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DADE PARKS 1934 MEETING Longest in History of Track Cover ¬ ing 26 Days From August 4 to September 3 OWENSBORO Ky June 26 The sum ¬ mer race meeting at Dade Park will be the twelfth one given at the western Kentucky track all of which except the first being under the auspices of the Dade Park Jockey Club of which James C Ellis Owensboro is president and owner of the track Mr Ellis has conducted ten annual meetings with varying degrees of success The crowds attending Dade Park from the tristate ter ¬ ritory of Kentucky Indiana and Illinois have increased each year all records being shat ¬ tered last summer Dade Park was one of the few race tracks in the country that showed a profit in 1933 1933The The handsome steel bridge spanning the Ohio River at Dade Park has served to in ¬ crease the attendance at the track very ma ¬ terially Dade Park was originally an island in the Ohio River but a change in the course of the river has to all appearances left it a part of the state of Indiana how ¬ ever the highest courts of the land ruled many years ago that the land is still in the state of Kentucky KentuckyEvansville Evansville one of the largest cities in In ¬ diana has a finely equipped race track at its doorstep the city being four miles from Dade Park and at the same time within half an hours ride of scores of other cities and towns in Kentucky and Indiana and an hours ride from Illinois towns townsThe The coming meeting at Dade Park August 4 to September 3 inclusive twentysix days is the longest in the history of the track
