Arlington Park Notes, Daily Racing Form, 1939-07-24

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ARLINGTON PARK NOTES Robert S Eddy Jr general manager of the New Orleans Fair Grounds and other tracks was a Classic visitor He will return to New Orleans and after a brief stay will go to New York for the opening of the Saratoga season Izzy Goodman and Sam Dinkelspiel Louis ¬ ville racing enthusiasts were here for Sat ¬ urdays Classic remaining over for the ball games Sunday SundayClarence Clarence E Lehr head of the Detroit Rac ¬ ing Association which just completed a suc ¬ cessful meeting came over from the Motor City with a party of friends to view the big race from a clubhouse box boxJos Jos A Murphy a director of the Chicago Business Mens Racing Association and Mrs Murphy paid another visit to Arling ¬ ton Saturday Chas Krutckoff and Thomas McHale also prominent figures in the man ¬ agement of Hawthorne track also visited the track trackHeggy Heggy Dent turf editor of the Louisville CourierJournal was on hand to cover the eleventh running of the Classic stakes stakesAl Al Copland veteran New York turf writer who is here for his paper the Daily News is visiting Chicago races for the first time since 1894 1894Monte Monte Murro ace cameraman for the Fox Movietone News was injured while shooting Arlington scenes Monte tumbled off the platform atop his car was rushed to a hos ¬ pital at Mt Prospect for examination and from there to his Chicago home His injuries are not serious and he was out Saturday covering the Classic ClassicThe The clean up squad of ticket men who gather stubs from early arrivals at the track before the gates are officially opened had a busy morning Classic day Several hun dred patrons were on hand before that time I necessitating the additional work j A B Letellier New Orleans business man and owner of several horses was an inter ¬ ested clubhouse guest guestR R S Shelley is distributing Saratoga con ¬ dition books and they are available to horse ¬ men at his offices


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