The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-04-16
HANDSOME CLUB
FOR ALL MEMBERS
Finn Receives Many AppIiea.
tons, but Accommodations
for Only Few.
BUTTE TRACK DIRECTORS
ARE HAVING TROUBLE
Eftinger of Santa Anita Will Dis
tribute Pretty Souvenir
Club Book.

Since the arrival of w w. Finn from
Los Angeles, he has received so many
applications for membership To the Utah
Jockey club that he has become CON
WINGED that this Is one OF the best cities
Tor its size that he was ever In, for horse
racing The membership to the club will
be limited, not because an unlimited mum
Der OF people are not wanted. but he
cause tho club will be small affair and
Will only accommodate about $50 mem
hers. Finn announced that he would be-
next week. He visited the fair grounds
thursday afternoon 10 secure the exact
location of the clubhouse and approNi
mate measurements for same.
TWO hundred stalls arc being erected.
which will oc completed by the end OF
next week These in connection with
those already at the track, win afford ac.
commodatIon for about 500 head OF
horses, which number is expected TO be
in active racing here during the pres
ent summer, The first shipment OF run
Thursday. when eight express cars will
leave for this city. Horses Will then be
shipped every day. Both Santa Anita
and Emeryvillc will close next Saturday,
April II.
Judge p. P Pomeroy and two associ-
ate Judges will leave Santa Anita next
Richard Dwyer. one of the best start
In the world will he the official start
sr I for the Utah Jockey club He will he
opening Of the meeting.
Trouble in Butte.
California horsemen are expressing
some doubt az regards the proposed meet
Ing of the Butte track, which meeting Is
held under the jurisdiction or the Pacific
Coast Jockey club. There seems 10 be
some trouble in Butte among the owners
of the track. According to reports sew
eral o: the directors do not favor Harry
Stovcr as manager for another year Sto-
yer picked UP the game two ycars ago
and i'm his first year cleared $4,000 for
the Butte track owners, and in the sec
ond year or 1905 cleared Sal. 600 Prior
to this. it Is reported that the owners
had lost money, Stover is said TO be
competent horseman and is We'll liked
by all those interested In the sport. and
it is claimed on the coast that if he is
ousted thGt the Butte meeting will not
amount TO much the coming year. Stover
has always held out for big purses and
good racing and lie has given the Butte
people better sport the past two years
than they have been accustomed 10. 1T
is said, and the horscmen will never
stand to have the sport cheapened. Stover
owns one-thlrd interest in the track and
can be easily ousted by the other direc
tors, should they so desire. but tho horse
mere gossip and that Slower will remain.
IL also seems that the Butte people have
tired of Pacific rule and should the Butte
track alienatc the Butte directors will
probably ask for the protection OF the
Utah Jockey club which new organiza-
ton has already sprung into prominence
in the west owing To the enormous meet
ing scheduled for the first half OF the
summer.
Handsome Souvenir.
j. G. Effngcr OF Los Angeles arrived
Thursday, for the purpose OF taking UP
the work on the official souvenir book,
descriptive Of the Utah Jockey club. Eff
finger has gotten out the souvenir book
for the Santa Anita track for the past
two Years and the book WAS such a great
success that no other offers have been
considered. This book viii be gotten ont
in artistic style. giving tho history OF the
Utah Jockey club in pictorial display all
stake and handicap races. pictures OF the
race track officials and prominent people
connected herewith. together with horses
and Jockeys and general race track in
formation. and will he book much
sought after by all horsemcn TO place In
their home libraries Efiingcr gives away
the souvenir books To people who pat
lonize the races and TO the horsemen In
general