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CLOSE TO 10,000 PERSONS Present at Arlington Downs for Opening Despite Bad Weather. Completely Revamped riant With New Racing Strip Pleases Patrons of Texas Jockey Club. ARLINGTON, Texas, Oct. 22. With the weatherman falling down miserably, the Texas Jockey Club was forced to launch Its autumn meeting at Arlington Downs here this afternoon under handicaps, yet in spite of cold and intermittently wet weather the season opened auspiciously as close to 10,000 persons saw the session ushered in with some of the most exciting sport ever staged in the Southwest. The gathering of turf enthusiasts constituted a fine testimonial not only to the efforts of the track owners, E. Paul and Guy L. Waggoner, to maintain Arlington Downs as one of the worlds most advanced plants, but to the increased popularity of racing in this area, as well. With allowances for the disagreeable weather, the attendance was far above expectations, auguring well for another successful stay of the thoroughbreds at this pioneer course. With the opening the Texas Jockey Club introduced numerous improvements, including a new improved de luxe totalizator and new racing strip. The "tote," while only operated in part, made an instant hit as did the new track of thirty feet more than one mile and a sixteenth with wide straightaways and sweeping, banked turns. Completely redecorated and every part of the mammoth plant spic and span, patrons did not seem to mind the raw bleak weather, so bright and comfortable were the immediate surroundings. REAPING WINNER. Charles Parke piloted one of the more important winners when, he directed Reaping to victory in the fourth race. Reaping won i by three lengths. Recovery was second, two lengths before Hastinola. Infidox failed to finish better than fourth. Away very slowly he expended much energy attaining a contending position, only to weaken from the effort as Reaping was disposing of Recovery and piling up the big margin by which he registered. A Texas stable, that of Reynolds Bros., furnished the winner of the first race of the day and meeting, when in a sprint of two-year-olds, Angelita, a daughter of Yield Not, outgamed the heavily backed favorite, Albino, owned by Mrs. A. M. Creech, to take the three-quarters contest by a neck. Kerry Ways, furnished by Gladacres Farm, accounted for minor honors a length and one-half back, and with only a head to spare over Flying Breeze. Three others completed the field. SPIRITED CONTEST. The second race in which eight from among the medium flight platers of three-year-olds or older compared speed over the Waggoner course of six and one-half furlongs also resulted in a spirited contest and close, finish with D. L. Ogles Saxon three-year-old Top Tax the winner by a half length over Beginners Bait. Bunny Martin, which stumbled shortly after the start, recovered sufficiently to garner third honors as Back Log led Ottoman, which was the choice, and the three others. Lumillion, six-year-old Luminist gelding, owned by Mrs. L. R. Knifong, proved the first decisive winner, when in accounting for the third race over one mile and seventy yards, he turned back Dark Mist, Fair Cynthia in emphatic fashion. Apprentice T. Dow-ell sent the Knifong performer to the front approaching the final half mile and, once in the van, he held sway in commanding style to win by two lengths.
