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DALLAS INAUGURAL THURSDAY i- Plant Ready for Opening of Twenty-One Day Meeting. Crack Band of Sprinters Expected to Fac Barrier for State Fair of Texas Handicap. DALLAS, Texas, April 23. Final, preparations were completed today for the opening of the Fair Park spring meeting of twenty-one days Thursday. The ultra modern and commodious plant which inaugurated Dallas legalized racing last spring, is ready for an opening that from all indications will greatly surpass both of the other two seasons. Given a free hand by Otto Herald, chairman of the racing commission of the Fair Park association, Julius G. Reeder, general manager, and one of the most successful of the younger racing officials, has worked untiringly to see that the meeting opens with a bang. He has one of the safest tracks In the state ready for the opening, and by far the greatest array of thoroughbreds possible to assemble with the New York, Maryland and Kentucky seasons under way, and the Chicago opening in the near future to compete with the eight daily races and the six stakes to be offered during the three and one-half weeks of sport. Reeder has surrounded himself with a crack staff of racing officials. Serving with him in the stewards stand will be Samuel C. Nuckols, who for nearly twenty years officiated in the same capacity in Kentucky. Nuckols has been a steward at Tropical Park, Coney Island, Narragansett Park, New Orleans, Oriental Park and other major tracks. He commands the respect of the horsemen and jockeys and, although always willing to consider an infraction of a rule from all angles, he does not tolerate any violators. Judge C. A. Pippen, prominent Dallas jurist, will represent the Texas Racing Commission. Emmet Hileman, long an assistant to racing secretaries and placing judge at Fair Park last year; Charles A. Kenney, a member of the younger generation of racing officials, and A. J. Heffernan, will act as placing judges. Jack Hodgins, who has been an assistant starter for nearly twenty years, returns as starter after serving in the same capacity last fall. Max Murphy, another prominent Chicago racing official, will act as patrol judge. A. J. Heffernan will double as paddock judge. Judge Reeder announced that he would also have an eligible list. The "Daily Double" will be used on the first and second races. Post time for the first race will be two oclock. From all indications the best band of sprinters which could be mustered will vie for honors in the State Fair of Texas Handicap, the first of the stakes to be offered. With such renowned stars as Marooned and others, it should provide the most thrilling contest of Fair Park racing. The greater Dallas Handicap also should prove to be a spirited affair. It will be decided at one mile as the feature of the first Saturday program and a field of ten probably will go postward. Other stakes are the Juvenile, the Fort Worth, the Texas Central Centennial and the Fair Park Handicaps. Charles Yates, former trainer for the Nix and Hunter Stable, and William Ryan, checked in this morning with the horses he is training for W. D. Reynolds and the members of his family. Those he unloaded are Spanish Custom, Gomez, Otra, Vez, and Aniela G. Frank Seremba shipped the Joseph Cat-tarinich stable to Aurora. E. B. Shipp sent five head along in the same car. In addition to Tracker, Magenta and Sweepogan, W. C. Reichert has the two-year-olds, Miss Ritz, Miss Sensation, Free-burg Boy, Orway and Independent Way at Fair Park. They were vanned over thi3 morning. Walter Wheeling is training Axial, Beckoned, Corrymeela and Seady for the Fish-burn stable. Waldo Freeman got away for Churchill Downs with Liz F. and two others of the stable today. Jack Hodgins will have Whighoiise, Tom Cropper, Eric Blind and Frank Carr as assistants. The nomination of Joe Flores for the State Fair of Texas Handicap and the Greater Dallas Handicap arrived late Monday. The latter was mailed before the closing time for the stakes.
