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PROTECTIVE RACING LAW FOR KENTUCKY. Cliinn Bill, Providing for State Racing Commission, Expected to Be Passed by Legislature. Frankfort, Ky., March 3. That Kentucky is to have a sane racing law, a law which will protect the sport, against the ravages of gamblers and safeguarding it against conditions which caused the closing of the tracks in Missouri and Illinois, Is practically assured. A bill providing for the appointment by the Governor of a state racing commission was introduced in the legislature by Senator J. P. Chinn yesterday. It was printed and read for the second time today a.nd referred to the rules committee. It will be voted upon by the senate Monday, and it is safe to say that it will le passed. It will go to the house Tuesday and it is next to a certainty that it will be passed by that body by Friday. The legislature will adjourn finally on March II!. The bill has the indorsement of the horsemen and business men of this state and among the breeders who are here urging its passage are Milton Young, Thomas C. McDowell and J. N. Camden, Jr. The bill provides that the commission shall be composed of four members. The commission is empowered to grant ami revoke licenses to racing associations, to fix the length of meetings and to adopt rules to govern the conduct of race meetings. Governor Beckham is a friend to racing. He eu-joys the sport and goes annually to Louisville to witness the running of the Kentucky Derby. That such a measure as this will receive his signature it not doubted. if tiie Chinn bill Incomes a law it will mean the ending of the present embroglio letween the Western Jockey Club and the American Turf Association, in so far as Kentucky Is concerned. It does not necessarily mean that the Western Jockey Club will not be permitted to operate in the state, but it does mean that Louis A. Cella and John Condon will not lie permitted to Introduce into Kentucky St. Louis and Chicago methods to the detriment of such long established racing grounds as are maintained by the L6uisvllle Jockey Club and the La-tonla Jockey Club.
