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i ANNOUNCE PLANS FOR NEW 00,000 DAYTON TRACK 1 l DAYTON, Ohio, June 3. Plans for the construction of a mile track at a cost of 00,000, were announced here today by Ben Hagerdorn of Norwood, Ohio, and the location of the new course is to be a quarter of a mile beyond the city limits of Dayton. Those reported as interested in the new project, which has been incorporated under the title of Dayton Downs, are Donald W. Smith, Texas oil operator, who is a resident of Huntington, W. Va.; Theodore Zum-stein of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Hagerdorn. Erection of a grandstand and erection of the buildings is scheduled to be started in the near future, according to Hagerdorn, who served as general manager of the Dayton Jockey Club in the fall of 1933. It is anticipated that the plant will be completed " about the middle of July, at which time ap- plication for dates will be entered with the Ohio "racing commission. Refusal of the Montgomery county board to permit the use of its grounds for the staging of a race meeting is said to be one of the chief reasons for the proposed new track.
