The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-19
Woonsocket to Join With
Other Half Mile Rings.

Walter J.. Ripley has signed a lease
for the Woonsocket half mile race
track and will make special induce
ments to Worcester trainers at the fair
grounds to train their strings at
Woonsoclet in case the fair grounds
is cut into lots by the syndicate
which has recently purchased it. Mr.
Ripley has for his associate in the
lease eof the track Frank Stevens of
55HiIls Grove r. /.
They will start a circuit to be COM
posed of tracks of Woonsocket, Paw
tucket and Hills Grove, R. l., and
Danielson, Conn. 1t will make a
compact circuit and furnish race meets
which Will have special interest to
Worcester horsemen. Mr. Ripley will
remodel the stables at the Woonsocket
track, in anticipation of the cutting up
Of the fair grounds, and make improve
ments to conform to the wishes of local
trainers, in order to get them to train
their strings at Woonsocket.
There, is hardly any doubt the train
ers would go there with little induce
Tnent. There is a good half-mile track
a at. Woonsocket, and with good accom-
modations' in the training stables, the
loss of the fair grounds will open up a
new field for Worcester trainers.
A feature of racing which will greatly
assist in making the two-state circuit
profitable is that the authorities of
those states do not chase after the
management because few dollars find
their way into the pool box.
The committee appointed by Presi
dent John B. Watson of the Driving
Park Company has not held a meeting
to consider the question of site.
Whether the company ever votes to
build track or not is not under con-
sideration by the committee. 1t in
tends to consider the site question as
thoroughly as it can and report in full
to the company.
Although there are horsemen in Wor-
cester who do not think the project of
building a new track by the company
will ever reach fruition. there are 9TH
ers who see it easily within the possible
Titles of a few years hence.
There are phases of the project which
have been considered by members of
THE company and which have not
struck the fancy of others who may
discredit the project. One of the COM
mittee in talking with The Spy man,
y
phase of the question which may open
great possibilities for a track Said he:
1t isn't absolutely necessary for the
track to be built in Worcester if the
company decides to attempt the pro-
ject. Land in Worcester would be too
dear, but the track might be built in
one of the adjacent towns where land
could be secured at a more reasonab BILE
price. That is the plan which is followed
in other cities. The track could be
built in Grafton, for instance, or any
other town which is within easy ac-
cess Of Worcester and to which there
are good railroad and street railway
facilities. 1t would be no great incon-
venience to horsemen to have a track
few miles out"
A prominent horseman who is great
ly interested in the project and who
would be one Of the heaviest stock
holders in the track if built said the
Mason land in Shrewsbury hits him as
being q grand place for a track. The
location. of the land is at the foot of
Shrewsbury hill to the right of the
watering trough where the roads fork
to Shrewsbury and Westboro. The land
is along level stretch extending almost
TO Jordan pond and the amount of
money required to fit them up would
notbe as great as in many other places.
When Shrewsbury street is widened the
aQconnmodati for driving to the site
$3.50 ai u, dnu lhe street cars pass
. .lies'9 aII 70 IHe hllnd OF the nofseman
tits an ideal place
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