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Fairmount Park Racing Strip Better How Than Ever Before FAIRMOUNT PARK, Collinsville, 111., May 26. Preparing Fairmount Park for its 32-day spring meeting is progressing in an increased tempo, with the main stress being placed on the stable registrations in the secretarys office, and the condition of the racing strip. Track superintendent John LeBlanc has been constantly harrowing and conditioning the track for Fridays opening, and he-believes that even now the strip is better than it has ever been before. The silt and sand that settled on the track last year from the spring floods and high water, has been gradually worked from the natural loam soil. Arthur Eilerman is in charge of the secretarys office in the absence of racing secretary L. Henderson Van Zandt, who will return from his similar post at the Hipo-dromo de las Americas in Mexico City Tuesday. Steward Frederick Crafton and Ralph Stubbs are handling the registrations of horses and assisting in the general office preparations.
