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ULTRA-MODERNISTIC ARLINGTON DOWNS OPENING Texas Jockey Club Presents One of Americas Finest Racing Grounds Entire New Racing- Strip and New Electric Totalisator Among Improvements More Than 00,000 in Stakes and Purses Offered for Meetitng ARLINGTON, Texas, Oct. 21. Prepared to present in an ultra modernistic setting, the most attractive racing since the sports return to this largest of the states, the Texas Jockey Club is launching at its Arlington Downs course here tomorrow a meeting of thirty-three days, likely to produce many new standards and records for the southwest turf. A keener interest never was manifest on the eve of a fall opening. Proportionately the number of outstanding horses, top bracket jockeys and fashionable stables is greater than ever before, and the splendor and lavishness of the course, one of the nations finest, are some of the principal factors pointing to five and one-half weeks of history-making sport When the gates swing wide tomorrow, the Waggoner brothers, E. Paul and Guy L., sons of the late Col. William T. Waggoner, who as champion of the cause of racing, overthrew stern opposition in a long, difficult and at times dispiriting tussle before barriers blocking its return to Texas were removed, will introduce one of the worlds most advanced plants. STARTLING CHANGES. Modernized with a brand new improved electrically-controlled totalizator, replete in every safeguard for the wagering public, sporting an entirely new racing strip thirty feet more than one mile and a sixteenth in circumference, conceded to be one of the finest and fastest, plus a safe cushion, completely redecorated from end to end, all appointments in grandstand and clubhouse brought up to the minute, graded and resurfaced roads and parking grounds, plus much of the cream of American thoroughbreds booked for winter racing, famous stables and noted jockeys, the Waggoner track is ready for what should prove its most colorful, important and successful period of operation. Maintaining a superfine plant always has been the policy of the Texas Jockey Club, yet introduction of the new De Luxe Totalizator, said to be the latest and finest machine assembled by the American Totalizator Company, marks another step forward for the Waggoners, who since the return of racing to the Lone Star State have constantly improved every feature of Arlington until now it rightfully compares with the nations standout tracks and is truly "metropolitan" in every particular. WAGGONER MEMORIAL. With a programmed purse distribution oi more than 00,000 and a long list of stakes and handicaps, topped by the 5,000 added Waggoner Memorial Handicap, to be run on Saturday, November 15, the Texas Jockey Club has attracted from all parts of the turf map a sparkling array of thoroughbreds including Top Row, last years Waggoner Handicap winner and victor in the last 00,000 Santa Anita Handicap, the worlds richest race; Stand Pat, Ted Clark, Rosselli Where Away, Bold Lover, Our Count, Mary-nell, Infidox, Star Shadow, Split Second Rushaway, Appealing, Camisado, Danger Point, Mr. Blaze, Croon, Bachelor Dinner Bay Bubble, Reaping, Miss Dolphin, Rifted Continued on thirty-tilth page. ULTRA-MODERNISTIC ARLINGTON DOWNS OPENING Continued from first page. Clouds, Woodlander, Biography, Sablin, Tempestuous and scores of others. The first running of the Southwest Breeders Futurity, formerly the Texas Futurity, renewals of the Inaugural Handicap, tomorrows stake attraction; West Texas Handicap, Dallas Handicap, Arlington Handicap, Juvenile Handicap, and Fort Worth Handicap, along with several other richly endowed races, also are listed on the card of features. NOTED JOCKEYS. Here, to ride the colorbearers of the many famous owners, included among the proprietors of the 1,000 or more horses awaiting engagements during the thirty-three days, are many outstanding jockeys and apprentices including: L. Haas, J. Longden, G. Woolf, T. Luther, M. L. Fallon, L. Turner, C. Parke. W. Cornay, L. McDermott, R. Hight-shoe, H. Albrecht, H. Callahan, E. De Prang, P. McClelland. H. Hughes, R. Haber. C. Mc-Tague, F. Mann, A. Morgan, W. Morgan, among