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MARK TIME AT AURORA Opening of Chicago Racing Season Only Hours Away. Fox Valley Track Prepared for Inaugural With New Camera For Deciding Close Finishes. AURORA, 111., April 27 Officially it must wait until Saturday, but the Aurora race track will be in operation unofficially tomorrow. Test races will be run for the benefit of the Waite Moving Picture Camera, mutuel clerks will be on hand for the first roll call of the 1937 season, and racing secretary Dick Leighs office will be busy taking entries for the opening day feature, the Fox Valley Inaugural Handicap. Charles Waite, developer of the camera to be used throughout the nineteen-day meeting, which ends with the running of the Illinois Derby, is to put his machine through tests tomorrow for the approval of representatives of the state racing commission. A field of several ponies will be recruited from the many stables now at the track to run these trial events at 3 p. m. TESTS CAMERA. Mr. Waite has already tested his camera at Aurora and has found it possible to put a picture in the stewards hands within two and one-half minutes after the finish of each race. Prints for the public to examine will be available shortly after that time and are to be posted in three prominent positions. The Waite camera operates at a speed of from 105 to 120 pictures per second, and numerous improvements have been added since its successful use during last winters New Orleans meeting. Only a day or two of dry weather is needed for Placide Frigerio to have the track in the best of shape for the opening card of eight races. So numerous are the thoroughbreds working over the track these mornings that the oval is crowded almost to capacity from dawn until 10 a. m. "DAILY DOUBLE" SCHEDULED. General manager Robert S. Eddy, Jr., has announced that the "Daily Double" will be on the second and third races at Aurora, and "Quinella" betting will be on the eighth race. Aurora is the only local track featuring the "Quinella," which means picking two horses to run one-two or two-one in the final race. Post time for the first race each day is 2:15, and Mr. Eddy intends to see to it that there are no delays between events, with the final contest run off no later than 5:30 each afternoon. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad will operate two specials daily from the Union Station, leaving at 12:40 and 1 p. m., the first train stopping at Western and Cicero Avenues. On Saturdays an ad--ditional train will leave at 12:50. The Chicago, Aurora and Elgin will run trains connecting by bus with the track at 11:05, 12:05, 12:50, 1:05 and 2:05. Bus service from various points also will serve the track.
