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MARKING TIME AT ARLINGTON PARK Stables at Mammoth Northwest Side Plant Filling Up Rapidly Meeting Begins Monday Roll Call of Employes Scheduled for Sunday ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, 111., June 26. Stables at Arlington Park, which can accommodate 1,400 horses, filled rapidly today, with the opening of the thirty-day meeting, which will be marked by the distribution of 00,090 in purse and stake money by the Arlington Park Jockey Club, just three day3 off. Tomorrow morning racing secretary Charles J. McLennan will have the members of his staff at Hawthorne to. facilitate the acceptance of entries for Mondays program, which will be featured by the Arlington Inaugural Handicap. Only the taking of entries tomorrow and the roll call of totalizator and other employes on Sunday remain as details to be completed before the opening of the meeting, as everything else is in readiness, including the newly installed camera on the roof of the grandstand to record the finishes, and the new improved electrically operated information board in the field. Arlington will open with numerous other improvements and changes in vogue, including a new restaurant and cocktail lounge, modernized coffee shop in the grandstand and new quarters for the jockeys beneath the grandstand. The riders formerly had their room in a building in the rear of the paddock, but the new location gives them greater accessibility to the saddling enclosure as well as to the track, and the racing program can be speeded up if necessary as a result. Clarence Brinkman, track superintendent, was gratified by the rain which fell on Arlington last night and this morning, as he has been compelled to draw heavily on the tracks private water system for several weeks to keep the grass and shrubbery, as well as the course itself, in good condition. Horsemen also welcomed the downpour, as it gave promise of putting the track in the finest shape possible for the inaugural program. Continued on seventeenth page. I MARKING TIME AT ARLINGTON PARK Continued from first page. The majority of horses arriving today and the others expected over the week-end came from Hawthorne, Detroit and Latonia. The next stable expected from New York will be that of Joseph E. Widener, in charge of Peter Coyne and it will join the western, division under the direction of D. E. Stewartl Coyne is bringing eight horses, mostly two-year-olds, and they are expected to arrive Monday and will be accompanied by W. D. Wright, the Widener jockey. Robert A. Smith, trainer of the Brook-meade Stable, which will be one of the largest on hand during the meeting, notified the Arlington management that he intends to ship twenty-six horses some time during the coming week. Included in. the group will be Cavalcade, which promises to return to campaigning within a few weeks, as well as Gean Canach and Corundum, candidates for the Arlington Classic. A number of eli-gibles to the Arlington Futurity and Arlington Lassie Stakes also will be brought here by Smith. George Woolf and Michael Corona are the stable jockeys. James W. Healy, trainer for John Hay Whitney, informed Arlington officials that he could be expected for the second weeks racing with eight horses, headed by Mr. ! Bones, winner of the Dwyer and Swift Stakes and a leading prospect for the Classic. Johnny Gilbert is expected to accompany Healy here. Late arrivals were George Brooks with the Shady Brook Farm Stable and William Crump with his medium sized stable, both of which came from Latonia. Nine horses owned by J. W. Parrish, six trained by Auval Baker, those of the Everglade Stable and Sherrill Ward and the Rosedale Stable are others due from the Kentucky course during the next few days. One of the largest establishments at Detroit expected soon is that of J. S. Riley, numbering sixteen horses. Azucar will head the thirteen horses of Fred M. Alger, Jr., in charge of Lex Wilson, while a division of the Bomar Stable trained by J. T. Kermath also is coming from that point. Mrs. A. M. Creech will be represented by twenty horses trained by her husband, Benny Creech. E. W. Duffy, with eight head, is coming from the Motor City Sunday. Expected on hand for the opening is the Araho Stable of Mrs. Walter OHara, which Robert Curran is bringing from New England. Roy Carruthers, Arlingtons managing director, announced today that the admission prices will be to the grandstand and to the clubhouse, tax included. The round trip fare from Chicago on the North Western Railroad will be 75 cents. It also was stated that the "Daily Double" will include the first and second races and post time for the opening event has been set at 2:20 oclock. 4 .
