, 1923-04-01
CHICAGO TO Be
REPRESENTED AT
KENTUCKY DERBY
BY FRENCH LANE.

Chicago will be represented at the
forty-ninth running of the Kentucky
Derby at Churchill Downs in Louisville
on May 10 by close to 10000 persons,
according to carly estimates made by
railroad officials and Others Who plan
TO operate special trains between this
city and the scene of the great turf
classic.
No less than twenty specials will
operate on the various railroads be-
tween Chicago and Louisville. reser-
vations now indicate, while hundreds
of others will make their way to the
Derby city on regular trains and in
automobiles. 1t Will be the largest
crowd Chicago has sent to the running
of the rich Ct
This huge crowd will desert Chicago
for the kentucky ace despite the pros
poets of at least two and possibly three
or four meetings on C track this
season. Hawthorne plans forty or
more days at spring and fall meet.
ings and latest indications point to
some activities at Riverdale, where
the Washington Park Breeders as
ISOLATION has announced 1t will bulld
an elaborate plant
oAN AA1J1A IA obbs
Engineer William ]. Murray and
Track Builder Billy Meyer with sur
veyors have put in several days at
the proposed track. it is announced.
They are getting preliminary details
out of the way in order to be ready
to go ahead in full swing when It IS
known what disposition is made of
the racing bill in the general assem-
bly,.
The situation at Hawthorne. where
spring n fall meetings have been
announced. the first one opening on
May &c. is aid to be clearing up
somewhat after weeks of rumors of
changes in ownership, cancellation of
leases, etc. > According to a state
ment made in California by Thomas
Carey. owner of the west side track.
the Illinois Jockey club will continue
in control. But just who the Jockey
club is to include this eason has not
been announced. as the Joseph e.
Murphy faction is aid to be out as
far as any ownership is concerned.
Murphy offered Post.
There have been reports that Martin
q. Williamson will De the racing off,
cial in charge, but no announcement
TO his effect has been made. Judge
Murphy has lately been offered his
post of last ear. that Of presiding
steward, 1t is said, despite the sever
ing of his connections in the Haw-
thorne ownership.
At any rate. Thomas Bourke, sec
rotary of the Illinois Jockey club, has
spent several weeks making a cam
paign of winter tracks and is at
Tijuana now. More than 200 thor
oughbreds will be shipped direct to
Hawthorne for further conditioning
and the spring meeting. he has an
nounced.
Profits at Oriental park in Cuba this
season will be lean when compared
TO the big dividends paid in other
years. according to stories carried back
from the winter track. A bad lot Of
horses was partly responsible. it IL
said. and the switch from pari mutueI
to ~bookmaking specializing was made
necessary because the natives did not
take kindly to the machine system.
Tourists did not wager nearly as leav.
lily as in former years, It is reported,
and the lack of big fields often took
away much of the speculative Interest.
There has been no kick on the man
ner in which the sport was conducted,
and plans are already under way to at
tract a greater number of high class
thoroughbreds at the next winter
session.
YACHTING TAUGHT BY SLIDES.