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LATEST CHANGE AT AURORA Second Odds-Board Added to Newly Installed Betting Equipment Larger Picture Screen. AURORA, 111., April 20 Profiting by the experience of installations of all other totalizators, the Aurora race track expects to have the most complete wagering system in existence when the Chicago season opens May 2. A second odds-board, built under the stands so that it may be seen from the betting ring, is the latest of the improvements decreed for the Fox Valley track by its president, Robert S. Eddy Jr. Those late changes in odds should not bother Aurora bettors this spring. While they are in line at the mutuel window they can glance up at the board, which will be synchronized with the main board in the infield, and see whether their choice is a "going up" horse or a "going down" horse. Another improvement is the construction of a screen, seven feet wide, on which to flash the picture of the close finishes. Few photo finish screens have been bigger than five feet and Auroras new one will enable the horses to be pictured almost life size. EIGHT-CAR TRAIN. President Eddy also announced that an eight-car train, carrying between eighty and one hundred thoroughbreds, left the Fair Grounds at New Orleans yesterday and is due to arrive at the Aurora siding tomorrow or Saturday. Many owners requested permission to remain at the Fair Grounds after that meeting closed until they were certain that there would be no more unusual weather and freak snow storms here.. They have finally decided to take a chance and move northward. The shipment is of fit horses that need but a few workouts to be ready for the long campaign ahead of them. They make up the largest single shipment to the Fox Valley oval this month. Work on the new "tote" is 92 per cent completed. It will be the first "tote" to issue combination across the board mutuels. President Robert S. Eddy Jr. has given horsemen at the Fair Grounds permission to remain in their barns there until April 20 before shipping, which is an extension of five days.
