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Show UTOl WILL H 26 DAM 11 General Manager Hachmeister Decides That the Meeting Shall Not Be Extended. Latonia will run twenty-four straight days, beginning on Decoration day, May 30, and close on June 26. This plan was agreed upon by General Manager Hachmeister after carefully considering consider-ing all angles of the matter. The Rno-ing Rno-ing commission granted Latonia the privilege of running twenty-four days, and gave it thirty-one days in which to do so, in order that July 4 a big day might be taken in. If Latonia had followed its first inclination to string the meeting out to July 4, it would have necessitated laying up for seven days. Several plans, to bring this about wore suggested. One being that there be no racing on Monday or Friday, and another was to lay off on tho days on which there wbb a conflict with tho baseball team. Hachmeister spoke to manv of the borsemon at Lexingotn about the matter and to others and then decided that it would be best for all concernod to run the twenty-four days and then close down. The horsemen did not relish the idoa of having two or three off days in which to loaf about, and It is doubtful if many stables would have stayed hore to run off tho big stake on July 4. In ordor to satisfy evoryono Hachmeister decided to run through the allotted time and close. |