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NEW TRACK FOR CHICAGO Chicago Business Mens Racing Association Purchases Ground to Erect Palatial Race Course. Chicago is to have its Belmont Park. This was assured yesterday when the Chicago Business Mtiis Ilacing Association announced that it had purchased from Messrs. Lyman it McCarthy one hundred and sixty-two 162 acres of gri und in the Township of Worth at the corner of 95th Street and Crawford Avenue, and that it was formulating plans for the financing and huilding of the most pn-tentious ra ■ tr.uk v -st of N»-w York. It also announced that the Chicago Business Mens Racing Association which operates the Hawthorne rate trark has expanded its organization so as to include a number of prominent local capitalists, including Joseph Trinz, ;. Frank Croissant, John GL Sehank. Herbert I. Shimp. Charlt s Krutckoff. Thomas Mdlale, EL GL McKay. Mark Shanks and others. The new property is id* -ally situated, the main line of the Wabash Railroad to St. Louis running thn-ugh the property. In addition to Nth street on the BSSSth and Crawford avenue on the east, plans for paving which art* already under way, the new highway running southwest along the right of way of th-- Wabash also -11ns through the property. and from Western Avenue all of the arteries north, t ast and south can distribute people to various parts of the city. Joseph A. Murphy, president of the Busi-ne.ss Mens Rai mg AflaMM iatijn, yesterday outlined its plans and policies. "We shall « aSMSSVOf to bring all of the decent Interest! of Chicago Into one organisation so as to avoid b multiplicity of tracks and to Ineon k • pins racing within proper bounds. e have p« rrsasvdti d Mr. Croianaat to oonande into our orsanlaatlon Instead at m -lag In* pend ntly v. tth bis am a group of friends and w have already made overtaxes to other Interests whJ ii have been contemplating establishing a race traek either on ■Jit v.. si I r i. "Mb side. YV l„ h. .- sixty ■tars of racing sufficient for Chi igo sad with liawth.nie f-ir a Short Spring and fall ! nu ting, and oar ttt m race track tor the een- I ter setting, vre think we hsvi covered the field complete!] 1 1 I will enable Aarora to five it-; BSM rt in • liiiL-, B] nn-r aid fall, Without ruinous competition and will also keep faith . with th" baseball inter- ste with which we have a gentlemen*! agreement to men only ■ Horn July 1 to Labor Day «-* each year.
