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Van Zandt Reports Heavy Stall Application List for Ellis CAHOKIA DOWNS. East St. Louis, HI., May 14. — Racing secretary L. Henderson Van Zandt returned this morning after visiting over the week end with Lester Yeagei. president and general manager of James C. Ellis Park where Van Zandt also serves as racing secretary. There are already between 600 and 700 applications for stalls and others are arriving in each mail according to the report brought here by Van Zandt. The Ellis Park meeting, the thirty-fourth under the present management, begins July 31 and runs through Labor Day. Last year the organization had its greatest season with an increase of 14 per cent over the previous year in wagering. Yeager informed Van Zandt that *here is more interest in the coming meeting than ever and that expectations are that the daily average will exceed the record one of 1956.
