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MAKE READY FOR INAUGURAL . Illinois Racing Commissions Mutuel Representative Confers With Jos. Cattarinich Regarding Aurora. AURORA, 111., April 27. Commission officials are expected to check in at Aurora today or tomorrow, in order to begin the preliminary work necessary in connection with the opening. Oscar Bachman, who acts as the commissions representative in the mutuels, was in conference in Chicago over the week-end with Auroras mutuels manager, Joseph Cattarinich, and the two were expected to spend today at Aurora straightening out the final details of operation in the new mutuels department. The commission steward, Chris. FitzGer-ald, was expected to arrive from New York also, and the task of passing upon license applications will occupy much of his time until the opening bugle sounds Friday. The demand for licenses is always heavier at Aurora than at any other Chicago track because horsemen who expect to remain during the season need not renew the permits they secure at the Fox Valley track. Applications, particularly those for trainers and jockeys licenses, will be scrutinized closely by FitzGerald and the two other stewards, John T. Ireland and Thomas C. Bradley. The names of the three patrol judges now required at each track were announced yesterday by president Robert S. Eddy at Aurora. They are Tom Craven, Frank Otis and George Swain, all of whom have had long experience in Chicago and in other racing centers.
