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NEWPORT. Being asked by the representative of a Cincinnati paper last Wednesday about the future of the Newport track, Manager Frank Fowler had this to Bay: " Of conrte there will be a meeting at Newport, but beyond that I can fay nothing. We have no placB whatever for the future. I have nothing to E8y with reference to the action of the people with whem I waB allied in the fight against the Weetern Jockey Club last season. I am not looking for eympatby from any quarter, and I can truthfully say that what hap pened at Chicago was not surprising to me. I could bave foretold it all nearly six months ago had I been eo diepoecd. I am o,uite sure that had I made, application for dates from the Western Jockey Club I would have been accommodated, but I am not built that way. Dates seem to have been banded around rather promiscuously whan the southern tracks came alon with the contribution box. "It has been suggested to Manager Fowler that he open Newport at once to the kind of skates that churned the icy mud in the days of Guttenburg, put on a foreign book and get aU out of the track possible. "It- wns Johnny Fay, the well-known turfman, who made this ecggSBtion. " Yes, I told Fowler, said Fay, that I believed the track to be a dead proposition so far aB legitimate racing is concerned unless he would get into the Western Jockey Clubs band I waaon, and since he doesnt eeem disposed to do that I told him that if he had a notion of getting any coin out of it he ought to open up right now with a foreign book. He could hang up 50 purees and get all the horses bo would need. There wouldnt be any Yankees or Nasturtiums or Abe Franks, to be sure, but they would do to bot on. "Without a race meeting at least once a year, the Newport track is not self-supporting and it is very clear that Mr. Fowler and his associates have got to give come kind of a meeting or give up the grounds. "The property is leased from the Gest estate and the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and the expense of its maintenance without a meeting is Eomothing like ,CC0 por year. Winter racing is never popular and the merest mention of a foreign book to peopla who havo the best interest of the turf at heart is positively nauseating." By way of comment on the foregoing, it may be said that Newport and Highland Park did not apply to tho Western Jockny Club, at its annual meeting, for a license and dates. There is no reason to doubt that such an application would have been successful. There is abundant timo, however, for inch action and it is more than probable that the applications will be filed by next spring.
