To Move Big Totalizator: All Detachable and Movable Parts to be Transferred from Homewood to Arlington Park, Daily Racing Form, 1935-06-29

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f 1 3 A a i s ol of s — — s F . o of f tl a I n I V .- tl f at a - p t be b e h t, - n d ti i h r p in a a a t • J j c t a 5 v l" e c J i j ■ 0 of is ■* 0 my c s a n ■IS r l_ j i * * n " J ■ k ie J d e. j I in n 1 IS j | I ■. d j * of jf 1 TO MOVE BIG TOTALIZATOR All Detachable and Movable Parts s to Be Transferred From Home- wood to Arlington Park. E For the past several days a steady stream huge vans — horse! pullmans they call them have pursued a course from Washington Park to Arlington Park, where thirty days racing will commence Monday. Each of these vans carries from six to eight horses -e and they have been and will be for the Jp next few days continuously on the move be- . 5 tween the two tracks to transfer those of the Washington Park horses that will be ** of the north side course. Shortly after the last race at Washington 1 Q Park this afternoon another caravan will f Q. started towards Arlington, but it will not - to have anything to do with horses. This mo- " be torcade will transport the detachable and movable portions of the huge all-electric totalizator, with which Chicago racing fans v have become so well acquainted with in its j J1 previous and pioneer use at Arlington Park. " J Every selling machine at the south side "• l. track will be transferred to Arlington to be set up and connected with stationary _ cables which lead to the master board. Other ticket-issuers already are attached and the j additions from Washington Park will pro- 1 J vide Arlington Park patrons with accommo- ■ dations exceeding those at any other Ameri- v can track. Henry L. Straus, head of the , Y American Totalizator Co., is in direct charge j f the transfer and he says the Arlington I tote will be ready for a perfect test at 3 j oclock Sunday afternoon. a — "j Except for presence of the horses with 1 colors up, Arlington will present the same J c scenes tomorrow afternoon as when the e meeting will be in progress. Mort Shaw, di- " «, in rector of the totalizator department, will to x have his entire crew in action and the mem-r_ bers of other departments will be receiving 5 r their final instructions. c . c Yesterday morning saw the arrival at j Arlington Park of the following stables: A • G. Tarn, five horses; H. G. Bedwell, six; ; 5 , Dixiana, three; W. T. Westrope, six; J. E. !" Widener, four; E. Haughton, twelve; J. V. Stewart, six; Amalgamated, six; T. C. Wor-;e ■L den, twelve; Mose Lowenstein, seventeen, and Phil Reilly, four. AH of these horses a were vanned from Washington Park. !


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