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AURORA INAUGURAL MAY 1 Details Completed for Forerunner of Chicago Meetings Majority of Officials Ou Scene Condition ConditionBooks Books for First Seven Bays of Racing RacingIssued Issued Starting Gate Test AURORA 111 April 21 One more week remains before the thud of hoofs will be heard pounding down the home stretch and brilliant colors flash before the public at the Aurora spring meeting first of the many race meetings to be held in Chicago and its en ¬ virons during the coming summer Aurora opens next Wednesday May 1 and general I manager Clifford R Trimble is figuring on a I brilliant inaugural inauguralThe The first condition book for the meeting made its appearance yesterday having been prepared by presiding steward and handi capper Martin Nathanson and racing secre ¬ tary Charles F Henry who are at present in Chicago and it contains some attractive races for the first week of the meeting meetingThe The opening tidbit of course will be the Aurora Inaugural Purse over one mile to be run as the fifth race on May 1 and this will be supported by two other distance races and four sprints A handicap is scheduled tor every day of the first seven days with the remaining races for both stayers and short distance horses horsesDespite Despite the fact that the races are a week away the hotels in Aurora and at Exposition Park at filling up rapidly with horsemen employes and turf followers whose business takes them to the track in the early hours of the morning morningMembers Members of the official staff are reportinp daily and with the exception of starter Harry Morrissey and judge C C Campau all are on hand handThe The list of directors of racing is practically Continued on Hixlccnth page AURORA INAUGURAL MAY 1 Continued from first page the same as that of last year Martin Na thanson who has officiated in Cuba all win ¬ ter Charles F Henry and Charles L Trim ¬ ble brother of general manager Clifford Trimble will be the stewards while R Leigh and C C Campau and Francis Dunne will be judges Mr Henry will also serve sis racing secretary while Harry Morrissey will preside over the new starting gate C C Campau and Arthur Blanchau are paddock judges Frank Otis and John Clifford patrol judges and Francis Dunne is clerk of scales scalesArthur Arthur Blanchard was the latest to arrive He got in from his home in New Orleans to ¬ day Francis Dunne who served as patrol judge at Tijuana during the winter and Messrs Nathanson Trimble and Leigh have been in the vicinity for some time timeStarter Starter Harry Morrissey is due to report from his Kentucky breeding farm tomorrow and with his arrival the new HeisserCola starting gate will receive its first real test Morrissey will begin supervising the school ¬ ing of horses from the device immediately upon his arrival and upon his decision and the action of the thoroughbreds when placed in the stalls hinges the present success of the machine Horses will be schooled from 8 a m to 10 a m until the opening of the meeting
