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VISIT TO ARLINGTON PARK More Than Two Hundred Men Putting Finishing Touches on Chicagos Newest Track. If the Sunday visitors to the Arlington Park course can be taken as a criterion, the newest of Chicagos race courses is destined to accommodate some record breaking crowds this summer. Even though the day-was dismal and a light rain fell in the afternoon it did not seem to matter much to racegoers, for they were out in large numbers to get a look at the new and massive plant which was built and had a most successful inaugural meeting last fell. Much has been accomplished in beautifying and completing the massive plant and it is promised that everything will be in readiness. There are more than 200 men now actively engaged in putting on the finishing touches. When the gates are swung open for the 192S meeting next Monday it is highly probable that the large crowd expected to be on hand for the opening days racing will see, at least in part, that which II. E. Brown has visualized — one of the greatest race tracks in this or any other country. Parking space, which was inadequate last fall, has been completed, crushed stone by the tons having been laid and rolled, and now there is sufficient parking room for all the automobiles that .ever will enter the place. The roadways leading to the course have been widened and will be open for traffic before opening day, so that the congestion which prevailed last year should be a thing of the past. The plant itself is in the hands of the painters and that phase of the work is going along rapidly. The mile and the mile and an eighth courses are in excellent condition and both will be used during the coming meeting. The terraces in front of the stands have been given much attention and are now being rolled with a heavy coating of fine gravel as a top dressing. The land to the west of the club house has all been sodded Continued on twenty-fourth page. VISIT TO ARLINGTON PARK Continued from first page. and presents a pretty picture with rolling terraces and shrubs all about. The paddock, which is an innovation on American race courses, is just about completed and needs only some tidying up to be in readiness for the opening day. The paddock is an immense plant in itself and affords room for as many horses as well ever start in a race to be saddled and walked around the large ring. People in the stands will be able to obtain a fine view of the horses being saddled and unimbered by merely walking to the rear of the stand. A course leads from the paddock to the track, going beneath th grandstand. As related above, there still remains much to be accomplished in bringing the plant to a state of perfection, but it is likely this will come about in the time intervening between the meeting to open next Monday and the following meeting in August. The inclement weather encountered this spring has had much to do with inability to have the place finished entirely, but that should not be the case next August.
