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A ST. LOUIS TANGLE. St. Louis, Mo., July 19. Matters bearing on the probable opening of Einloch Park race track on August 15 are in a rather unsettled condition. On Thursday night John S. Bratton eaid that he had arranged for the opening and that the track would be operated by him and his friends. Last night it was found out that Gapt. Patrick J. Carmody had secured a lease on the track for the fifteen days racing allowed by the Western Jockey Club for a sum said to be 50 a day. Mr. Carmody says that he has an option on the lease, has the money and will operate the track. Timothy D. Sullivan of New York is said to have a share in Mr. Carmodys enterprise. 4Some of the firatton people, who are stockholders in Einloch, said yesterday that Mr. Carmody would not be allowed to operate the track. They said that he secured his lease from Phil Chew, a real estate man who has had charge of the Kinloch Park as general manager. The Bratton interests claim that no lease or option on a lease is valid without the consent and signature of J. D. Lucas, president of the Kinloch Park Racing Association. They also claim that Mr. Lucas is lined up with them and will not rent the track to any one else. Mr. Lucas was not to be seen yesterday. Further, the Bratton party hint that Mr. Carmody does not mean to open the park at all, but leased it in the interest of certain parties who, tfie Bratton people say, are interested in keeping Kinloch Park shut down. Captain Carmody says that he will race as sure as the sun shines and asserts that he is operating in his own interest and that of his partners, who want to run races on the track and operate the plant. The Bratton contingent is talking of getting out injunctions, putting the property into the bauds of a receiver, etc.
