Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-09
JOCKEY CLUB IS
WELL PROMOTED
SALT LAKE CITY BUSINESS
MEN AT ITS HEAD
Capitalists of Mormon Capital Make
Certain That Spring Meeting
Will Be Success-$30o,o
Plant to Be Built
BY JAY DAVIDSON

announcement yesterday OF the IN
corporation of the Utah Jockey club,
which will be the controlling turf body
in Utah in future, by men of recog-
nized standing in the business world
of that state has inspired a materially
greater degree of confidence among
horsemen in the success of the sport
in that state. Publication of the names
of the officials of the new turf body
gave horsemen and the general pub
lie it's first knowledge regarding the
personnel of that body, and when it
became known that the promoters of
the new jockey club are men of wealth
and highest standing in business cir
cles in that state, amply able to guar
antee the financial success of their
plans and men who never were con-
nected with failures of any kind, all
doubt regarding the success of their
plans was removed.
1t is known now that the Utah
Jockey club is to be recognized as d
controlling turf body on the same foot
ing as the Pacific Jockey club, the
Western Jockey club and the Jockey
club which controls metropolitan rae
ing, and 1t will exercise a jurisdiction
over all meetings to be held in Utah
in future. The Salt Lake City meet
ing will be the first to receive license
from the new organization and the
officials of the Utah Jockey club will
be officials of the organization which
will hold the race meet at Salt Lake
City.
John Condron, the president, is pro-
prietor of the Cullen hotel, a wealthy
man and a large land owner in that
city and state, and is one of the fore
most citizens of the state. Ben john
son, the vice president, is another capt.
IN OF oil lie n
members of the Utah bar. w. II. Glea-
son, treasurer, is a multimilllonalre
mining man of New Mexico and titan
and a thorough sportsman. Albert
Hess, one of the directors, is another
wealthy Salt Lake City business man.
These names are sufficient guarantee
that the plans for building 100000
racing plant at Salt Lake City will be
carried out without a hitch, and that
modern plant will be built.
Plans already are under way for
building this racing plant, and work
will begin before the spring meeting is
half finished, and it is probable that it
will be completed in time for holding
the fall meeting there. Manager Finn
said last night that he considers 1t
very probable that the fall meeting will
be held on the grounds of the associa-
ton. Whether a racing plant viii be
built at Ogden this year depends upon
future uGClSlOH, Dul III ali plpp'biiiNS
the Ogden plant will be built this year
and two meetings will be held in the
two cities each year, spring and rail-
meeting at each track.
The meeting that Is being advertised
for Ogden to begin early next month is
of uncertain status, it is reported, and
in all probability it will be run indie
pendently. if at all. The Utah Jockey
club will not recognize the meeting,
and as it is the controlling turf body
in that territory there is slight chance
that the Pacific Jockey club will at
tempt to invade the territory and
license the Ogden meeting. The Utah
Jockey club naturally may be expected
to place a ban upon horses running at
the Ogden meeting because it will be
held within its territory and without
it's sanction. This is a matter for
horsemen to investigate if they con-
template racing at Ogden.
Manager Finn said last night that
the spring meeting at Salt Lake City
would not depend entirely upon local
support because the tourists and Wis
itors at the Seattle exposition, going
and coming, had been granted a ten
day stopover privilege in Salt Lake
city and that these visitors would ma
terially increase the daily attendance
throughout the season. Salt Lake City
has a population of $4,000 persons and
is amply large enough to support the
meeting. but this added snnn0rt from