Air Service From Lake Front to Lincoln Fields: All Flights on Charter Basis; Special C. and E. I. Race Trains, Daily Racing Form, 1954-05-10

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Air Service From Lake Front to Lincoln Fields FieldsAll All Flights on Charter Basis Special C E I Race Trains TrainsRacing Racing fans will be able to reach the refurbished Lincoln Fields racecourse by air rail bus and automobile General man ¬ ager Peter J ODonnell announced Satur ¬ day that the homecoming to the Crete plant May 20 will be marked by the great ¬ est ease of transportation in the tracks history The plant has been completely remodeled with several new buildings added addedThe The Lake Air Taxi service will operate between Meigs Field and Mall Field in Crete or Governors Airport six miles west of the track on route 54 with planes carry ¬ ing three or four passengers It is a 15minute hop with five to ten minutes taxi service available at the track end of the flight flightAll All flights will be run on a charter basis with reservations to be made in advance advanceIn In addition the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad will run a work train and three passenger trains daily to the track the work train to leave the Dearborn Street Station on Polk Street at 1045 Other trains will leave at noon 1230 and 1 p m All are diesel powered and will make the run in 45 minutes Many of the coaches will be air conditioned conditionedBus Bus service will be available from points pointsContinued Continued on Page FortyFire i Air Service From Lake Front to Lincoln Fields FieldsAll All Flights on Charter Basis Special C E I Race Trains TrainsContinued Continued from Page FVe FVeon on the north west south and far south sides sidesStarting Starting from Howard Street at 1145 a m the north side bus will make stops at the Edgewater Beach Hotel and at Sun nyside and Sheridan Road RoadBuses Buses will leave from 79th Street and Stony Island at 1245 and 1 p m Others will depart from 63rd and Halsted at 1215 and 1 p m mWest West side service will be furnished from Crawford Avenue and Washington Street at 1115 and 1230 with stops at Madison Cicero and 22nd Street and Midway Air ¬ port portThere There will be Illinois Central suburban trains departing from Randolph Street at 1135 a m 1215 and 1255 p m to be met by buses at 211th Street and the Lin ¬ coln Highway for an additional 15minute ride to the track trackAbout About an hours drive from the loop the Crete course can be reached by a route over the outer drive to Jackson Park i thence to Stony Island and Doty Avenue to Calumet Highway thence to Torrence Avenue south on Torrence to Sauk Trail and back on to the Will County Section of the Calumet Expressway which leads di ¬ rectly to the track It is about a onehour drivei driveiPost Post time will be at 2 p m daily except for 130 on May 31 when the Memorial Day program will feature the Peabody Memorial MemorialHorses Horses have been arriving daily at Crete for the past two weeks with a large influx expected when the Churchill Downs meet ¬ ing ends next Saturday


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