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FAIRMOUNTS FINE OFFER ♦ Chance for Leading Citizens to Secure Club Memberships. . * Attractive Program Arranged for Coming Spring Meeting — Order of the Running of Stake Fixtures. ♦ COLLIXSVILLE, 111., April 23— Members of the Board of Governors of the Fairmount Jockey Club are receiving many membership applications and before the spring meeting opens May 28, the limit of 500 will no doubt be reached. The proposition is the same that is made to the public at other racing centers and is simply an effort to get the leading citizens of the community interested in the social side of racing. With this end in view an offer is made by the management to supply-approved applications or Jockey Club memberships with a badge good for the spring meeting of thirty-two days and the autumn meeting of nineteen days, fifty-one days in all, for 2.50. With this two-meeting badge goes the admission for two ladies for the year. This gives three daily admissions for fifty-one days at the very low cost of 2.50, but in order to obtain this concession in rates the applicant must make application to the Board of Governors and his application must be approved. Fairmount Park will offer an exceptionally attractive program for the spring meeting, with the Collinsville Handicap as the feature, for the opening day, May 28. The next stake feature will be the Fairmount Derby, to be run Saturday, June 4, with the best three-year-olds in America nominated and 5,000 added. On the following Saturday, June 11, the Valley Stakes, for two-year-old fillies, will be the attraction. Another stake for two-year-olds, the Illinois, will be run June 18. The Hotel Statler Handicap, at a mile and a sixteenth, with the best handicap horses in the country nominated, will be run on June 25, and many of these same horses will meet in the Hotel Jefferson Handicap, to be the feature of the racing July 2. To those interested in the social side of these meetings the beauty of Fairmount Park and the luxurious furnishings of its beautiful clubhouse are a distinct appeal. Landscape gardeners have made the grounds a beauty spot, with beautiful lawns, a blue grass coated infield and brilliant flower beds, while for a background nature has provided the Collinsville hills. The furnishings of the clubhouse are the last word in luxury and the ser ice afforded guests is exceptional. The dining room at Fairmount Park proved an attraction last year at the spring and autumn meetings and will again be under the same efficient management. *
