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McLENNAN AT NEW ORLEANS Expects to Have Fair Grounds Conditions Books in Hands of Horsemen by Friday. NEW ORLEANS, La., Jan. 5. With the arrival today of Joseph McLennan, racing secretary of the Louisiana Jockey Club, the major or more important pre-meeting preparations of the racing department at the Fair Grounds got under way. McLennan, one of the outstanding condition writers, whose skill has been an important factor in bringing the Fair Grounds, Arlington Park, Hawthorne, Bowie, Havre de Grace and other tracks the finest in racing during their respective seasons, came from Chicago, where he was busy the past three weeks with important details of his secretarial office with the Arlington Park Jockey Club. Soon after his arrival here, McLennan sent his copy for the first book of conditions for the forty-eight days Fair Grounds meeting, opening Monday, January 25, to the printer, and he expects to distribute the booklets among the horsemen by Friday. McLennan is well pleased with the racing material, assembled here this winter and with the cp-operation of the horsemen and a break in weather, promises to maintain the usual high standard of racing which he has furnished Fair Grounds patrons for many seasons. During the next few days other members of the racing department are due here, and with their assistance plans will go forward at a rapid pace. Steward Martin Nathanson is coming from Arizona, while his associate, Christopher Fitzgerald, is expected from New York about a week before the opening. Herman Conklin, clerk of scales and placing judge, arrives Wednesday from San Francisco, and Noah McClelland, placing judge, will soon be en route from Kentucky. William H. Shelley, also a placing judge, and William Hamilton, starter, will come here immediately after the close of Tropical Park. Col. John P. Sullivan, directing head of the Fair Grounds, announced today that all improvements and the extensive renovating of the plant, which was inaugurated last fall, were completed, and the course is in complete readiness for the coming meeting.
