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AURORA OPENING SATURDAY Exposition Park Management Plans to Go Ahead With the Recently I Announced Fall Meeting. AURORA, 111., Aug. 29. Aurora race track will open next Saturday, September 3, for a late summer meeting of thirteen days or more. This official announcement was made today by Ed F. Carruthers, general manager at the Fox River Valley course. He said: "We have been making plans for this meeting for more than two weeks, and everything is in readiness for a successful meeting. We have been given ample assurance from many horsemen that they are desirous of racing at Aurora, and many of them are now stabled at the course and others are preparing to ship." In making his official announcement of the meeting, Mr. Carruthers also announced his officials for the meeting. They are: Sam C. Nuckols, presiding steward; John Carey, placing judge and clerk of the scales; Sidney Brown, paddock judge and entry clerk; A. J. Hefferan, patrol judge; George Palmer, starter; Charles McLennan, racing secretary and placing judge. Seven races will be run daily instead of eight as at the spring meeting in May and at other Chicago tracks since. Eight races will be run only on Saturdays and Labor Day, next Monday. The daily double system of wagering, introduced to Chicago race fans last May at Aurora, will be one of the popular features of the meeting. R. C. Jones, superintendent of the mutuels, has his crew of daily double experts at the track now getting the special booths ready. With seven races instead of eight during the week days, Mr. Carruthers is making a move to get race goers home earlier than has been the custom. The Burlington Railroad and the Aurora $ Elgin electric line will run special trains daily direct to the course. Admission to Aurora will be plus the tax. In accordance with its custom of several years, the opening day will be Ladies Day, and every Tuesday and Friday thereafter tho gate will be free to the gentler sex.
