St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 13

'f IT. LO U(S POST-DISPATCH PART TWO ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1950 PAGES 1 8B The fish was caught on an or Lands 50-Pound Catfish. ABILENE, Aug. 9 (AP) Sam Owens of Abilene made the record catch of the year here when he hauled a 50-pound catfish out of the Smoky Hill river.

in' charitable affairs. His philanthropies have been numerous and non-sectarion. ii-hm wnrcra rrra 1905 and wrecked 4 all racing here. Delmar, turned into a residence and apartment subdivision, was worth millions and Cap Tilles himself realized more than $2,000,000 from real estate operations there. V.

Today Tilles, long retired, is hale and takes a keen interest But he still has a keen eye and a good word for the thoroughbred racing business. BANQUET TABLES for CHOOL CHURCHES HOTELS, ETC. Rritted or Sold 'ALL STYLES AND SIZES Wood or Steel SI tiWSSWS I I I CEDAR POSTS 3x46 4x4 4x410 ANDREW SCHAEFER 4230W Natural Bridge NE. e868 Free Delivery City and County $1.02 $1.80 W3230 WASHINGTON FR.5700J 9 AM. to 9 P.M." now wpen Friday Give Vjow- Boy WEIL Now Open Fridays fair paid the winner more than 46 grand.

At one time the C.A.T. trio operated three race tracks here Delmar and Kinloch in addition to Fairgrounds. It was Cap Tilles who insisted on the Delmar location because, as Cap argued, a race track almost in the city limits and on a car line couldn't lose. The Delmar track proved a Tnighty financial bulwark when the Missouri Legislature ruled out all race track betting in HO STOOPINO TO THE FLOOR WHEN YOU OWN A CROSLEY APIIIIItlia in wHh SiSSBS $11016)95 You'll get along Faster by Day If you study by night TroiniB for the batter fobs in business Is eur specialty. Secretarial, Stenographic, Accounting Re fr ether Courses.

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'ii i i GLASSES ET OF He Promoted Night Races In St. Louis 58 Years Ago. OW do they look to you at night, Cap?" a friend asked of C. A. (Cap) Tilles, as they viewed the night running horse races from Fair-mount track's clubhouse, last Friday.

Tilles, now 85 years of age, operated the first night race meeting in history, at the old South Side Park, in 1892. "'It's quite different from our experiment of nearly 60 years ago," grinned "Cap," who has retired from active real estate, horse racing and other business enterprises with which he was formerly identified. "The night tracks of today are marvelously lighted. And the racing visibility is excellent. I think there is a great future in floodlight race tracks.

So many more persons are at leisure in the evening and therefore able to attend." "How was the lighting at your park? Was it satisfactory?" "Of course, neither the plant nor our lights could in any way compare with this Fairmount setup. South Side Park was on Russell avenue at about the site of the present McKinley high school, I think. We had not intended to go into the racing business at all, when we acquired this property. The late Al Spink (uncle of J. G.

Taylor Spink of the Sporting News), George Mc-. Manus (manager of the old Grand 'Opera House), myself and others wet interested in the South Side location as a baseball park. Originally Planned a 'Brotherhood Ball Park. HT expected to obtain a VV franchise in the new-" ly-formed 'Brotherhood Baseball and thought we had a franchise. As events turned out we didn't have one.

We had the park on our hands then and Mc-Manus suggested we make a race of it and run at night. "The park was large enough only for a three-eighths of a mile race track. This made it much, easier to light than would have been the case with a mile oval. "The floodlight system of today was of course not available -then. We used the old-fashioned arc lights two points of carbon furnishing the brilliant arc, 'which attracted thousands of bugs.

"You'd probably consider the place very primitive today. But we had some good riders. Little Tod Sloan got a start there. You remember how famous he became. One day Tod had a mount in the Owner's Handicap.

He weighed only 58 pounds The owner actually had to tie him on that horse. No, he didn't win. "Horses? There were plenty of race tracks around then and for a time we got plenty of them from The grooms walked them over to our track and then back home. "We used the old bookmaker betting ring arrangement and did well for a time. Race tracks at Madison and East St.

Louis and Chris Von Der Abe's night track at League Park began operating. Von Der Ahe's track was only a quarter of a mile around. "We raced about two years before we decided to abandon night racing and later entered the horse racing game on a bigger and higher plane. "Night racing died out for almost half a century before improved lighting systems. The lights revived night meets In a major way.

I really think floodlight racing will have a great future. Certainly the trotters and pacers have found it to be a gold mine." The Enterprises Became a Keal Bonanza. THE night track launched by Tilles and his associates, Sam Adler and Louis Cella, on a series of enterprises that eventually made fortunes for the "CAT." group. They operated in East St. Louis and Madison and then in St.

Louis, where they reached their peak when they acquired the old Fairgrounds race track one of the finest in the country and enjoying national prestige. The socialite group that had operated this track for so long was having difficulty but under Tilles and his associates it proved a great1 money-maker, attracting some of the country's greatest race horses. The first $50,000 added-money race was run there the World's Fair Handicap although the big race put on at Chicago in 1893, to advertise their world's CURRENT DIVIDEND ON YOUR SAVINGS ACCOUNTS INSURED TO $5000 Writ for our Circular giving all details Community Federal SJWKSS 1 LOAN ASSOCUTIOX S944 St. Charles ReV Vlnfield 4600 PARKING 3524 WASHINGTON, JUST rc-'G LASSES ZZi e) Eight 13-ox. Roty Poly Tumblers with blue and azure bands.

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