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TODAYS BEST. At City Park Airship, fiftli race. At. Crescent Park Logistilhi, liftli race. At Ascot Park The Roustabout, fifth race. At Oaklawn Miss Strome, second race. At Oakland Malel Hollander, first, race. Rest of the day Loglstilla. Without discussing the merits or demerits, rights or wrongs of the two bodies seeking to govern racing in the west, it is Plainly apparent that in the A Call to long run the sport itself is Owners, doomed to destruction if the present senseless clashing is to continue much longer. The truth is that the men who presumptively should he bending all their energies to the safeguarding of racing are at present its worst enemies and doing more to bring it into disfavor than all outside hostile agencies combined. There is one body of men more vitally interested in the perpetuity of the sport than any other. This body is composed of the owners of the horses raced over the various tracks and these men have it easily within their power to end the present alarming conditions. By banding together determinedly and refusing to race their horses until men of as high class and imbued with as disinterested motives as the stewards of the Jockey Club have been placed in supreme control of western racing these owners could quickly restore peace and put the racing fabric in condition to withstand the assaults of its many foes. The time is ripe for owners, big and little, to get together and form a union, lest presently their now high-priced racers can only find a vocation as motive power in farming and teaming.
