on twelfth page. J HAVANA MEETING CERTAIN Continued from first page. Sidney Bender, James McLaughlin and Frank Taylor are receiving applications for space on this train. It Avill be made of three-door to leave Avill be the Empire special, Avhich Avill be loaded at the Empire track on Friday, steel express cars Avith Pullman and diner attached. At Laurel three more cars with part of the Maryland delegation will be attached to the train which Avill be run from Washington direct to the Oriental Park chute as a special. This consignment Avill be made up of the horses OAvned by W. R. Coe, Oneck Stable, Florida Stable, McDonald and Walker, Frank M. Bray Avith a division of the Lilane Stable and several Avhich Avill carry the colors of Thomas Monohan, W. H. Chambers, Harry Richards, P. Perroni, H. Kearney, W. C. Daly, Jr., A. J. Bedell, Roger Minton, C. Oest, C. Carrigan, G. W. Smith, H. J. Kennedy, B. B. Rice, Thomas Doyle, Edward F. Whitney, E. Rathman and John Pangle. Another special Avill leave Maryland at the conclusion of the Pimlico meeting and James Milton is looking after this shipment. Charles Lans-dale is attending to the shipment from Latonia and he sends AAord that the Kentucky delegation will be larger than eArer this year. Frank Baccioco has .receiAed applications from seAeral prominent eastern layers to book at Oriental Park during the winter. Both systems of speculation will again be in operation, mutuels and books, and William Mahcr is at Oriental Park at present straightening out details in his department. When Mr. Bruen arrires at Latonia he Avill make public the complete list of officials. William Shelley will be the racing secretary and James Milton will do the starting. There will be several new faces in the official family at Oriental Park this year and the club is making a strenuous effort to obtain the best men available for the different positions. i i ! . ; . ; .
