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TRACK AT HOUSTON, TEXAS Meeting of 28 Days From Thanksgiving Day to New Years to Be Run at New Course. CICERO, 111., Aug. 12. Under the joint auspices of the Lone Star Jockey Club and Texas Breeders and Racing Association, a meeting of twenty-eight days from Thanksgiving Day to January 1, 1934, inclusive, will be held at the 00,000 course, to be constructed at Houston, Texas, according to information given out by Lou Smith, who arrived here this morning from Houston and visited at Hawthorne before continuing East. Smith, who will be managing director of the new Texas track, also stated that work on the plant, which will be situated just six miles from the court house in the heart of Houston, is to start next week. "Our organization will be headed by Edward J. Hussion, an outstanding leader in the business life of Houston and an ardent lover of clean sports," said Mr. Smith, "a score or more other leading Texans also will be associated with us and racing of the highest type is planned. I will return to Houston immediately following the Rockingham Park fall meeting, but hope to be in a position to make a definite announcement about purses and stakes for the meeting within a few weeks." Mr. Smith confirmed reports that racing will be resumed at Arlington Downs, between Ft. Worth and Dallas, this fall and W. T. Waggoner and his sons who own that course will work with the Houston management in an effort to bring many fashionable stables to Texas for the two meetings. The Arlington Downs meeting of about twenty one days, will precede the Houston season.
