The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-15
SUCCESS OF WINTER RACING WILL
CAUSE STRONG COMPETITION.
OPTION HAS BEEN
OBTAINED ON LAND.
SITE SELECTED NEAR ATHLETIC
PARK, ON TULANE AVENUE.

Though Stories Have Been Current
Each Year to the Effect That
There Would Be Invaders in New
Orleans, None Have Ever Made
GOOd-Scems to BE Strong PrOba-
biIity That Present Plans Will Go
Through and Make Strong OppO-
sftiOn to the Crescent City Jockey
Club-PrOmOters Claim They Will
be Able to Get Dates.
There is more than a probability
that the Crescent City Jockey Club of
New Orleans will have decided opposi-
ton in the winter season of 1904-5.
A new organization promises to enter
the field, and at this time reports
would tend to show that there is a
seriousness about the proposed new
track.
For several years-in fact, ever since
Charles S. Bush and his associates
in the Crescent City Jockey Club have
made a success of winter racing at
New Orleans-there have been period
ical stories of opposition, but one after
another they have failed to material
ize.
This last proposed track, however, is
a much more serious menace to the
Crescent City Jockey Club than any
that has gone before, and the person
mel of the men local to New Orleans
who have interested themselves in the
new venture would make it appear that
there is to be opposition of the liveli-
est sort in this Southern city.
New Club in Process.
A man who is intimately conversant
with conditions has said that a new
club is in process of formation and
that already an option has been OBJ
tanned on a tract of land which it is
proposed shall be converted into a
modern race course before next au-
tumn. This property is in the neigh
borhood of Athletic Park, on Tulane
avenue, and is even more easy of ac-
cess than the present course of the
Crescent City Jockey Club, situated as
ii is in the French quarter of the city
and below Esplanade avenue. He says
the proposed club has a plot of ground
of ample dimensions, and that it has
already been surveyed and partially
ldlu OUT DIS d race COURSE OIL I1OQGTH Qe-
sign.
The new racing plant is being or
ganized by Southern capitalists who
are already a power in Louisiana.
About half a million dollars, it is eSti-
mated, is interested directly in the
new plant, and the plans call for a
course that will be modern in it's APP
pointments. Much secrecy necessarily
has been observed in the early nego-
iafi of fIA al, - t.
chartered under the name of the
Summer Amusement Company" Be
ing adjacent to Athletic Park, a sum-
mer garden, this title has not alarmed
the Crescent City Jockey Club, and
! a gentleman who was offered stock in
the new club told of the intents and
prospects of the new racing plant.
Rival Course Has a Chance.
For several years there have been
attempts to establish a rival race
course in New Orleans, but thus far
every effort has been of no avail
Charles S. Bush and his associates
obtained a long lease on Oakland Park,
course that needed little but buildings
to lie Ia fair-class racecourse, and
with the getting of this lease there
was a lull in the efforts to offer an
opposition Now there is a different
complexion to the outlook, and it would
appear that the Crescent City Jockey
Club was to have a strong opposition
during it's next season.
The Crescent City Jockey Club has
always given it's meetings over the
course of the New Louisiana Jockey
Club, from which the track is leased.
That lease, it is said, never was re-
corded While a long lease was given
to the Crescent City Jockey Club it was
agreed that there should be no record
of the lease for the reason that the
lessee did not care to have the terms
known. The projectors of the new
track allege they have acquired
considerable amount of the stock of
the New Louisiana Jockey Club. to
make the establishment of their new
racing plant more certain, and they
express a confidence of being not only
able to race next winter. but also to