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BETWEEN RACES By Oscar Otis Longqcres Preparing for Opening Food Moves Along on Chains Club Trains to Handle Fires Woodhouse Renews Acquaintances AcquaintancesHOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD PARK Inglewood Calif May 25 Horses and People Joseph Gott stein is getting Longacres ready for its sum ¬ mer meeting between showers The al ¬ most steady rains have slowed down repair and andbeautification beautification work The new addition to the clubhouse here is pro ¬ nounced by experts as perhaps the finest and swankiest bit of archi ¬ tecture in the nation It is much more lavish iHanthe exclusive Turf Club upstairs and in addition has a couple of thousand unreserved seats Fans once they discovered the unreserved signs wasted little time in making use of them Melvin Knight pony boy during the morning hours and performance observer in the afternoon has a new mount he will match with any thoroughbred up to an eighth Name is Chili Bug is a registered quarter horse won 15 of 18 races among his own kind and can easily near 10 seconds any time called upon Knight Americas leading rider in 1919 is one of the most versatile horsemen on the grounds His presence as a loose horse catcher and general traffic man of a morning has aided in cutting down the ac ¬ cident rate here I 4 I Harry Curland caterer to most California I tracks has introduced a chain system for I his track restaurants and cafes which op ¬ erates on four different levels The kitch ¬ ens for the chain and which can feed more people than the Waldorf Astoria in New I York according to the estimate of the head chef here are connected by a huge elevator The food moves from a processing kitchen on the ground floor to other kitchens on the i various levels which in turn serve the res ¬ taurants Curland and the Hollywood Park management is quite proud of the scope of their catering operation and rightly so All I the restaurants on the ground incidentally offer different menus menusA A A A AWe We have noticed from time to time the efforts made by the various racing assqcia j tions to make the back stretch a real home for the grooms and others connected there and while some tracks move toward their goal in one method and others in another the associations all have a com ¬ mon objective to make the life of the groom more pleasant Delaware Park is perhaps the most advanced in what might be termed i backstretch relations but Hollywood i Park while it hasnt all the gadgets and agreeable services of Delaware neverthe ¬ less is steadily encouraging its boys club for exercise boys and stable hands under 18 years of age Jack F Mackenzie and his able aids Jim Stewart assistant manager Hal Bacon director of recreation and Jack Smith paddock judge have inaugurated a busy schedule for the coming weeks includ j ing some of the latest motion pictures run off in the new and large projection room adjacent to the clubhouse The facilities of the new jockey quarters here including a j pool table and the like also are being made available to the teen agers agersA A A A ABut But perhaps the most striking innovation here this season is a group within the boys club known as the Horse Saving Club These boys will be sent through an intensive course in fire prevention and if fire does break out first how to fight the fire and secondly how to save all horses from harm jJeff Douglas stable superintendent will give the instruction and will be aided by both the tracks own private and the city j of Inglewood fire department The course coursewill will be on a par with the fire fighting train 1 ing given in the armed services plus the j added instruction as to how to save the I horses The idea is that should a fire break out anywhere in the stable area there will be at least one trained expert at hand to direct the proceedings and maybe save valuable horses and human lives until the arrival of the regular fire department As is well known stable fires flare from sparks to conflagration in a matter of moments and prompt action at once is often more valuable than a whole fire department a few minutes later laterA A A Transcontinental air travel by riders is more in vogue this year than ever before While Johnny Longden made one of his increasingly infrequent trips east Hedley HedleyWoodhouse Woodhouse took the weekend off to ride a pair out this way for the WL Ranch Vrodhouse is a native of the Pacific North v est andj while herie spent much time re ¬ newing acquaintances with hishost of Can adian friends Congratulated upon riding Faultless in the 75000 Gallant Fox at Ja ¬ maica whose victory ccuplcd with that of Citation in the Preakness gave Calumet the most fabulous day in American urf his ¬ tory of any one stable he said he had little more to do than steer and passed on all credit to the horse and his training
