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ARLINGTON PARK NOTES fi t and The Post and Paddock Club, major social adjunct to Arlington Park racing, will be well represented at the opening Monday. The attractive cream-colored, red-tile roofed club building, northwest of the main stand, will be the mecca of prominent eastern and western socialites, and the exclusive enclosures and boxes will be bright shrines to Dame Fashion. Officers of the Post and Paddock Club are: President, Laurence H. Armour, president of the American National Bank and member of the Kansas City branch of the famous Armour family; vice-president, Thomas E. Wilson, Chicago industrialist; secretary, Lawrence F. Stern, investment banker; and treasurer, Charles F. Glore, long a partner of Marshall Field III. Chicago sports and turf writers will be guests of the Arlington Park press department at a luncheon in the clubhouse dining room on Sunday, June 23, at 2 p. m. A demonstration and inspection of the "Eye in the Sky," under personal direction of inventor Harry I. Day, will follow the luncheon, and the writers will be enabled to familiarize themselves with the new finish-picture device being introduced in Chicago at thi3 meeting. The famous colors of Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia sportsman, and his daughter-in-law, Mrs. P. A. B. Widener II., will be shown during the Arlington Park meeting, which opens here on Monday, June 29. Head trainer Pete Coyne is en route from New York with a division of seven selected horses which will carry Wideners colors in the stakes, while trainer Dan Stewart has already shipped six horses belonging to the Philadelphian and his daughter-in-law from Hawthorne to Arlington Park. G. D. Widener, a nephew, who also race3 a pretentious stable, likely will ship his crack two-year-old Rellion and other horse3 west for Arlingtons stakes. George H. Foster, secretary of the Illinois State Racing Commission, was a visitor at Arlington Park Saturday. He inspected the commission offices at the course and praised the jockeys school, which will be continued throughout the north side meeting. "Goldie" Michel, agent for the Bennett Creech stable, motored from Detroit with jockey "Chuck" Parvin arriving at Arlington Park Friday. Six of the Creech horses arrived from Detroit Thursday, and thirteen more got in to Arlington Park Friday. Trainer Jack Webber unloaded a shipment of fourteen horses racing for J. Shirley Riley, at Arlington Park Saturday. This string is headed by the useful handicap horses, Jimmie Cabaniss and Born Happy. Trainer Roscoe Goose will campaign thirteen horses at the Arlington Park meeting; Among these are John Marschs Prince John, Black River and Foyot; Mrs. John Marschs Manchof, Saranata and Grey Streak; and his own Busy K., Steel Worker and Arthur B. Five, horses racing for Joseph Cattarinich and trained by Frank Seremba were vanned over from Hawthorne to Arlington Parle Saturday. W. Causeys six horses also got in. The running of the Inaugural Handicap will be broadcast over a nation-wide NBC hookup from Arlington Park Monday afternoon between 4:00 and 4:30 Chicago daylight saving time. Clem McCarthy, noted sports dramatist of the air, will describe the running of the 0,000 added Stars and Stripes Handicap and the remaining five stakes at the meeting over NBC. Racing secretary Charles J. McLennan announces that entries will close at 8:30 a. m. and scratch time will be 10:30 a. m. during the Arlington Park meeting.
