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PLAN GOOD HOLIDAY CARDS High Point in Dade Park Meeting Will Be Reached in Saturday and Labor Day Racing. HENDERSON, Ky., Sept. 1. Brownell Berryman, racing secretary for the Dade Park Jockey Club, is preparing an excellent program for this week-end, which will include the Dade Park Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward, over a mile course, for Saturday, September 3, for a purse of ,000, and the Labor Day Handicap, for three-year-olds and upward, over a mile and one-eighth route, for a ,000 purse, on Monday, September 5. While the crowds at Dade Park this year have exceeded all expectations of the management, James C. Ellis, president of the Dade Park Jockey Club, predicts the coming week-end programs will be the loadstone that wiir draw record-breaking numbers of racing fans from out of the tri-state territory. The attendance has held up remarkably well all during the meeting, which will come to an end on Saturday, September 10, after twenty-six days of racing the longest meeting in the history of the western Kentucky track. The high class of thoroughbreds racing at Dade Park this summer has attracted racing fans from all over the tri-state area of Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois. Practically all of the races have been hotly contested and at times the decisions of the placing judges have been difficult, but the rulings made by judges T. C. Bradley, J. J. Graddy and B. Berryman have been praised by the racing fans in general and the horsemen in particular. There have been no unpleasant features to mar the sport at Dade Park. Lester Yeager, associate manager, has done everything possible for the comfort of those attending the race meeting and at the same time has been diligent in looking after the interests of the horsemen.
