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KAELKER VISITOR IN CHICAGO Predicts Successful Meeting at Havana Next Winter, With Several Stakes of High Order. Dick Kaelker and Joe McGoldrick, Interested in Philadelphia, Long Branch, Saratoga, New York and Cuban sporting affairs, are in Chicago to attend the finale of Hawthornes racing season and the opening of the thirty-one day meeting at Lincoln Fields. Mr. Kaelker, who is associated with Charles Kaelker, his brother, in operating the Havana-American Jockey Club, stated that details are progressing in connection with the winter season there. It has been definitely decided to give a number of rich stakes, one of notable value, designed to attract outstanding thoroughbreds in American racing. Details will be forthcoming in due time, he explained, that will be of far reaching interest to. turfmen who campaign j in the States, some of whom are patrons of Oriental Park. As to the opening "of the season in Havana, he said the date had not been decided upon. Assurances have come from all quarters, he stated, that more and better horses will be available next winter than heretofore. "It is not alone a question of number," he said. "Rather, it will be usefulness of racers that will determine acceptance; of shipments to the island." A strange situation respecting racing, one contributing to the future welfare of the sport in Havana, has been the continuous success of a summer meeting at Oriental Park. Saturday and Sunday programs have attracted crowds and. developed enthusiasm. Mr. Kaelker said the impression prevailing in the East that Chicago has forged to the front in turf supremacy is based on fact. The interest and throngs in Hawthorne racing surprised him.
