Show LAGOON RACE TO Sf START ART ARTON ON MAY II 11 INSTEAD Of MAY 5 I I The Tho spring race meeting at the Lagoon will begin on May l 11 Instead of or orIa May Ia 5 as previously prevIous Announced and will con continue tin ue for sixty days dars according to a statement made last night b by H II I. I Wilson vice Ice president and general manager of or the racing association Wilson stopped off here for a few dason days das dayson on his wa way from Los Angeles to the theno no northwest t. t Reports to tIm the effect that Wilson has discharged all of ot the officials In Including Including Including In- In Morris unit and Nelson Maynard Monard and will have ha a anew new v crew crow next year ear have ve been made without any authority from Wilson The truth of ot the matter Is that he has not selected his officials for tor the spring meeting and will not do so for some sometime time Is sure to bo be one of ot the officials The report to the effect that Wilson Is 18 about to Install a racing plant at Tiajuana Mexico l proves to be a Joke JoIce paSSed parsed of off on somo some unsuspecting unsuspecting- v ct riter Wilson says n s 's that lie he has never nover thought of trying to operate a Il track at Tiajuana and has never done dono anything anything any any- thing which would give rIse to such a report Wilson while here will look over the racing plant at nt the Lagoon and dedde de decIde decide de- de cide definitely on the tho Improvements which will be made there next year The center centor field hell la is going to be bo graded eo so that the cut at the tho quarter polo will be done away with There will also bo be a a. new clubhouse While nothing ha has been boen done as os yet b by the men back of tho the Coeur dAlene track In regard to running there In opposition to the Lagoon next spring there Is a chance that the dates for tor forthe the tho two tracks will conflict as was announced exclusively In The Herald- Herald Republican several weeks ago If such I a fight tIght takes place It will Injure the Coeur dAlene meeting more than it It will hurt the tho Lagoon The last meeting meet ing at nt Coeur dAlone dAlon left leU a bad taste In tho the mouths of oC the Spokane sportsmen sports sports- sportsmen men mon because of the attempt to pull Enfield En En- field and because of ot two or three other boat races which were pulled off during the closing days of tho the meet meet- in Ing cr Should there be a a turf war tho thc Lagoon meeting next spring will be bo a as os asgood good or a trifle better than was theone the theone theone one last summer In tho the event of ot a n satisfactory adjustment of oC the dates and with no opposition the tho local meetIng meeting meeting meet meet- ing will ill be the greatest In the tho history of at the tho west T Te e I horsemen want to tc come here In the spring rather than goto goto go goto to Coeur dAlone because the climate hero here Is much better and they will avoid old nolda a lot of t bad weather such as kept the crowds down toward tho the clo close e of oC tho the northern this year ear earTho Tho The meeting was a success this year for tor the reason that the meetings which Wilson Ilson managed atthe at atthe the Lagoon Butte and A Av were successes and anti attracted good horses horse and a 1 hl big following All AU of at the these e went to Spokane If It the dAleno management man man- exercises good Judgment It will help Wilson with the spring meetIng meeting meet meet- ing lag here and hold Its meeting later inthe In Inthe Inthe the season when It will benefit from tho the good which Wilson will do the game at nt the tho Cr very start Quito Quite a number of eastern horses are ore expected to campaign over the western tracks next spring starting with the meeting here Wilson will be In town for tor several days attending to some minor details connected with the Lagoon association after which he will vIll go to Butte Dutte and Seattle for tor the winter |