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i i , ■ £ ! , ] C i 1 c C 8 t 1 I « I C O j J c . £ * 2 j I V [ BLUE BONNETS NOTES f I . $ $ MONTREAL, Que., June 15. : Many improvements have been made to the Blue Bonnets course since last fall. A number of trees have been set out in the paddock. The track has been resurfaced ! and a new press stand built for the turf ! scribes. Sun Tweed is the latest addition to the 1 string that Jack Whyte is racing on the Canadian circuit for Willis Sharpe Kilmer. Whyte has already won eight races for the Binghampton sportsman since the Thorn- ! cliffe meeting began. P. E. Fitzgerald, who has been quite ill 5 as a result of an operation for sinus trouble, is up and about once again. The Fitzgerald horses have been at Blue Bonnets since the J close of the Pimlico meeting in Maryland. ] Gene Bury, racing secretary at Dorval, distributed the condition books of that meet- * ing among the horsemen. A majority of the j stables that shipped from Toronto and Ot- tawa will remain over for Dorval. Captain West is an arrival from New York with Epigram. He reports that Jack Richardson is thinking of sending a division * of the California Stable to Canada. Preston J Burch is another horsemen that is thinking of sending some of his racers up to Canada. *■ George Corbett, agent for the prevention ] of cruelty to children, at 1421 Atwater Street, ] Montreal, is anxious to get in touch with * Phillip Bashwines, whose father is danger- I ously ill at his home in New York. The many friends of Horace Lerch, one of Buffalos prominent sporting scribes, will be pained to learn of his death. Lerch con- •■ tracted a severe cold on the closing day of the Woodbine meeting, which resulted fatal- " ly. Lerch managed Frank Gotch when the * latter was the champion wrestler of the * world. 1 *. 7
