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ASSURANCES OF SUPPORT ♦- St. Louis Devotees of Racing Taking Active Interest in Fair-mount. ♦• Over Three Hundred Horses Stabled at Cat* linsvllle Coarse Awaiting Opening on 31 ny 26. COLLIXSVILLE, 111., May 14— That the high class racing at Fairmount Park during the spring meeting, which opens Saturday, May 26. and continues to Saturday, July 7, will have the cordial support of St. Louis lovers of the sport, was the assurance given general manager C. Bruce Head yesterday by a committee of business and professional men, headed by W. Frank Carter, Arnold G. Stifel. Willard Cox and Sam Club. The committee informed Mr. Head that inquiry among leading business and professional men of the city revealed a growing interest in the character of racing as it has been conducted in previous meetings at Fair-mount Park and. with every indication that the coming meeting would be the most successful from the standpoint of prominent racing establishments participating with their best horses, many leading citizens of St. Louis have signified their intention to attend more regularly than they have during previous meetings. It is the purpose of the committee, Mr. Head was told, to urge a selected list of well known citizens of St. Louis and vicinity to become more actively identified with the social phase of racing so well afforded at Fairmount Park, with its modern and comfortable club house and other features. It is planned to dispose of 500 club house memberships to this selected list of leading men of St. Louis, East St. Louis and vicinities. Over 300 horses are now in .the stables at Fairmount Park. This number will be considerably augmented this week with arrivals from Maryland. Mr. Head was advised yesterday that, with the close of the Pimlico meeting, the following stables would be shipped to Fairmount Park : E. K. Bryson, with 21 horses ; Steve Judge, 6 ; H. G. Bed-well, 20 ; W. Sheedy, 5 ; Sam Louis, 9 ; Rex Cooper. 2 ; S. W. Richards, 3 ; E. B. McLean, 12 : Audley Farm, 27 J P. E. Fitzgerald, 5, and A. G. Robertson, 9 The Waite patented stall starting gate has arrived at Fairmount Park and will be placed in readiness for the schooling of horses this week. Starter William Snyder has had his barrier up for the past week and has spent several hours each morning with colts and horses of other than tractable qualities, coaching them as to the proper behavior at the starting post. S. S. Gilmartin, superintendent of the certificate department, arrived yesterday and will begin immediately to arrange the "necessary details to have his department in readiness for the opening. * _
