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KAY BACK AT LOUISVILLE. A dispatch from Louisville to yesterdays Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune read as fol lows : "Louisville is going to have a fall race meeting after all. At least, there is every indication to believe this, and the report is partly confirmed by the answer to a telegram which was sent last night to one of the principal men interested in the plan. This is Mr. J. J. Douglass, owner of the trotting track, who Ib now in Petoskey, Mich. "The report gained currency yesterday afternoon that arrangements had been practically completed to open a fall meeting at Mr. Douglass track, and that it might be extended into the coming winter. The story ran that Parmer and Hendrie, who control and operate the Can-adian racing circuit, ware the men most inter-eseed in the Louisville venture. Mr. Douglass wbb asked about the story by wire, and he replied la3t night in the following telegram. " Petoskey, Mich., September 10. Yes. Fort Erie people are negotiating for my track. Have wired me for terms, which have been given. " J. J. Douglass. "There is every indication at present that the American Turf Congress people will make Louisville their headquarters during the coming fall and possibly early winter. Nearly every horse owner that has been racing on the Turf Congress tracks at St. Louis, Newport and the Canadian circuit will, it is claimed, be quartered at the Douglass track when the meeting begins." "A prominent turf man who is familiar with the doings of ail the race track officials of both factions says the fall meeting here will begin about the second week in Octobar, as the Fort Erie and Delmar meetings will be over by that time. " It is the intention of the St. Louis people to race at the Fair Grounds after the Delmar meeting, said the turfman, but it is nearly the unanimous opinion of the turf people in St. Louis that the Fair Grounds will be clos ed under the racing laws of Missouri. " Louisville will be the place all the hors es and the entire Turf Congress will camp this fall, and I believe they will give the people some good racing here with their whole outfit to draw from."