others, and Wayne Wright, conceded to be one of the best, along with C. Corbett and others will be pilgrimaging this way in time to appear at Arlington within a few days after the opening. The roster of owners whose horses will vie for the glory and gold of Arlingtons longest meeting, holds such famous names as Edward F. Seagram, H. M. Woolf. T. C. Worden, Waggoner Brothers, John C. Palmer, A. A. Baroni, A. Pelleteri, Mrs. A. M. Creech, L. J. Lepper, Edward Haughton, Mrs. Floyd West, Kleberg Brothers. William C. Stroube, T. T. Pendleton, Mrs. V. Wyse, Dr. C. N. Mooney, A. G. Tarn, J. D. Norris, Jr., E. F. Woodward, S. T. Gaines, E. R. Fain, R. R. Russell, Richard B. George, H. C. Rum-age, N. Hernandez, R. O. Higdon, F. M. Koontz, G. B. McCamey, A. A. Young, and others. OFFICIAL, STAFF. Engagement of Samuel C. Nuckols as steward in charge of racing and William Shelley as assistant steward, and the re-engagement of Charles J. McLennan as racing secretary and handicappcr and Roy Dickerson as starter, gives the Texas Jockey Club one of the etrongest and mostficient official staffs it has had. Judges Nuckols and Shelley are veteran racing officials and each has served at many other major tracks, including the famous Churchill Downs course, home of the Derby, with distinction. Their coming to Arlington Downs together with the return of McLennan and Dickerson is in keeping with the desire of the Texas Jockey Club to keep racing at the Waggoner track in the most capable hands available. L. C. Bogenschutz and Charles Kenney, alternating as paddoek judges, and Sidney Brown, who will share duties as clerk of the scales, will act as placing judges. Emmett Hileman and Frank Otis are the patrol judges. With the most attractive inaugural in its history, Arlington Downs will plunge into the very center of the nations sporting spotlight with the commencement of its meeting. Eleven, including several rising young stars, have accepted for the ,000 added Inaugural Handicap, six furlongs dash for tomorrows card, while several other of the events will also bring out horses of class. INAUGURAL FIELD. Heading the. field for the Inaugural, which is conditioned for two-year-olds exclusively, and for which twenty-five nominations were received, are such flashy juveniles as Cami-sado and Danger Point, owned by J. D. Norris, Jr.; A. G. Tarns Mr. Blaze; Richard De Lavals Papenie; Three Ds Stock Farms Waggoner brothers Heelfly and Gin Daisy, and D. Redfields Virginia J., while others completing the overnight field are Reynold Bros-. Col. Goodnight; Bedford Stock Farms Hearty; Motor City Stables Paris Model, and Mrs. V. Wyses East Port. Mr. Blaze will carry top weight of 119 pounds, with Camisado contesting under 116 pounds; Heelfly under an impost of 114 pounds, and Gin Daisy and Danger Point under 113 pounds, but indications point to a wide open contest, and the high weights are expected to encounter stern opposition from those issued less testing weight assignments. Another handicap, the Cow Puncher, is next in importance to the feature. This will bring out six of three years old or over to match strides over one mile and seventy yards. They are Heartbreak, Brilliant Light, Kievan, Asyouwere, Boiling Point and Martin Barton. PREPARATIONS COMPLETED. Six other races complete the program with a two oclock starting time for introductory day. Should weather and racing conditions remain as today for the opening a, large crowd is anticipated. As preparations for the meeting were completed, bright seasonable weather prevailed, and the new racing strip was in such superb condition that some horsemen came out with predictions that it would prove one. of the fastest ever known. With many social, civic and business leaders from Dallas, Ft.. Worth, and surrounding towns having reservations for the day, tomorrows attendance will be one of the most representative in the history of the track. Numerous Dallas and Ft Worth hostesses are entertaining large and small parties with luncheon parties before the opening races. Arrangements to accommodate near capacity throngs in both clubhouse and grand stand enclosures have, been made by the managc- nie.?-u j,ii uti! I A tu-n Hi
