Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-07

tween the new course and the Celia Adler
track at the Fair Grounds, Western
Jockey Club mainstay.
The season of 1904, however, was such a
prosperous one on the Chicago tracks ana
the Harlem. Hawthorne and Worth Jockey
Clubs earned such solid dividends that there
would probably not have been any turf "as
to chronicle. had not Corrigan purchased
a controlling interest in the New City Park
track al New Orleans.
This brought C. S. Bush into the field
for the Crescent City Jockey Club and
the application of the Corrigan-Brown track
for dates was refused by the Western Jock
ey Club. In other words {. 8 BUSH refused
70 give up any of the winter dates TO the
new club and the Western Jockey Clup
backed him up. Then Edward Corrigan
declared his intention to form another con-
trolling turf body in the west unless the
new track at New Orleans was given dates
But he got little satisfaction from the
Western Jockey Club.
New Turf Association Formed.
With good Judgment, in view of coming
events that were thus casting their shadows
before, II. d. Brown, the promoter Of the
new course at New Orleans, secured as
directors and stockholders some we'll
known New Orleans business men. And
the construction of the City Park race
course from the midst of a maze of bayou
and swamp dignifed by the title of park
was one of the cleverest bits OF track CON
etruCtion OF the decade. NOT even eNceptlHS
the record in track building held by h1n-
loch Park race course, st. Louis, which was
constructed. buildings and all. in less thah
thirty days. But that track was a county
fair ground compared to the handsome CITY
Park course a New Orleans.
So the early days of the past year saw
the opening of the new course at Orleans I'M
der the banner of Edward Corrigans newly
born American Turf Association when
started out with a strength and prestige
that almost decimated the membership OF
the Western Jockey Club. In the new turf
body We're the Kansas City Jockey CIup'
the Union Jockey Club of st. Louis, the
New Orleans Jockey Club the Louisville
Jockey Club. the Tennessee Breeders asso-
citation of Nashville, the Highland Park
Club of Detroit Fort Erie Jockey Club, hot
Springs Jockey Club, Kentucky Association
of Lexington and Hawthorne track at Chi
cago.
Badly shattered but still in the ring the
Western Jockey Club could only snow as
its front the Harlem Jockey Club, Memphis
Jockey Club Crescent City Jockey Club OF
New Orleans New Oaklawn Jockey Club OF
Hot Springs. st. Louis Fair Association,
J.atonia Jockey Club and washington fafk
Club of Chicago. then virtually on the point
OF disbandment, while the fate of the La
tonia Jockey Club was trembling in the
balance. the result of law SUIT between
Stockholders Perkins and Applegate for su-
premacy and the control of the CLUB
Meanwhile John Coudon's palatial Oak
lawn track at OF Springs, Ark, was COM
peted, a 100000 property that VIII COM
pare favorably with any course in the west
or south. and an inaugural meeting held
there after the meeting Of the Hot Springs
Jockey Club. The latter course, hastily
built on q corn field formerly owned by
William Michigan of the Arkansas state
legislature was primitive AFFAIR compared
20 the pretentious Oaklawn course. and is
Handicapped by its position, seven miles
out of town, while the Condor track is
within the town limits.