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1 ! l l I , Kelly Supervising Setting Out Topsoil on Garden State Oval CAMDEN, N. J., May 28. Frank J. Kelly, veteran track builder, is hard at work setting out the topsoil to finish off the new Garden State Park mile racing strip here. Kelly, who built the tracks at Delaware Park, Suffolk Downs and Arlington Park, reported to general manager Walter H. Donovan last Sunday and started his crew to work immediately. "The track should be ready for horses about the first week in July," said Kelly. The 49-day New Jersey meeting will open on July 18 and run through September 12. The mile track has two chutes, one for six furlong and the other for mile and a quarter races. It is 100 feet wide in the front and on the turns, 85 feet wide down the backstretch. The turns are excellently banked, with the outer rim five feet above the inner boundary. The soil, selected after analysis by the Rutgers soil department and very much like that of the Havre de Grace track, will be of sand and loam. It is native to this section and Kelly predicts that itv will provide one of the finest track cush- ions in American racing.
