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SECRETARY SHELLEY DELAYED Sportsmans Park Official Expected to Reach Popular Cicero Track Tuesday or Wednesday. CICERO, 111., Oct. 3. Because of pressure of other business, Robert S. Shelley, general manager and racing secretary at Sportsmans Park, will not arrive here to take charge of his offices until Tuesday or Wednesday, according to word received here today. Shelley had planned to be here from Woodbine on Sunday, but has been called to Narragansett Park on business, after the transaction of which he will come immediately to Chicago. Meanwhile the registration of horses for the Sportsmans Park season, opening on v Monday, October 10, is in the capable hands of Tommy Steele. Stables are drifting in daily and, of course, many already are on hand taking part in the Hawthorne meeting. A majority of the riders who have been in action on the Illinois circuit all season will be here to don silks, according to Frank Miller, who will have charge of the jockeys room. , With the plant in order, officials of the National Jockey Club are ready right now to throw open their gates to the public. Sportsmans Park is probably the most popular half-mile course in the country, and the management looks forward only to a fair share of good weather for the meeting to be a success.
