The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-08-21
TURF BASES HOPE
ON WINTER TRACKS
Oakland, Juarez and Florida
Associations Planning
Active Seasons.
WILL FIGHT IN THE EAST
HORSEMEN SAY NEW YORK
WILL YET BE SAVED.
BY BERT E. COLLYER.


Chicago, Ill, August 20-Now that
the pessimists have placed an air Of
finaIity upon the life Of racing in and
about New York. having set the de-
mise of the sport OF kings" in met
ropoIitan circles as September 1, il
might be of moment to an
nounce that the winter tracks, or
rather representative OF Juarez'
jacksonville and Oakland are mighty
busy bees.
The writer is in recent OF a letter
bearing the stamp of 0fficialdom,
that Moncrief park, Jacksonville, VIII
throw open its gates November 10, 10
remain open 100 or more racing days.
JuareZ. owing 10 improvements. Will
not be ready for occupancy until NO
Yember "a, the original date. How
ever, Oakland, with all the astuteness
of one Tom Williams brought 70 play
will attempt TO PREJUDICE the start
by opening up November Il. rms
assures the hOrsemen Of plenty Ct
winter racing. and like the procrasti-
mating gentlemen from Mississippi, l
am in favor OF letting effete New
York take care of herself
That the race track owners have
not been scared off by all this rabble
talk, including the statement that the
purses hung up would necessarily be
! reduced 10 the mere pittance usually
donated at fairs and the like, is born
/ out by the announcement of both
Manager Winn of the JuareZ plant
/ also Francis J. Pons, the dominant
/ factor in racing in and about Jack
/ sOnVille. Winn announces a grand
/ aggregate for 100 days of racing as
/ $500. 900. while POns goes the gen.
| tleman from Louisville a few thou
sand better, naming SS50,O00 as the
/ amount to be hung up in stakes ano
purses during the forthcoming winter
! session Without dilating upon tins
/ ifs" and "ands' of the cause OF al
/ this activity, il might be Of moment
10 mention that $350.000 hung up a.
/ winter tracks is far and away a new
record: hence it would not seen
that the sport is in such a bad way
after all
The well-infOrmed intimate that i
| the sport is 10 be saved in the cas-
| r. T. Wilson, jr., owner OF the con
| trolling interest at Saratoga, is thu
/ Moses to lead the befuddled out o.
/ the wilderness and the bondage o
/ restrictive and cOnfiscatOry legtsla
ton. Mr.. Wilson, it is said, is read!
! to put up a better fight for the pres
| ervatiOn of racing than has beef
| shown by any of the older men. Wh'
have long been in control of the spOr
in the metropolitan district tnde
the various decisions rendered in tn,
cases brought under the operation o
the Hart-Agnew law. which, on Sep
TENDER l, will be supplemented by TN
Perkins law, oral betting has beef
legal, and the fact that the parties t.
such a wager settled Immediately il
cash did not constitute an offence.
/ Despite this the tracks did not per
nit settlement of bets, so all specuiat
ing had to be done on a credit bast
and the settlement made outside rae
ing hours. 1t was usually done befOr
the first race the next day. or els
somewhere else in town as agree
upon by the parties to the transac
ton. But now as previously an
nounced, Saratoga has thrown off tn
assumed ties, and while the law a
interpreted by the courts is bein
lived up To advantage is being take
of its rivileges-wagers being PAL
IF Immediately after tRe running D
each race.
King James to Retire.
King James. by PlaUdit out of Tn
slightly, is said 10 have gone so Sc
riously amiss he must be retired {
the stud. He is a good horse at hi
best and Of one of the stoutest line
in the country. being Alarm on bot
sides and it is the Alarm appal
emily, we must pin our faith and hop
as TO the future American" thor
oughbred. The point is. If Kin
James is retired. TO what farm will
go. Last year there was a subcuti
neQus scandal as to the relation an
ownership of the Hildreth horse
bred by Madden. Exactly the san
cOnsanguinity was winked at tn
year by the governing body and stew
ards and has existed up TO the pre-
ent. What will be done if King Jane
goes direct TO the Madden menag
where old Plaudit stands awaiting n
illustriOus son? II is worth Whi
sticking this paragraph up somewhel
lust TO remind one not TO lose sigi
of the interesting contingency. Ia