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• DOG RUING TRACK WILLRi BE OPENED AT FAIRFIELDisnrledallanF.in-1i)n-1 ais | /ill5b- ! he 1 ar iI’U-atetheriv-a a )ay-the atirstiltyigo-forind-iwoow-ngeont-hat..nee t henotalsoPlans for construction of a do£ racing track on a newly-] acquired site within the village of Fairfield in Path Iwp., ; representing an investment of approximately $100,000, were] disclosed Friday by Attorney Frank L. Johnson, this city.Attorney Johnson represents a company formed in Dayton which will be known as the Fairfield Amusement Park, Ltd., not a corporation, composed of sportsmen of Dayton, Springfield, Osborn and other nearby cities interested in dogracing, who will finance the project.The plant will le built on thirty-, Work on the plant is expected lostart within the next ten days andone acres of land, located north' east of Fairfield and within the corporate limits of the village, purchased Thursday from the Miami Conservancy District., Attorney Johnson said.Announcement was also made that the Fairfield village council has passed two ordinances authorizing Mayor Routzong to license the track and legalize the racing.The track will be circular and one-fourth of a mile in length.It will be a turf track, an innovation which has never been -tried out in this country. The dogs will race on grass instead of a dirt track.RESERVES TO OPEN WITH TWO PRACTICE GAMES THIS SEASONTwo Sunday practice games at which no admission will be charged are being arranged by the Xenia Reserve Baseball Flub in preparation for the formal open-, ing of the local diamond season scheduled for Sunday, April 21.Reserves will play an exhibition game with the Grismer Fuels of Dayton Sunday afternoon, April 7 at 2:30 o’clock at Washington Park. Xenia fans may attend this game free of charge as well asonnfhor nmr-tif-e tilt which Man-a grandstand patterned after the, stand at the Greene County Fairgrounds, seating approximately 3,-; 500 people, will be erected.Formal opening of the dog track is tentatively scheduled for between June 1 and June 15 thissummer. It is planned to hold two meets every year, one in thespring and another in the fall.Bach will last twenty or thirty days.There will be races every night while the meets last with eight races comprising the card.It is pointed out that the proposed Fairfield track will be operated on a somewhat different scale from other tracks in exisr-i ence in Ohio, in that dog owners may enter their whippets by invitation only, thus assuring nothing but first class racing.I No bookmaking will be permitted but one of the two ordinances passed by the village council authorizes a system of rewards i whereby racing fans who desire to forecast the outcome of the various races will receive cash prizes for successful predictions, it is explained.This system, according to Attorney Johnson, has been declared legal by the supreme courts of four states where the plan has been placed in operation and is not construed as a form of gambling on the result of the races, he said.
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Xenia Evening Gazette
Xenia, Ohio, US
Fri, Apr 05, 1929
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