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i REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES 0. V. Whitney Announces There Will Be No Increase for Match. War Admiral and Seabiscuit to Stage Their Match Before Crowd Admitted Under, Regular Scale. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 26. Regular admission prices will prevail for the 00,000 holiday race between Seabiscuit and War Admiral at Belmont Park on Memorial Day, May 30. This announcement was made by C. V. Whitney, vice-president of the Westchester Racing Association, who is in charge of preparations for the big race. Joseph E. Widener, president of the association, is ill at his home in Philadelphia. General admission to the infield for the race will be .50 tax included. Grandstand seats will not be reserved, and daily prices will prevail, .75 tax included for ladies, and .50 tax included for gentlemen. The admission to grandstand includes paddock and the lawn privileges. In the Turf and Field Club and enclosure sections the admission prices will be: Ladies, , .00 tax included and gentlement .00 tax included, the usual scale. "PUBLICS RACE." "This is the publics race," said Whitney. ".The- public demanded it, and we want to make the race available to the largest number of racing enthusiasts." For the last similar race held in New York, the Zev-Papyrus international race in October, 1923, every seat in the stands was reserved. Admission to the paddock and lawn was . Reserved seats in the grandstand were 1. Box seats were 2. It was pointed out that for the War Admiral-Seabiscuit Continued on fifteenth page. REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES Continued from first page. race, 15,000 unreserved seats in the grand-1 stand are available for the grandstand ad-j mission price of only .50 for men and .75 for ladies, and box seats for only and 0 j per seat. The unreserved seats in the grandstand will be available on a first come, first served basis. Unusual accommodations are being made for infield spectators. There will be special admission gates near special train stops and a special parking space for 10,000 automobiles within the grounds on the schooling steeplechase course. Concession booths and other conveniences for infield patrons will be in evidence. The running of the race will j be described over special loud speakers in the infield for the convenience of the infield i crowd. All complimentary tickets except working press will be suspended on the day of the race. Reserved seats on the grandstand roof, considered choice vantage points by racegoers, will sell for tax included. Reserved seats in the Turf and Field Club and enclosure sections will be 0 tax included. Front row box seats in the grandstand will be 0 per seat tax included. There are .six seats in a box. Stretch boxes in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth rows in the west end of the grandstand will be tax included. Boxes in the Turf and Field Club section and in the enclosure section, six seats to j the box, will be 5. But few of these are available because they already have been 1 sold for the season to regular Belmont Park patron:. Mail orders for seats are now being received at the offices of the Westchester Racing Association, room 922, at 250 Park Avenue. J
