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PROSPECTS NEVER BRIGHTER Predict Fairmount Meeting Will .Be Best in History. Various Departments Arriving or Expected Within a Few Days Inaugural Week From Saturday. COLLINSVILLE, 111., April 30. One week from next Saturday the Fairmount Park gates will be thrown open for the 1930 meeting of forty-nine days, with the prospects of this meeting being one of the best in the history of the course. There will be increased activity on the track during this week with shipments of thoroughbreds arriving from Wheeling, Havre de Grace and Tanforan. There, have been some exceptionally fast workouts reported in the mornings here, one especially credited to the R. C. Stables Derby candidate, Longus. The son of Waygood Jane Frances ran one mile in 1:41 a few mornings ago and was hard held. Those who are close to the R, C. Stables activities say that they plan to start their charge in the Kentucky Derby and are well pleased with his performance. He is also nominated for the Fairmount Derby, which will be run May 24. It was at first thought that J. C. Ellis would not ship here, but he has asked for the stable room assigned him and will include in his lot Playfellows Dream, the filly which ran second to Titus in the Florida Derby. She is entered in the Fairmount Derby. This filly accounted for nine out of fifteen races as a two-year-old and has won two in eight starts this year and been out of the money but once. RECORD HOLDERS PRESENT. Holders of twenty-one records at various tracks around the country will be seen at Fairmount Park during the coming meeting. Some of them jre: Brown Wisdom, Misstep, Thistle Fyrn, My Dandy, Queen Towton, Sea Rocket, Old Dutch, Extreme, Jimmy Moran and Genuine. The horses in the R. C. Stable, which raced in California during the winter and are now on the grounds are : Longus, Ark, Mascado, Miss Noah, King at Arms, Red Chili, Poppy-field, Red Cactus and Forecaster. Mary Dale heads the stable of G. R. Anderson, now on the grounds. He reports all his charges in excellent shape and Mary Dale ready to meet the best here. Anderson won three races in a row this winter with Mary Dale, starting her first in a ,000 claiming race and then in a ,000 race, which she also captured. Four wins out of seven starts this year is Mary Dales record. In the stable of Anderson is Bunker a four-year-oid which has never started. Illness and injuries have kept him from starting, but he may get to the post this summer. C. L. Mackey, who operates the track kitchen at Arlington Park and Oriental Park, has charge of the concessions here. He is feeding 150 a day now and expects this to double with the arrival of the Maryland, Wheeling and California groups this week. TO INSTALL WAITE GATE. G. R. Bryson is expected here Monday and will supervise the installation of the Waite starting gates, which are to be used at this meeting. Racing secretary Julius Reeder announced that he would open the secretarys office on Thursday, May 1, and would start the work of registering the horses on the grounds. He will be assisted by Richard Leigh. General manager Robert S. Eddy, Jr., received word from Joseph Cattarinich, in charge of the mutuel department, that he would arrive early next week. Several of the crew are already on the scene, including Alfey Erwin and "Doc" Blumlein. Abe Seligman, a former theatrical man before joining the racing forces, is plastering the countryside with posters of the coming meeting. Seligman also does this work .for the Chicago tracks and both the Fair Grounds and Jefferson Park tracks in New Orleans. The veteran fight promoter and concessionaire of Jefferson Park, Dominick Tortorich, is an arrival from New Orleans and expects to remain during the meeting.
