Year ago the California Jockey Club, headed by Novelist Peter B. Kyne, baptized the new $500,000 Bay Meadows track, 20 miles out of San Francisco, with high hopes. Promptly these hopes were dashed. Rain always transformed the new track into a morass of mud which always dried out hard as rock, ruined the hoofs of many a horse, the disposition of many a jockey.
One day last spring, the disgruntled directors motored to Pacific Portland Cement Co.'s nearby plant to arrange for reconditioning the track surface with new soil and oystershells. Instead of this...
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