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Show FAMOUS RACE TRACK IS SOLD Thlrty.Elght Acraa of Old Hawthorne Plant Transferred to Syndicate of Lumbermen. Thirty-eight acres of tho famous old Hawthorne race track In Stlckney have been sold for $100,000 to a syndicate syndi-cate of southern lumbermen, It bo-camo bo-camo known here today. The Ilnwthnrno raco track, known to all the old-time followers of the turf, was established In Chicago In tho early nlnetlrs by Kd Corrlgan, after a bitter turf war In which Jim Brown, sportsmon and several pollco-men pollco-men were killed. Homo of the fastest horses of tho American turf have raced on tho old Hawthorne track, which Is now In tho heart of a populous residential sec-tlon. |