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BUSY SCENES AT LOUISVILLE Training Activities Speeded Up at Churchill Downs and Douglas Park Latest Gallops. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 7. Although still a bit winter-like, improved weather aroused horsemen at the Churchill Downs and Douglas Park tracks today to greater activities than have been evidenced at the two local courses in almost a week. While neither track offered very desirable footing, both had dried out a great deal since yesterday, and this also had some bearing on the sharp increase in preparatory maneuvers. Although a penetrating wind swept the courses, skies were bright and the weather by far the most favorable for outdoor training since last Wednesday. Several candidates for the sixty-second Kentucky Derby, to be decided on May 2, were among the many horses to work over a slow track at the Downs. Among them were Mrs. Bessie Franzheims Silas; H. H, Cross Captain Cal; J. L. Carricks Water-cure, and J. F. ONeils Judge Kavanagh. Silas, the son of Crucifixion and Fancy Racket, which has quite a following among the present group of horsemen here, went a half mile nicely in hand in :51, while Captain Cal and Judge Kavanagh each breezed three-quarters, the former in 1:25 and the ONeil horse in 1:24. A snappy three-eighths was asked of Watercure, and he was timed in :Z7. He was accompanied by Gray Jack, while Songmaker worked with Captain Cal and with Perdition failing to keep pace with him, Silas virtually worked alone. Mrs. Franzheims Compensatory and R. L. Bakers Yantis, nominees for the Clark Handicap, which will be renewed on April 25, the opening day of the Downs meeting, were other of the better known performers seen in action. Compensatory rattled off a half mile in :51, and Yantis, with Squall as a companion, traveled the mile of the Downs main course in 1:48. He finished about five lengths in front of his stablemate. Arrivals this morning were more numerous for a single day than in some time, with three cars from Miami, one from Hot Springs, and several vans from Lexington and other near points. The horses of Mrs. Emil Denemark, J. W. Parrish, W. G. Sparks, J. P. Hall and Dave Shaw were among those arriving from Tropical Park, while those in the car from Oaklawn Park were the property of M. J. Conley, F. C. McAtee, C. N. Finch, R. L. Stivers, C. Grayson and W. E. Coover. Former jockey James Smith arrived from Lexington with three head. Track superintendent Tom Young was advised that a car bearing the racers of M. N. Porter and A. B. Letellier from New Orleans would reach Douglas Park .early, tomorrow
