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i I j . j | I | j ■ i I i KINGS PARK OPENS TODAY Twilight Racing to Be Staged Beginning at 5 P. M. Every Day Except Saturdays. MONTREAL, Que., July 20.— Kings Park, Montreals only remaining short distance track operated by the King Edward Park Amusement Company, Inc., opens tomorrow inaugurating the final fourteen-day meeting of the Montreal season. Much of the same success that attended the other local meetings is expected to mark the operation of Kings Park. Extensive and elaborate plans for the opening have been made by manager Nar- bonne, the track proper is in the best of condition and records are expected to be broken. Under the north end of the grandstand a large new restaurant has been completed for the public enclosure. Racing secretary Julius G. Reeder has arranged an attractive program for the open- ing, topped by the Capitol Theater Handicap, and all events are filled to capacity. In races at three-quarters of a mile and less the limit is placed at eight, while in the other events ten will be allowed to start. There are two chutes, one" at the five and one-half furlongs and one at the mile and fifty yards starts. The racing Saturday will start at 2:45 p. m. daylight, but the following days of the meeting, with the exception of Saturday, twilight racing will prevail. The first race each afternoon of the week will be called to the post at 5 p. m., and races will be run at intervals of fifteen minutes, which will enable the officials to call the last race to the post before 8 oclock. With the exception of Tom Clark, who will do the starting, the officers for the meeting will be the same as at the meeting at the Mount Royal course. Tom Clark will be making his initial appearance in Montreal as a starter. He is a native of Toronto and has been doing the starting on the tracks of A. M. Orpen for the past two seasons. The usual features will prevail, with the "Daily Double" on the third and fourth races, and the "Quinella" on the seventh. The opening day feature has attracted a field of eleven and brings together the best distance performers quartered at the course. With the return of Learoyd from Syracuse, which has been allotted the heavy impost of 127 pounds, much interest has been added to the contest, as he was undefeated in his five starts before going to Syracuse. Next in line are Euxine, Brandon Prince, with 112 pounds; Harlem, 109; Arson and Esperanto, 108; Chrysmute and Ellen D., 107; Attribute and Brown Wren, 104, and the light weight of the race, Despoil, is asked to shoulder 103 pounds.
