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VISIT TO ARLINGTON PARK President Otto Lehmann and Other Officials Inspect Course. • Find Improvements Nearly Completed — Pro* dictions Mnde for Greatest Meeting Ever Held at Mammoth Track. President Otto W. Lehmann, and a number 3f other high officials of the American National Jockey Club paid a visit to Arlington Park Saturday, for the purpose of inspecting the new Post and Paddock club house, which is rapidly nearing completion, and the other numerous improvements that have been made at the plant since last fall. Besides Mr. lehmann, the party included Charles A. McCulloch, chairman of the board; Roy Carruthers, managing director ; racing secretary Joseph McLennan ; steward and handicapper Martin Nathanson. and R. J. Nash. President Lehmann, after a thorough inspection of the huge plant, expressed his pleasure over the most satisfactory results attained and took occasion to compliment Mr. Carruthers, who has been working unremmit-ently in order to have the place in a thorough state of readiness by July 1. the opening day of the midsummer season. Mr. McCulloch and the other members of the parly all expressed surprise and pleasure over the splendid and improved appearance of Arlington Park. In commenting on the approaching meeting, president Lehmann made the prediction that it would outshine any that have ever been held at the track, and that it would set new standards for racing in Chicago. Continuing, Mr. Lehmann said : "We are looking forward to a new era in western racing and Arlington Park is going to set the pace. Having provided a magnificent setting, where fhi-cagoans can witness the highest class of racing by the very best horses in the country, we believe the sport loving people of Chicago will support us nobly in this worthy endeavor. ENORMOUS EXPENSE. "The American National Jockey Club has been to enormous expense to provide Chicago with the very best in the way of thoroughbred racing, on a par with that seen at Belmont Park and Saratoga. Our policy, like that of the heads of these two great eastern racing centers, is to conduct racing solely for the sake of the si ort, and without any h [ « of pecuniary profit. We are going to have a great many of the big eastern stables here to race all during the meeting. And they will bring the countrys best jockeys. We have been fortunate in securing a board of stewards that will reflect credit on Chicago racing. The men composing this board are of the highest standing in the turf world, and their names inspire confidence amnn? all classes. The other officials have also been selected with care, and with a view of getting none but the very best" Admiral Cary T. Crayson, who won international fame during the two administrations of President Woodrow Wilson as the White House physician, and, who for a number of years has been taking a prominent part in racing and American thoroughbred production, has been named as one of the stew;inls that will serve at the approaching Arlington Park meeting that begins July 1. He will be associated in the stand with Christopher J. Fitzgerald, Arthur B. Hancock, Martin Nathanson and Major L A. Beard, who, like himself, are all well known in the racing world and have the complete confidence of horsemen and race patrons. A11MIRAL GRAYSON ON STAFF. The appointment of Admiral Grayson, in particular, is most pleasing to horsemen who have always held him in the highest esteem, and now regard him as one of the pillars of the American turf. This will mark the first time for Admiral Grayson to serve in an official capacity at any western race track. He will bring to the position a dignity and soundness of judgment that should characterize every appointee to the important position of steward. Admiral Grayson is a partner with Charles T. Fisher, Detroit automobile man in the ownership of the Dixiana Stable, which recently acquired from George Wingfield the crack three-year-old Voltear. For many years the admiral raced a stable of good horses in his sole interest. The late W. P. Burch. father of Preston Burch, who has been engaged to train the Dixiana Stable, developed and trained My Own, the best horse Admiral Orayson has campaigned so far. My Own, a Virginia-bred son of King James and Betty London, was the great rival of Zev and In Memoriam in the three-year-old racing of the summer and autumn of 1923. •
