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SUNDAYS CHARITY PROGRAM Jefferson Park Management Gives a Days Racing to Unemployed Eight Races Scheduled With Welfare Day Handicap the Feature Record Crowd Expected If Good Weather Prevails. NEW ORLEANS, La., Jan. 23. New Orleans goes racing for sweet charity tomorrow when a program of eight races, under the auspices of the New Orleans Welfare Association and for the benefit of needy unemployed of this city, will be run at Jefferson Park. The unfortunate, in whose cause the one-day meeting will be held, are expected to reap a considerable measure of relief, as operating costs for the day will amount to only the purse money distributed, and some of that is expected to find its way into charitys purse through donations from owners of the successful horses. R. S. Eddy, Jr., and his associates in Jefferson Park, are turning over to the Welfare Association the plant and defraying costs of numerous adjuncts to its operation. All track employes are giving their services gratis for the day and numerous other physical and financial donations have been reported. For this worthy occasion the admission charge to the track will be but one dollar per person. This is fifty cents less than the regular general admission fee. The smaller charge is expected to prove a boon to the Welfare fund. If pleasant weather prevails a record crowd for the track is expected. Patrons will, include hundreds prominent in civic, business, social and political circles,, and guests of honor may include Governor Long, Governor-Elect O. K. Allen, Mayor Walmsley and many others. Races on the program are named for the mentioned high public officials. Racing secretary Julius G. Reeder built an attractive program around the feature, Welfare Day Handicap, in which Wotan, Prose and Poetry, Nyack, Mine Sweeper, Gaillardia, Gettin Even, Who Win, Weide-leen and Etonardo will meet at one mile and seventy yards, and patrons will want for nothing in the way of entertainment. Wotan, champion of the handicap division here to date, will attempt to carry top weight of 118 pounds, while Gettin Even, conqueror of the former in the recent Louisiana Handicap, is assigned 112 pounds. Prose and Poetry is in at 105 pounds, while Gaillardia and Nyack must carry 103 pounds A limit field accepted for the Governor Long Purse, fifth on the card, and at one mile and one-half, while the maximum number of three-year-olds are to contest at a mile and seventy yards in the Mayor Walmsley Purse, or sixth race. A quarter mile race for two-year-olds in fourth position is named in honor of Governor-Elect Allen. With favorable weather, eight races will be run, and if unpleasant, the card will be reduced by one event. Post time for the first contest will be 2 oclock. Numerous special preparations for the handling and the accommodation of the large crowd have been made and visitors can purchase grandstand boxes and club house reservations at the track. Special trains will be run over the Illinois Central, the first pulling out of the Union Station at 1:15 oclock. Under parking arrangements worked out today, an almost unlimited number of automobiles can be conveniently parked. It was announced that badges for the Jefferson Park meeting issued to horsemen and members of the press will be honored. Aside from these exceptions, the free list is positively suspended. The field for the Welfare Day Handicap, with post positions, weights and probable jockeys, follows: PP. Horse. Wt. Jockey 1 Etonardo 102 ,-. T. May 2 Weideleen ....... .108 ... 3 Who Win 101 .H. Thomas 4 Gettin Even 112. .. .-c J. Neel 5 Wotan 118 H. R. Riley 6 Gaillardia 103...... .J. Hernandez 7 Mine Sweeper, r.. 101 R. G. Cooper 8 Nyack ...103 T. May 9 Prose and Poetry. .105 G. Elston
