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ANOTHER "DOWNS" ON COAST Columbia Downs New Name for Former Bagley Park at Vancouver, Wash. Rush Improvements. PORTLAND, Ore, April 28. In what may be just a bit more than two weeks of actual effort by man power and mechanical equipment, the Evergreen Empires latest race course, Columbia Downs, will be ready to welcome back the thoroughbred race horse warriors of the American turf. The five furlongs race course, now under reconstruction at Vancouver, Wash, is the former Bagley Park, recently disposed of by Bert Bagley to the Riverton Sportsdrome, Inc., of Portland. This group, on May 15, will begin a season of thoroughbred racing of twenty-eight days possibly a bit more. By the tenth of May, so the reconstruc-tionists report, the course will be ready for public inspection, although the track will be ready for the training of thoroughbreds on May 5, according to the latest calculations of superintendent John Arvin, veteran race track builder of the American turf. In the meantime applications for stabling room are pouring into the offices of the Portland group who will operate the race track. "We will not need more than 600 horses at the top figure to fill our program at Columbia Downs," said general manager Irving L. Hildebrandt
