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Mimeographed Programs Given Free at Belmont Employes of Printing Company Fail to Cross Picket Lines BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., May 30. — Because employes of the concern which prints the programs were ordered not to cross the picket lines now patrolling all entrances to Belmont Park, the thousands of racegoers who visited here today were given a "gift" of the entries. This was a mimeographed sheet containing the "tote" numbers, names of the horses, jockeys, weights, post positions and equipment changes. Approximately 80,000 copies of the makeshift program were run off last night after the Westchester Racing Association learned of the "sympathy" walkout. The program vendors were stationed in their usual positions and visitors were greeted with a distinctly unfamiliar cry: "Free programs!- Some were amazed by this unexpected but necessary burst of generosity and others "kidded" the "sales-less" salesmen, but the great majority accepted the mimeographed sheets with no comment. Despite the fans unfamiliarity with this comparatively novel method of acquainting them with the "tote" numbers of the days starters, the mutuel machines clicked busily from the time the windows opened until the bell signaled that the field was at the post for the last race.
