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AURORA SPRING MEETING NOW A CERTAINTY ♦ Newly Organized Exposition Park Jockey Club Assumes Full Control » Reach Amicable Settlement with Charles Ford and Avert Threatened Court Action — List of Racing Officials Announced « AURORA, 111., May 2. — With the closing of a deal by which the interests of Charles Ford of Chicago and his associates in the Fox Valley Jockey Club, which has conducted racing for two years at Aurora, are taken over by the newly organized and financed Exposition Park Jockey Club, plans for the spring meeting at Exposition Park, Aurora, June 4 to 27 inclusive, were made public by Clifford R. Trimble, general manager of the new organization. Included in his announcement are the names of the officials for the meeting and the statement that reservations have already been made for more than eight hundred thoroughbreds. Final agreement between Ford and the officials of the new association was entered into at a conference of Edward L. Lyon of Aurora, attorney for the Central States Fair and Exposition, owners of the race track property, and Attorney Charles H. Soelke of Chicago, counsel for Ford. "Under the terms of the agreement," Attorney Lyon said, "the Exposition Park Jockey Club is taking over all accounts and indebtedness of the Fox Valley Jockey Club, relieving the latter association. Mr. Ford and his association, of all responsibility and liability. The new association is financed on a sound basis and is composed of men of high standing, who have gone about the reorganization in a manner that assures a banner meeting at Exposition Park this spring." "My client, Mr. Ford, is perfectly satisfied with the settlement and we join in wishing the new associtaion success in the coming meeting," Attorney Soelke said following the conference. START WORK TODAY. Work will be started Monday, general manager Trimble announced, on the building of additional stalls to care for the great influx of horses between now and the opening day of the meeting. Requests for stall room have been received from, various parts of the country. A special train of ten cars will leave Tijuana next Wednesday for Aurora. A considerable number of horses are already at the Aurora track in training for the ap-I proaching meeting. Daily purses will range from 00 to ,500, with six races daily, except Saturday, when there will be seven, Mr. Trimble said. On all days but Saturday there will be two 00 purses, three 00 and one ,000 handicap. The Saturday program calls for two 00 races, four 00 purses and a ,500 handicap, making a total of 25,000 in purse offerings for the meeting. The program book will be ready for distribution about May 6. The following officials for the meeting have been announced by Mr. Trimble: Stewards, Herman Conkling, J. F. Monck arid Malcom Macfarlan; judges, Francis Dunne, Charles Campau and Arthur Blan-chard; racing secretary, M. N. Macfarlan; starter, Harry Morrissey; clerk of the scales, Arthur Blanchard; paddock judge, Charles Campau; patrol judges, William Doyle and William Martin; timer, James Thompson; veterinarians. A. M. Henderson, V. S., and W. B. Lane, V. S. With all doubts removed regarding the holding of the spring meeting it is expected that many horsemen who had refrained from sending in their applications, will do sft immediately and there is every reason to believe that all the available stable room will be spokeh for long before the meeting opens.
