The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-14
LONG MEETINGS
 DEATH OF RAGING

Chicago. November 13.-If Robert Levy, the youthful promoter of the race meet ing at Jamestown, Va, harkens to the advice of George Rose, the dominant fac tor in and about palatial Santa Anita, he will not attempt protracted meetings According to MT. Rose it was lo0-day and 15O-day sessions that precipitated the peath knef of racing in California
 Don't" said Mir Rose to MT. Levy, 'Iet any man persuade you to try 60 or s0-day meetings at Norfolk. The climate there is suitable for winter racing, l understand; the town is admirably equipped for the entertainment of win ter colony from the north and east, and the public sentiment seems to be with you.
 You might get away with 100-day meeting once and make lot of money. But ultimately the very people who want to see you succeed now would turn against you and before you realized it Virginia would shut down on the thor oughhred.
 "l know whereof l speak We over did racing in California. If we had been content to have two meetings at Los Angeles one in December and one in March. the states would be up in Cali fornia today We were making money so swiftly and so easily we lost our | heads and failed to see that we were offending people who had been with us | first and who had striven hard to boost | our game along.
 'T do not think there Is any room for doubt but that we will ultimately get | back at Los Angeles. And when we do | we will have short meetings. If we de- eide that 1t will be better to have one moderately long meeting rather than two short ones, our long session will not extend beyond 30 days
 Santa Anita the Los Angeles course in which Mir Rose is interested, is one of the most picturesquely situated and best equipped racing plants in the eoun- | try. The main track is one mile and a furlong in circumference, with schutes for the mile, also seven furlong dashes. The going is light and easy and the course so well constructed that several American records have been hung up there The most notable of these are Centre Shots mile of 1:37 1-5 and Cha pultepec's slx-furlong record of Ill. The plant has not been used for one year, | but the property has not been allowed 10 disintegrate MT. Rose, who was | recently in California, states that every thing is in tip-top shape and if neces- ! sary racing could begin there agaih on 24 hours notice.
 The news of the appointment of Joseph J. Burke and E. c. Smith of New York to the posts of presiding and associate judges of the Tampa and Pensacola meetings has been confirmed, also, has meet with hearty approval from the horsemen and racing fraternity at large Both are old-time newspaper men Witf a wide and thorough knowledge Of the game Mi Burke has for many years filed the position of presiding judge or some of the principal tracks of canads and his work has been uniformly satis factory to horsemen and the public alike MT. Smith, probably, was seen to tn' best advantage during the life of yac ing at Los Angeles. where he hlied m position of racing secretary. That th mana cement of the Florida meetings ar to be congratulated upon securing sucl competent officials, goes almost withou saying-they lend tone and importanc where heretofore the stigma of merry go-round prevailed.