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ARLINGTONS PREPARATIONS « Racing Secretary Joseph McLennan Busy With Preliminary Details. Weights for Inaugural Handicap Ready Today — Beauties and Conveniences of Mammoth Northwest Side Track. « With the opening of the thirty-day meeting at Arlington Park scheduled for next Monday, June 29, Joseph McLennan, racing secretary, set in operation the full strength of his pre-meeting organization and the work of accepting stable registrations, issuances of bades and handling of numerous other preliminary details went forward at a rapid clip. Stable registration blanks were accepted by George Swain at Washington Park, while Charles Kenny and Sidney Brown were busy at Arlington, and Charles McLennan assisted his father at the Chicago office. Racing secretary McLennan was occupied with the work of assigning weights for the ,000 added Arlington Inaugural Handicap, to be run Monday, opening day of the meeting, and announcement of imposts for the 163 eligibles, which include all the leading sprinters East and West, will be made Tuesday. McLennan has completed arrangements whereby entries for Mondays races will be accepted at both Arlington Park and Washington Park. Entries will be closed at 10:30 a. m. at Arlington, and thirty minutes earlier at Washington Park. They will be released to pressmen at both tracks. For the convenience of horsemen whose stables are on the grounds an office where entries, scratches and names of jockeys will be accepted daily throughout the meeting is to be installed in the center of the stable enclosure. Arlington Park, in which are incorporated a dozen or more small farms of a few years ago, is upward of 1,000 acres of landscaped Continued on seventeenth page. ARLINGTONS PREPARATIONS Continued from first page. loveliness, wide expanses of restful greensward, clumps of graceful trees whose fronds screen mellow farm houses, e:;tc:iclvo orchards which furnish cover for hundreds of pheasants and Hungarian partridges, beautiful hedges of flowering shrubs, here and there lakes and ponds which teem with fish, and on the surfaces of which swans and other wild fowl disport, a truly delightful place at which to spend a summer afternoon, whether one is interested in racing and betting or not. The splendidly placed grandstand and club house seats 24,000 and shelters 40,000. Twenty thousand may view the racing from the terraced space in front of it. Wo other racing place in the world is so splendidly equipped and roomy. At the right is the artistic home of the Post and Paddock Club, an organization of the elite of Chicago society. In the spacious grandstand are restaurants and refreshment booths which serve food and drink at Loop prices. The catering is done by the Arlington Park Jocltey Club, under the immediate direction of Roy Car-ruthers, general manager, whose experience in such service was gained in the management of such famous American hotels as the Pennsylvania and Waldorf Astoria of New York, the Palace and St. James of San Francisco, the Book-Cadillac of Detroit, and the Phoenix of Lexington. There is stabling of the best sort for about 1,500 horses, a track one mile around for the training of flat runners, and a schooling course for steeplechasers that is bigger and better than the regular steeplechase courses of the old fashioned mile tracks of the East. The main steeplechase course resembles no others so much as the course at Saratoga and Blue Bonnets Montreal, which lie within the inner fences of tracks for flat runners one mile and a furlong around as it does. The Chicago Northwestern furnishes special thirty-five-minute train service to and from the Loop, some thirty miles away, and brings down from the North patrons from Wisconsin, Minnesota, etc. There are plenty of trains and no crowding. Arlington Park is in the center of a network of the best hard surfaced automobile highways in the entire country. Because of the amplitude of the place, no racing plant anywhere offers so much space for the parking of motor cars.
