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GOSSIP OF THE TURF. . Unless present conditions undergo some material change, there is a very strong probability that Kansas City, which has been so long without a race track, will during the coming season have two, one of which will be at Fairmount Park and the other on some suitable tract on the Swopa Park boulevard. The directors of the Fairmount Jockey Club held another meeting recently at the Baltimore Hotel, Kansas City, which was attended by C. C. Christie, as a representative of the men who are backing the South Sidoproppsifcrjn. While no definite attior. of any sort was taken, and the peace negotiations were not finally declared off, it served to show the difficulty of effecting any agreement between the two interests. Mr. Christie considers that the club simply invites him to come in and be swallowed, and as he refuses to coneider Fairmount Park as a site for a race track, there seems to be little chance for an agreement. Unless Mr. Christies nerve fails him, it is almost certain that there will be two race tracks next year, as he will not join the Fairmount proposition, and the Fairmount people show an equally decided opposition to the South Side plan. "In my opinion," he said, "the only way to make a race meeting a success is to make it a society event, as the horse show is. In that case we have to take into consideration the people who drive, and not one would think of driving out toward Fairmount, while the boulevards south of town are very popular for that purpose, and the people we want would all drive out there for a racing meet. The others would come anyway." The chief point which the Fairmount promoters urged in support of their site was its great superiority in the matter of transportation, both for passengers and freight, "If a big fair is to be held," said J. D. Eubank, one of the directors of the club, "the matter of freight facilities will have to be taken into con-sideration, and we are oxcellently equipped in that respect."J The principal matters which were discussed by the directors of the Fairmount Club, aside fromjthe question of the site, were the amount of stock to be issued, and the grandstand. Both of these will be discussed more fully at another meeting to be held today. It has been decided to erect a grandstand at Fairmount Park, and, although the details of construction have not been arranged, it is almost certain that it will be of steel and will cost in the neighborhood of 0,000. H. B. Baker, of St. Louis, Mo., owner of Jack Young, with which he won eleven races this season as a two-year-old, has purchased of Milton Young of McGrathiana Stud, at a private price, the bay yearling colt by Pirate of Penzance Mariet, by King Alfonso. He was shipped to St. Louis Saturday in company with the following four yearlings, which R. A. Baker, of Lexington, Ky bought for the St. Louis turfman at the McGrathiana sales in New York: Chestnut colt, by Tammany RhodaEGale, by JiJs Johnson. Brown filly, by Troubadour Rosary, by King Ban. Chestnut filly, by Handball-Mallow, by Falsetto. Brown filly, by Handball Flying Witch, by Duke of Montrose. Jfi
