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CHICAGO RACING DATES RATIFIED Illinois Turf Association Approves Schedule Agreed Upon by Local Tracks Season Opens and Closes at Aurora y .- -1 The following are the 1932 racing dates for the Chicago tracks, as ratified Saturday morning by the Illinois Turf Association: Aurora May 2 to May 21, inclusive 18 days Washington Park... ....May 23 to June 25, inclusive ..............30 days Arlington Park June 27 to July 30, inclusive .....; 30 days Hawthorne Aug. 1 to Sept. 2, inclusive 29 days Lincoln Fields Sept. 3 to Oct. 8, inclusive 31 days Aurora Oct. 10 to Oct. 31, inclusive .........19 days 1. - . , .-rT--.rTlrTT. , , . . . ..j The Illinois Turf Association, meeting in its offices at 25 E. Congress St., Saturday morning, ratified the schedule of racing dates for Chicago as published in Daily Racing Form with one minor exception, Hawthorne losing one day and Lincoln Fields gaining one day. The Chicago Business Mens Racing Association will open on August 1 and close Friday, September 2, Lincoln Fields opening on the following day Saturday, September 3, and running to October 8. Hawthorne will have twenty-nine racing days and Lincoln Fields thirty-one racing days, including Labor Day, which falls on September 5 this year and gives Lincoln Fields, in effect, two holidays for its opening days. The remainder of the schedule remains as published, Aurora opening and closing the season and Washington Park being the first of the big Chicago tracks to entertain the public. Those present at the meeting included Stuyvesant Peabody, president of Lincoln Fields; Matt Winn, director general of the American Turf Association, controlling Lincoln Fields, Washington Park, Churchill Downs and Latonia; Roy Carruthers, general manager of Arlington Park; John Schank, president, and Charles Bidwill, secretary, of Hawthorne; E. F. Carruthers and A. M. 6 Hirsh, representing the Exposition Park Jockey Club, Aurora, and C. W. Hay and Robert M. Sweitzer, Washington Park Jockey Club. Fairmount Park at Collinsville was not represented. Immediately after the Illinois Turf Association meeting, the directors of the Lincoln Fields Jockey Club went into executive session and elected Stuyvesant Peabody president, Marshall Field HI., vice-president, an d Matt Winn, managing director. Representatives of the new half-mile track adjacent to Hawthorne, were conspicuous by their absence and the only news forthcoming was to the effect that the new course would run in conflict with Aurora, which is their privilege as long as the states daily tax fee is forthcoming. , - j
