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E s e e , r s t . 1 f - t . - t t I - , 1 I OUTLET FOR CICERO TRACK « Opening of Thistle Down in July Relieves Pressure. • Hawthorne and Cleveland Track Able to Care for 3,000 Horses— Only Mid-1- Western Tracks Operating. • The opening of the Thistle Down race track on July 15 will serve to relieve a rather difficult problem in respect to horsemen racing in the Middle West. With the close of Latonia, Hawthorne and Thistle Down will be the only major tracks open in the Middle West, Joseph A. Murphy returned to the city last week and found on his desk a list of applications for stalls at Thistle Down. He will take up with superintendent Ben Miller at Hawthorne today the stall reservations for the summer meeting at the Cicero track in August. From the applications already received it has become plain that it will be utterly impossible to take care of all those seeking to race at the West Side course. Thistle Down has everything that a major track needs. A fine mile course, a grand- stand and club house among the best, the latter patterned after the club house at Havre de Grace; the Bahr starting gate, fine grass and water, and a beautiful city of a million people. With judge Murphy pulling the strings of the only two major tracks open in the West at the time, it will be possible to take care of practically all of the western horsemen. Many useful stables which cannot be quartered at Haw-t thorne can be diverted to Thistle Down and brought back to Hawthorne in the fall when the opening in Kentucky and Maryland will relieve the congestion which will obtain during the summer meeting. It is estimated from the applications al-l ready received at both tracks, that stalls will be required for close to 3,000 horses. Hawthorne and Thistle Down between them will be able to take care of these. ♦
