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J J , j i . j j , I , I ! ! I j I | | I | I PLANS FOR FALL MEETING Sportsmans Park, Popular Chicago = Half Mile Track, to Hold Nineteen Days Racing Starting Oct. 10. Keeping .faith with Chicago racing enthusiasts, Sportsmans Park, popular half-mile track, which made a big hit at the ! , inaugural eighteen-day meeting, will inaug- urate its fall racing on October 10. "We will run nineteen days, winding up on , October 31," said E. J. OHare, president and general manager. That horsemen were delighted with the initial meeting of the National Jockey Club is best attested by the early applications for ; the scheduled fall racing. Even at this early date it is certain that quarters at Sportsmans Park and an adjoining track will not be sufficient to house all the thor- oughbreds, which owners desire to ship here. A number of improvements will be made at Sportsmans Park prior to October 10. A new chute is to be built leading direct to the eighth pole, which will permit the building of stationary starting stalls at this point. : It also is possible that another chute will 1 be built at the seven furlongs pole. Announcement is made by manager r OHare that a starting gate will be used at j the next meeting for races at a mile and one-sixteenth. «
