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TANFORANS SPRING MEETING Pacific Coast Jockey Club to Meet Today to Ratify Dates and Announce Program. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.. Feb. 13. Unavoidable absence of members of the directorate of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club caused a postponement from Friday of last week until tomorrow, Thursday, February 14, of the annual meeting of the executive committee of the club. This will interfere in no way with the spring meeting, that is scheduled to take place from April 26 to May 18, inclusive. These dates have virtually been agreed upon and there is no more to be done than a formal acceptance. Members of the executive committee, including A. B. Spreckels, Rudolph Spreckels and Herbert Fleishhacker, will gather tomorrow to ratify the dates, to pass ur;on the racing program and to further lay plans fcr the twenty days of racing that will be held. "I have my whole program laid out," said John D. Stelling, general manager of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club, "and the only thing that remains is to lay it before the members of the executive committee for their ratification and approval. "I am convinced that we will be able to offer a far better meeting in the spring than wo did in the fall, and that we will secure a far better attendance. I am not at present at liberty to disclose our contemplated program, but I can assure the racing fans that it will meet their commendation." . As -soon as the executive committee holds its meeting general manager Stelling expects to pay a visit to the Tijuana course, when he will confer with horsemen as regards sta-l.Ie accommodations for the meeting in the spring. The Pacific Coast Jockey Club has secured from the printer advance booklets eommemo-lative of the first meeting that was held last November. It is a handsome piece of work, profusely illustrated with halftones of officials of the Jockey Club, directors of the organization who have made racing possible1 and-racing scenes taken at San Bruno, where J j the Tanforan track is located. There is an introductory article on the .Tanforan course, in which is told the story of. this new venture, and articles as well that! are descriptive of the Napa Stock Farm, the Elmwood Stock Farm, the Kelley Ranch, the Heather Farm, the Mira Monte Stock Farm and-the Meadowbrook Farm. This book was published under the supervision of Howard Spreckels, secretary of the: Pacific Coast Jockey Club and is a credit to him indeed. j Some 250 copies are to be bound in leather, and distributed among the various racing as-! sociations of the country. Stockholders of Tanforan will also, in due time, receive copies 1 of the booklet. .
