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HAMILTON READY FOR WORK Pair Grounds Starter Arranges for Schooling of Juveniles. Chris. FitzGerald to Pass Upon All Applications for licenses Jack Campbell Delayed by Business. NEW ORLEANS, La., Jan. 20. William Hamilton, who has been in charge of the starting at the Fair Grounds the past seven years and who will prevail at the barrier during the forty-eight-day meeting opening Monday, arrived here today. He immediately arranged for the schooling of two-year-olds and older horses at the Louisiana Jockey Club course and directed the putting up of the mechanical parts of the Bradley-Stewart starting gates, which are used for all starts at that track. Jack B. Campbell, who is returning to the Fair Grounds as a steward during the coming meeting, wired that it would be impossible for him to get here before Sunday. He is at present visiting his brother in Hhode Island and plans to stop off in New Tork on business for a day before proceeding South. Campbells work and ability are weU known to local enterprises, he having served at both the Fair Grounds and Jefferson Park tracks for a number of years. With Campbell delayed, Chris. FitzGerald, who is replacing George Brown, Jr., in the Fair Grounds stand for the coming meeting, will pass upon practically all of the applications for licenses. FitzGerald is expected here by Friday morning and upon arrival will find hundreds of applications for licenses awaiting his consideration. Racing secretary Joseph McLennan is closing nominations for the ,000 added Pontchartrain Handicap, to be run Saturday, January 30. The Pontchartrain is for three-year-olds and over and will be decided over one mile and one-sixteenth. A subscription fee of 0 must accompany each v entry. McLennan is calling attention of horsemen to the new regulation adopted for the coming meeting, which requires the naming of starters for all stakes and handicaps at the usual hour the day preceding the The locally-owned Silverdale, one of the outstanding handicap performers here, was assigned top weight of 122 pounds for the ,000 added Inaugural Handicap, to be run Monday at the Fair Grounds, according to announcements of weights today. Spanish Play, winner of the last Louisiana Derby, drew an impost of 117 pounds, and Bar-gello a pound less. Pansy Walker is allotted 114 pounds and Jimmy Moran 113 pounds. Thirty-two are eligible for the race, and if decided under favorable conditions, the starting field will be one of the classiest and largest brought together for a race here in several years. The eligibles, with weights, follow: Angry, 103; Black Tyrone, 97; Bar-gello, 116; Bertjohn, 98; Busted, 97; Bar Hunter, 104; Broad Meadows, 105; Click, 107; Elizabeth Bolla, 96; Etonardo, 102; Flying Tom, 100; Hyman, 100; High Foot, 103; Jimmy Moran, 113; Justinian, 104; Light Mint, 100; Lucky Tom, 108; Mine Sweeper, 96; Nyack, 100; Our Cherrycote, 92; Playtime, 104; Pansy Walker, 114; Quatre Bras H., 103; Springsteel, 100; Sergt. Donaldson, 103; Smear, 103; Silverdale, 122; Surf Board, 111; Supreme Sweet, 103; Spanish Play, 117; Sir Melton, 100; Wotan, 108.
