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Hm... -■■■ ■ Grant Racing Dates To Hollywood Park Board Approves California Tracks Request for Meet From Sept. 1 to Nov. 11 LOS ANGELES, Calif.. April 21.— Hollywood Park will bring racing back to South-era California this fall. The Inglewood track applied for racing dates today and was promptly given the green light" by the California Horse Racing Board. The meeting will open on Friday, September 1, and run to and including November 11 for a duration of 50 days, plus five additional for charity. But the Hollywood Park racing is not all the sport that is in prospect for Los Angeles turf enthusiasts. Representatives of Del Mar and Santa Anita were present and stated they were prepared to. in due course of time, request the board to give its approval to the running of dates for those two tracks at the Inglewood plant next fall and winter, provided their own tracks are not in a position to race on their own grounds. Jack F. Mackenzie made what was to the racing fans a dramatic appeal for a permit shortly after the board met in extra session at its Los Angeles offices this morning. The Hollywood Park general manager stated he had applied to the military authorities at various times heretofore and been denied, but that very recently he had received permission from Lt. Gen. Delos C. . Emmons of the Armys Western Defense Command at San Francisco, to hold a meeting and that he had taken prompt action to revive the sport as soon as practicable. Bay Meadows Makes Objection A Bay Meadows representative strenuously objected to having its scheduled 55-day fall meeting curtailed, and when the board steadfastly insisted that the San Mateo dates must be revised because they had originally been granted with the reser- I vation that they would be changed in the event racing should return to the Los Angeles area the northern track threatened to take the matter to court. The meeting J adjourned with the matter of Bay Meadows i fall dates still unsettled. Dr. Charles H. Strub, speaking for Santa J ! Anita, stated his track is confident of racing this winter, but that in the event the Armv does not vacate in time to prepare for a meeting he will request Hollywood Park s permission to conduct a meeting at j that track. Bmg Crosbys Del Mar track also spoke for dates, stating it had permission of the Hollywood Park board of directors to race there immediately following the close of the Hollywood Park meeting. The board indicated a willingness to gram the Del Mar dates in the near future. . JACK MACKENZIE — General manager of Hollywood Park, which track was granted dates for 55 days of racing at its Inglewood plant.
