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BOOSTS RIVERSIDE PARK SPORT F. B. Koontz Tells of Success Enjoyed at Kansas City This Year — Remarkable Improvement. LEXINGTON, Ky., June 18.— F. B. Koontz, Tulsa, Okla., oil man, and breeder of thoroughbred horses, was a visitor in Lexington today. He motored from Washington with his wife and children and after spending the day with Charles Nuckols and John Morris at Midway and Versailles, took the train tonight for Tulsa. Mrs. Koontz will go home by motor with the children. Mr. Koontz says that the improvement in racing and the patronage of racing at western points has been remarkable. "It is especially so at Kansas City," he said. "Where there used to be just a handful of horsemen and regulars in attendance, this year the crowds numbered from 3,500 to 5,000 on five days of the week, and from 8,000 to 10,000 on Saturdays." He said W. P. Kyne, who manages the meetings at Tulsa, Kansas City and Reno, sent twenty carloads of horses from Kansas City to Reno. "We are still somewhat of a leaky roof circuit," he said, with a smile, but we are rapidly getting the leaks stopped and we will blossom out good some of these days." Dr. Boyd Jeffers, who was at Agua Cali-ente last winter as track veterinarian, has gone back to perform the same duties during the summer meeting. He will reside in San Diego, of which city Mrs. Jeffers is a native.
