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SECOND SECTIONWILL LAY 0111Centlivre Park is to Be Plat-ted Into Many City Lots.MEANS PASSING OPHISTORIC TRACKCatalISpeedway Was at One Time Graced by Harness Kings of Country.BEKATbreTil C'rnn: mon solve mem Ni ilepu the . munP; Spai A 1ftpaUlinoThe thunder of hen tin hoofs upon the Mu historic Centlivre park tr/.lr.in-» truck senat will soon be lost in the music of huililius Iona hammers.' The training barn, where um-c ment were fathered the finest stable of harness lM :,1 horses in the middle west, is to l»e ram! to make room for quiet homes ami stretching.green lawns.The drawing of it blue print plat the Centlivre park area is now under wav. The effort of preparing the addition for grounds for a building addition is in the hands of the Wildwood builders. Their landscape artists have been going over the grounds for several days.It is expected that tentative plans for tlic newrst north side luhiitimi w ill be presented to Louis and Charles Centlivre, owners of the tract, on duly 15. There are forty-two acres in the strip ot the park yet remaining, north of the brookView addition.Arthur Shurtliff, landscape authority, lt;pro has been called into cmwimulion .1, • -Jhav matter of laying off the main part or tho mai gark grounds. Pruuels H. Bulut, '' ‘id-wood engineer, is carrying out much ofthe plaiting work.The Centlivre park grounds give promise of making one of the most picturesque building additions in Fort Wayne, the ground is rolling and hi the valley winds Spy Run creek. A part ot the and is canopied by large forest trees. The natural beauty of the place wilt make its preparation for a building addition a comparatively easy matter, landscapeartists say. , .Actual work of preparing the grounds no for a new 'residence addition will not I start until early next spring, announce . i Centlivre brothers, who lmve retained all fl lights for disposing of the properties, ! n 0jib.driveway iu the Centlivre addition* and located in the valley beyond Spy Run creek,- is expected to be called Track averts!. ' -It will pass over a part of what is now the training course. It will be the last mark of the once famous Centlivretrack. IBLast to Go.Passing1 of the historic race course means the end of Fort Wayne’s efforts to sustain harness racing. The half mile path about to be blotted out is the last of several tracks which havesituconheFthegarinCatPU1]rcatraotiorcome and gone.The driveway around the lagoon in Swinney park marks the course of one of the early speed courses in the city. Several fairs were held in which excellent race.meetings were a feature.The Driving park addition is over the well known mile track which brought Fort Wayne for several seasons into theGrand circuit.One of the first tracks in the city was. located where the Lake Shore round house now stands. That course was well known to horsemen of half a century ago. Another track was on the St. Joe road, across from the brew-of-V0*0c1ery.■ Tbs half mile Centlivre track was built twenty-seven years ago. It was constructed at the cost of several thousand dollars. It was one of the best made two lap tracks in the middle west. It was the course over which all the Centlivre stable of thoroughbreds were trained for several seasons. There have been miles paced over the doomed ovalas fast as 2.05.Some-of the’best known of the light harness racers, which have hurried over the track in days gone by are: William' King. 2.0714; Major Wilson,-2.1 1; Mary Centlivre, 2.12; Mydia, 2.12; Major Centlivre, 2.10: Harry Strathmore, 2.13; Ebony King, four year old record, 2.10%; Harry O, 2.06%: Verna* ijett, 2.12; Red King, 2.07; Babe, one of the richest stake winners through the grand circuit for two seasons and who attained a record of 1.59; Frank Bogash, 2.03%, and Atlantic King, 2.09%.Most of the horses, all of which graced the grand circuit tracks at one“ “ m la
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Fort Wayne Sentinel
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Fri, Jul 06, 1917
Page 15
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Allen C.
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