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t AURORA TURF NOTES $ s There were eight carloads from Arlington Downs arriving Monday morning in a special train which left Sunday morning, the lot including several Derby candidates in Flag. Cadet, Rushaway, Lolschen, Palm Island, Sir Gawaine and others. Arriving ahead of the horses were many jockeys, either by train or motor, which included Charles "Chuck" Parke, Carlos Mo-jena, Frank Chojnacki and other leading riders of the country. There were hundreds of visitors to the Fox Valley course on Sunday, the first "inspection day" of the year and they were highly complimentary for the splendid appearance of the course. General manager Robert Eddy and his corps of assistants were on hand to take the visitors around the plant, they being especially impressed with the magnitude of the new rhutuel plant constructed since the close of last season. Joseph Cattarinich, co-owner of the Aurora plant, along with Mr. Eddy, was an arrival from New York on Sunday morning and lost no time in making the trip to Aurora. He was especially pleased with the general condition of the. improvements. Charles Campau, placing judge and clerk of the scales, was an arrival from New Orleans, and with the arrival of stewards Bradley and Ireland on Tuesday, the official roster will be completed. Ralph Stubbs, long an attache of the mu-tuel department and secretarys office at Aurora, left Sunday for Nnrragnnsctt Park, where he will work with Mort Shaw. Oscar Bachman, supervisor of the mutuel plant at Aurora for the Illinois State Commission, was a visitor Sunday with the largest delegation coming from Chicago. Frankie Otis will work as combination paddock and patrol judge at Aurora along with Tom Craven. George Swain, who has worked on most of the Illinois tracks, will be another new attache to the sccrotminl of fice at Aurora. On Saturday two carlomhs nrrlvod from Arlington Downs, which InolmloU the Dclbv nominee of R. T. Walls, My Aimtlo, nml eight others. In the same car woro thrca Tot J. J. Kaufman. In the nucomt cur weto ol;ht head for Mrs. C. C. WintoiH, four for Ben Fullwider and three for George Kecton. Other arrivals were two for S. .1. Molay, with his Inaugural Handicap starter, Fire Advance. Those unloading were B. Berry, thrrJe; Star Buckland, seven; R. M. Chastain, three; Mrs. A. M. Creech, nineteen; R. A. Coward, six; L. L. Chambers, two; Clarence Davidson, seventeen; R. Fischer, three; Ross Higdon, fifteen; Mrs. J. Hubbard, five; A. G. Tarn, eight; B. Manziel, four; J. Massey, two; Mrs. S. Orr, five; Virgil Oden, six; J. Oros, fifteen; Three Ds Stable, ten; F. A. Riley, five; F. L. Talley, four; B. Hernandez, fifteen; Clyde Troutt, ten; Mrs. H. O. Simmons, six, and E. Sigman, six. The horses of E. K. Bryson, numbering twelve, are due in Tuesday morning from Maryland, including the Illinois Derby candidate, Carvola.
