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SPORTSMAN PARK WIDE TRACK ; New Half-Mile Course, Built by Billy Meyers, Adapted for Large Fields. Sportsman Park, the new half-mile course opening May 2 for eighteen days, is the widest in the Chicago district. Billy Meyer, who superintended the laying out of many of the big tracks in the West, designed and built this track, and he pronounces it perfect at this time. A three-deck club house is nearly completed, the most elaborate in the West, according to observers. Direct Illinois Central train service will drop the racegoer at the door. Racing is to be under the rules and regulations of the Illinois Turf Association, although this year the track did not apply for membership in the association. The same scale of admission prices will prevail at the new track and the mutuels will be the same, with tickets the lowest sold. OHare and his official family will leave Florida on the close, of the racing season there this week and will be in Chicago to arrange for the opening of Sportsman Park." The dates announced are eighteen days, from May 2 to May 21, and nineteen days, from October 10 to October 31.
