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Hollywood and Del Mar Racing Dates Reshuffled Former Meet Runs to July 23, And Latters Opening Put Back LOS ANGELES, Calif., May 18. — The racing dates assigned to Hollywood Park and Del Mar were reshuffled at a meeting of the California Horse Racing Board held at the boards offices in the Mirror Building in downtown Los Angeles. Several other matters, including the proposed quarter horse race track at Palm Springs came up for discussion. Commissioner John H. Sattler presided at the meeting, due to the absence of chairman Dwight Murphy, detained by business in San Francisco. Commissioner Fred Pabst was on hand from his home at Atherton, and William OConnor, of the attorney-generals office was in attendance. Because of chairman Murphys absence the matter which was to have been the most important business of the session was put over to the next regular meeting of this board. This was the 4-3-2.7 formula which Murphy had previously announced would be proposed for adoption as a base on which to calculate the minimum purse distribution at all tracks in the state. It was an agreement between the HBPA and Hollywood Park on purses one-half of one per cent under that formula which got Hollywood Park under way last Saturday. The board sanctioned the arrangement agreed to by Hollywood Park and Del Mar under which Del Mar will open three days later than had previously been scheduled, and will extend its meeting three days after the traditional Labor Day closing. Hollywood will race on Monday, July 20, and carry on for three more days, closing July 23. to make up for the four days it lost due to the horsemens boycott. Del Mar will open July 25 and close September 10, instead of September 7. This arrangement gives Del Mar an evtra day, making the seaside season run for 41 days instead of 40. Charles "Chuck" Coughlin stated for the record that Golden Gate would be adversely affected by the change, on the ground that it would delay some Del Mar people and horses from arriving for the Bay area tracks opening. William Hornblower also called to the boards attention the fact that by being compelled to race six days a week, the northern tracks take the worst of the dates. "Racing six days weekly forces us to pay half -and double time for wages on the sixth day and also euckres us out of a Saturday every meeting," he said, in plugging for equality of treatment for all tracks by the racing board in the matter of dates. Attorney Kenneth Lynch, representing a reorganized group seeking a permit to build and operate a half-mile quarter horse track at Palm Springs, asked the board to set a date "before the end of May" for a public hearing at Palm Springs on the matter of public interest. It seems a few protests from citizens of the resort city have been filed with the board against the building of a racetrack there, and Lynch desired that a hearing be held near the site for the airing of such protests. The organization plans to incoroprate under the name of Desert Turf Club. Lynch stated that ample backing has been obtained, with 250 shares at ,000 each pledged by a large number of influ- ential citizens to construct the track, on l land eight miles from Palm Springs. The I land, valued at 00,000 has already been obtained. Palm Springs is in Riverside county. The board deferred action until its i next meeting on the matter of arranging for a public hearing. Several cases having to do with dis-cipling licensees came before the board and, , after hearing the evidence, were taken under advisement. These included the revocation of Willard V. Owens license as an owner, trainer Larry Roses application for reinstatement, groom Admiral Andersons suspension for touting, and exercise rider James W. Whites application for reln-i statement.
