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~ a 11 and w at i be , to , " n o f . . * . " Sl r " of a " ° * I1 b be MAPLE HEIGHTS CHANGES Alterations Eliminate Sharp Turns — Distance of Track About 100 Feet Less Than a Mile. CHHYHLAND. Ohio. April 12. — Owners who race their horses at the coining meeting Maple Heig.its. in this city, will surel pleased with the changes that have been made in the track proper. As is well known, the course was a most difficult one race on because of the three elbows which were the sharpest sort of turns. These have been entirely eliminated and the alterations bare niad - the track as safe as a race course can possibly be, unless it is perfectly straight. The changes in the bends have made it necessary to fix the various distances at odd points, as tin- track is not now a ful mile, lacking something like one hundred feet of the required distance. Thus the mile dashes will have as their starting point a spot above the finishing post and the other distances will be measured accordingly. In other words every race run on the Maple Heights track will be over the distance named on the program and will be that distance to the inch This course is naturally a fast on.- Xo soil has more real sj d in it. either Or runners or burnt si horses, than the clay northern Ohio and no soil is more tractable if it is properly worked. With the changes for the better in tin- shape of the course it is reasonably certain that the fast time made at previous n tings will be duplicated, perhaps beaten, at the meeting to held May ML
