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BENEFIT DAY AT BELMONT PARK NEW YORK, N. Y., May 30. Belmont Park, one of the worlds most beautiful race courses, will be the scene of a benefit day of racing for "unemployed people of the press" on June 5. The Long Island race course has been given over to the committee composed of prominent New York newspapermen and headed by Irvin S. Cobb, through the courtesy of Joseph E. Widener and his associates in the Westchester Racing Association. All net proceeds for the days racing will go to unemployed newspaper men and women. Other members of the committee, of which Cobb is honorary chairman, include such prominent journalists as Grantland Rice, Ford Frick, Charles Francis Coe, Bill Corum, Graham McNamee, Lowell Thomas, Walter Winchell, Damon Runyon, Paul Gallico and Dan Parker. A regular six-race program, including a steeplechase, will be run, with purses aggregating approximately ,600.
