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SPORTSMANS PARK PURSES Minimum Offering 00 With ,000 Feature and Eight Races Each Day. Eight races a day will be run off at Sportsmans Park, which opens the Chi-cagos racing season May 2, and there will be a ,000 race daily. The minimum purse will be 00, and the condition book for the opening week shows 6,000 to be hung up in purses by E. J. OHare and his associates in the new half-mile track venture. Horsemen inquiring as to the effect of the recent New York Jockey Club ruling against outlaw half-mile tracks have been put at ease by the statement that Sportsmans Park is not affected by this ruling. The eastern body voted not to license jockeys and trainers who raced at half-milers not under the supervision of proper turf governing bodies. Racing in Illinois, it has been pointed out, is governed by the Department of Agriculture. Permits to run, the collection of license fees, the appointment of a state supervisor in the mutuel department, outlawing of a track for cause, all these acts are performed by the Department of Agriculture in Springfield. Sportsmans Park will come under this state supervision when it pays its license tee of ,500 daily about April 1. Notice of the acceptance of stable reservations have been sent to half a hundred owners and trainers by E. J. OHare, so that shipment of several hundred horses from New Orleans and Florida may start as soon as the snow clears off at Sportsmans Park.
