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PLAN BIG DAY FOR CHARITY Bay Meadows Donating May 22 Gate and Box Seat Returns. 0,000 Bay Meadows Handicap Feature of That Afternoon Expect Attendance of 30,000 Persons. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., April 13. General manager William P. Kyne and his associates of the Calif ornia Jockey Club, will donate the biggest day of Bay Meadows spring racing season to charity. The entire gate and box seat returns on May 22, the day of the 0,000 Bay Meadows Handicap, will go to the benefit of the Childrens Hospital. A large group of prominent women, headed by Mrs. Walker Henderson, Is sponsoring the event in behalf of the hospital and already an extensive ticket sales campaign Is under way. Associated with Mrs. Henderson In the sponsorship are Mrs. Henry Potter Russell, Mrs. George T. Cameron, Mrs. Paul Fagan, Mrs. Geo. A. Pope, Jr., Mrs. Robert Watt Miller, Mrs. Augustus Taylor, Mrs. Herman Phleger, Mrs. Joseph O. Tobin, Mrs. William P. Roth, Mrs. Fentress Hill, Mrs. Bruce Kel-ham, Mrs. Roger Bocqueraz, Mrs. Dunn Dut-ton, Mrs. Henry Kiersted, Mrs. Latham! McMullin, Mrs. Edmund Lyman, Mrs. Herbert Schmidt, Mrs. Clarence Postley, Mrs. Wakefield Baker, Mrs. Alan Lowrey, Mrs, George Bowles and others. ALL TIME RECORD. While the generous gesture of the Bay Meadows management will relinquish all gate and box profits on its biggest day Kyne is confident an all time record will be established in attendance and mutuel play for a northern California track. With a large field, comprised of many ol Americas outstanding thoroughbreds, assured for the 0,000 Bay Meadows Handicap and the hospital committee covering the entire bay area with an extensive ticket campaign, a record crowd of close to 30,000 is expected to pack the popular San Mateo course. Proceeds are to be used for structural improvements on the hospitals isolation ward. The building which houses this de partment was founded a quarter of a century ago by William Randolph Hearst and has been the scene of much work Important to medical science, according to "Mrs. Henderson. Kyne devoted two of his regular racing days last meeting to charity but his act this season is regarded as even more generouSj
