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CHESNEY FIRST ON GROUND Unloads Major String at Fairmount Park for Long Meeting. Professor Paul and Transview Ready for Competition After Slight Let-Up in Training. COLLINS VILLE, 111., April 12. To Jim Chesney, the veteran Belleville turfman, falls the honor of unloading the first major stable for the twenty-seven day spring meeting at Fairmount Park, commencing Saturday, May 6. Seven equines, headed by the handicap horses, Professor Paul and Transview, and including Cristate, Madcap Yankee, John Shouse, Hiddenite and Our Justice, were shipped in yesterday from Hot Springs, and as Chesney bedded down stalls for the string, said he would point Professor Paul and Transview for the Inaugural handicap, six furlongs feature of the opening program. The Chesney stable, unlike past winters, was not heard from much this year. But Chesney explained yesterday that due to his ill health the establishment laid up at Hot Springs all winter, and the horses were not seen under colors until the recent campaign at that point. Not pushed much during that session, Chesney expects his stable to return to winning form here, especially as his color-bearers have always shown a fondness for the local strip. "Transview right now is on razor edge and could start tomorrow," said Chesney yesterday. "But it wont be long before Professor Paul, too, will be at the peak of his form. I had the Professor fired after the meeting here last fall, and I blistered him at Hot Springs before the meeting. I believe they will make a formidable entry in the Inaugural handicap." HANAUER VACATIONING. Chesney revealed his contract rider, the diminutive Charley Hanauer, will be here in two weeks. "Whataman" is presently vacationing in his home town of Dallas, Texas. Three other smaller establishments checked in across the river during the day. C. Vanscoy came in with a pair, Marlie May and Apple Annie; R. Hughes unloaded He Devil and Carefully, the former a winner here last fall, and N. Burkhart brought in Ultidue and Loumad, the former a winner here also last fall. General manager D. C. Burnett got in from Chicago yesterday afternoon after attending to the straightening out of dates with the Illinois commission of both the spring and fall meetings, and declared himself as greatly pleased with the setup. "Our twenty-seven-day meeting starting May 6 and running through June 10 on a five-day week plan, excluding Mondays, should, turn out to be one of the best in the history of the course," said Burnett on his arrival. "It means we will have six Saturday plums and Decoration Day, and since records show we invariably have big weekend crowds, it should insure the success of the coming meeting, especially as we are going to have better thoroughbreds here than in years." An extra crew of workmen were ordered to work at the track yesterday to get things in readiness.
