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I jf C I e c s a . : 3 j i 1 ALL MODERN DEVICES USED Omaha Equipped With Camera and Bahr Starting Gate. Horsemen Almost Unanimous in Choice o2 Bahr Starting Device Introduce New Totalizator. OMAHA, Neb., April 25. The latest mod- . em improvements of the raca track, the camera finish and the starting gate, will again be in use at the Ak-Sar-Ben race meeting, first to introduce them in the mid-dlewest. W. H. Schellberg, chairman of Ak-Sar- . Bens racing board, today announced thr.t contract had again been entsred into with Earl Harvey for the operation of his "eye-in-the-sky" camera, which proved eo successful last year. v The Bahr starting gate will again be used at the coming Ak-Sar-Ben meeting, as a result of a poll of horsemen who attend the Omaha meeting each year. "We found the horsemen almost unanimous in their choice of this type of starting gate, so we have again arranged for its use here," Schellberg said. With the introduction this year of the Pacific Pari-Mutuel totalizator, first ever used in the middle-west, the Ak-Sar-Ben track will present to its patrons all of the latest improvements. The Bahr gate arrived at the track this week, and is being installed in the three-quarter chute by track superintendent Jimmy Ronin, in order that horsemen already on the ground may use it for schooling. With the opening day, May 23, less than five weeks off, all of the preliminary arrangements have been disposed of, and if necessary, the meeting could open tomorrow. There are upward of 125 racers on the ground, and the colony is increasing daily. Ben Holmes, Ak-Sar-Bens new racing secretary, advised officials that he would arrive in Omaha about May 1, and would then go east to contact horsemen at various tracks which open after that date.
