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RESERVATIONS AT ARLINGTON Requests Already in for 700 Out of 1,250 Available Stalls. Plans for July Meeting at Chicagos Big North Side Track Already Well Under Way. Early interest in the Arlington Park meeting, which runs thirty days, from June 27 through July 30, is manifested by the reservations to date of 700 stalls out of the total of 1,250 available at the spacious north side course, reported Roy Carruthers, secretary and general manager of the Arlington Park Jockey Club, here today. Plans for the mid-wests important midsummer meeting are well under way. While serving as steward at Santa Anita during the winter months, secretary Carruthers found considerable interest in Arlingtons coming meeting among the leading stables wintering in California. With John D. Hertz, chairman of the executive board, and Charles J. McLennan, racing secretary, discovering active interest among the Florida racing colony, many new recruits to Chicago racing are expected from the winter sector. OFFICIALS PLEASED. Arlington Park officials are pleased by the favorable reaction to the recently announced conversion of the 0,000 added Classic Stakes into a futurity, after 1938, a move that will raise the value of this important fixture for three-year-olds into the select group of Americas richest racing events. Mr. Hertz is now in New York after spending the latter part of the Florida racing season at his winter home on Miami Beach. Secretary McLennan left Miami several days ago for Havre de Grave to prepare for the opening of that meeting and to interest horsemen in Arlingtons thirty days of racing, through July. Secretary Carruthers announced that the north side course will be ready to receive horses shortly after June 1. The three tracks the main track, turf course and training track are in excellent condition. Plans for the meeting were formulated this winter in conferences between Hertz, racing secretary Charles J. McLennan and officials of the Arlington Park Jockey Club including Otto W. Lehmann, president; Charles A. Mc-Culloch, chairman of the board of directors; Warren Wright, vice-president; Leonard S. Florsheim, treasurer; Roy Carruthers, secretary, and other directos of the swank Chicago meeting, which this year runs thirty days from June 27.
