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C. B. HEAD CHICAGO ARRIVAL Comes From Louisville to Open Lincoln Fields Offices. Col. M. J. Winn Makes Plans to Weatherproof Popular Outdoor Dining Room Divide Official Staff. C. Bruce Head, general manager of the Lincoln Fields Jockey Club, arrived in Chicago yesterday to open the tracks offices in preparation for the approaching meeting. The beautiful Crete plant opens a twenty-four-day meeting on Decoration Day and is in operation until June 25. Col. Mat- Winn, at present in Louisville supervising the arrangements for Americas No. 1 race, the Kentucky Derby, will take active charge of Lincoln Fields after the running of the feature Due to Churchill Downs closing on the holiday at the same time the Crete track starts, the staffs, of the two will have to be divided for a time. Work has progressed rapidly at the south side track during the recent good weather. A delay in the construction of the new totalizator was caused by difficulties installing the conduit under the track, but that has been finished now and the course is back in condition for workouts when the ifirst thoroughbreds begin their conditioning there soon. Colonel Winn has also planned some alterations in the new jutdoor dining room that proved so popular at the meeting last fall. It will be weather proofed this year and made ready for any bad days which may turn up in June. Stake blanks for the five ,000 added features at Crete this spring are in the hands Continued on fifteenth yago. 51 C. B. HEAD CHICAGO ARRIVAL Continued from first page J of horsemen. Entries close for the stakes on May 10, and the early returns indicate the best df fields. The Crete Handicap, at six furlongs, will serve as the Decoration Day feature. It is for three-year-olds and upward. Little work on the stands remains to be done to have the plant ready for the meeting. The extensive construction work of ast summer left Lincoln Fields second to none in beauty and in convenience. The main problem facing track superintendent Tom Young and his assistants this spring is the changing of some of the shrubbery and flowers. .This has been necessitated by the switch from fall to spring dates.
