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KY. DERBY INNOVATIONS 10,000 New Seats at 50 Cents Per Head to Be Erected. Likewise Mutuels Will Be Provided for That Day Only Everyone Can See the Big Race. Col. Matt Winn announced Monday that he has made arrangements to take care of those unable to pay the regular admission prices of Derby Day and to wager in the mutuels under the present minimum .00, by ordering the construction of a new field stand on the eastern turn of the Churchill Downs track to which the admission will be 50 cents and with .00 mutuels prevailing. Colonel Winn has been contemplating this move for some time in answer to a demand from the poorer families of Louisville who have wanted to see the Derby but were unable to meet the admission prices. There has been criticism that-outsiders monopolize the biggest event staged annually in the Falls City, shutting out the home foks. However, Colonel Winn stated that anybody who. comes to Louisville and wishes to pay the fifty-cent admission price and watch the race from that vantage point will be welcome. The generalissimo of the Derby forces is leaving Chicago either Tuesday or Wednesday for Louisville, to spend the holidays wiln his daughter, who resides there. While in Louisville he will go over the box reservations with Daniel E. OSullivan, resident-manager of Churchill Downs. He said that he hoped no new boxes would have to be constructed, but judging from the early demand this year, feared it would be necessary to do so to take care of the requests. Reverting to the new fifty-cent stand, Winn said that because of the great amount of dirt removed last year in terracing the infield, the job of constructing the new ter- Continued on eighteenth page. KY. DERBY1NN0YATI0NS Continued from first page. race and stand on the eastern end of the track will be comparatively easy. The view j of the track from this stand will be as good as from any spot on the grounds. Churchill Downs today, with its additions of last year, plus the new stand and terrace, will be easily able to take care of a crowd of 100,000. The one dollar mutuels for the cheaper enclosure is to eliminate the bookies who infest the backstretch every Derby Day. Much trouble has been caused for the Downs management and for the local police by the gentry who book bets and then cannot be found when the player picks a winner. With dollar mutuels, which will hold good Derby Day only, those who have only a small amount of money to wager can place their bets just the same as those who have box seats in the clubhouse and access to the mutuel machines. Besides the fifty-cent admission fee and dollar mutuels, Colonel Winn is installing concession stands where the working man and his family can buy soft drinks, milk and coffee for five cents. It promises to be a Roman holiday for the less fortunate families of Louisville, who heretofore have lined the streets and stood outside the fences of the Downs getting their Derby views and informtaion second hand from those on the inside.
