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Slight Drop in Attendance For many years, Memorial Day has been the biggest day in racing, in point of attendance, at American tracks. Huge crowds turned out yesterday, but there was a slight falling off at every race course in comparison with last year. The aggregate attendance at 13 tracks was 361,293, whereas in 1946 the holiday throngs totaled 367,832 at 12 tracks. Following are the figures for the two years: Track 1946 1947 Atlantic City 22,381 Belmont Park 60,631 59,745 Beulah Park 7,500 8,500 Charles Town 10,000 9,000 Delaware Park 33,739 26,000 Detroit 29,000 27,000 Fairmount Park ... 21,960 20,000 Hollywood Park 61,537 63,347 tHawthorne 39,000 33,668 Omaha 16,927 15,000 Randall Park 17,000 13,000 River Downs 22,000 21,000 Suffolk Downs 48,538 42,652 Total 367,832 361,293 Estimated ILincoln Fields meeting held at Hawthorne.
