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if HOLLYWOOD PARK NOTES 4 With the imminent arrival of families of horsemen, who will race their best horses at the initial thirty-three-day meeting of the Hollywood Turf Club, June 10 to July 23, at Inglewood, general manager Jack Mackenzie announces the formation of a rental bureau by the Inglewood Chamber of Commerce, through the realty board of that up and coming city. Secretary Robert S. Hartman, of the Chamber of Commerce, has been alert to the fact that owners, trainers, jockeys and employees of the Hollywood Turf Club must be provided with living quarters. Every dwelling in Inglewood is being thoroughly canvassed for houses, rooms and apartments. A small army of painters is tackling the stupendous job of "dolling up" the structure. Silver and sea green are the exterior colors. Willie Crump, trainer of the Texas-owned King Ranch Stable, has requested stalls for fourteen horses. Included in the band is the fleet two-year-old Don Manners. James W. Coffroth, famous pugilistic promoter and the man who instituted the Coffroth Handicap, and Kimball Patterson, trainer of many illustrious thoroughbreds, were visitors to the new track recently. C. D. Zimmerman and S. J. "Stub" Norris, owner and trainer, respectively, of Mr. Blaze, Keene Jack and other good speedsters, were visitors. Zimmerman made stall and box reservations with Joe Walters. Presiding steward Edmond G. Soule saw Seabiscuit run last week-end and then stayed over for a few days in Oakland. Early-rising, hard-working dockers will get the "breaks" at Hollywood Park. A well-ventilated, air-cooled "dockers house" is being constructed on the back stretch between the five and one-half and five-eighths post, while vast office space Is being provided under the grandstand for their afternoon work. Ross Cooper, well known western trainer who has been vacationing in the mountain regions of Oregon, returned to Hollywood Park Thursday and made stall and box reservations. Headed by the great mare, Brown Jade, Cooper has twenty-one horses under his care at Santa Anita. This stable will be transferred to Hollywood Park as soon as superintendent Frank Kelley gives the word that the racing course is ready. This should be during the week. of May 8. Older riders who had things pretty well to themselves at Santa Anita and the current meeting at Bay Meadows, will find the fast-improving apprentice Raymond Adair in their midst when the Hollywood Park meeting gets under way. Young Adair, who rode his first winner in February, is the sensation of the Agua Caliente meeting, and critics and horsemen alike are loud in their praise of the 17-year-old youngster. He is under contract to John Pease Atkins Gor-ban Stable, which is trained by ex-jockey Willie Moltcr. 1
