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RACING AT DALLAS SEEMS ESTABLISHED. "Whether the criterion be the. .attendance or the quality , of the sport, the greatest,- race, meeting ever held in Texas came to an-end yesterday -afternoon at the Fair Grounds," pays, the Dallas News of Sunday last. "As for the. attendance, there has not heen a. day during the meeting that there has been u. vacant seat in the grandstand, which has a capacity of 2:500, and there has riot been a day when there were not at least ns many on the ground as there were in the grandstand. Indeed, it has been the rule, whatever the weather, that twice as many have been present -as could comfortably be accommodated,- and yesterday, the last- of the meeting, notwithstanding the card promised no unusual siwrt, and notwithstanding, also,- a raw northeast wind that threatened- all who braved it, there was such a "crowd as -would have been uncomfortable had the accommodations been twice what they aw, "The popularity of racingwas splendidly attested. And-those who thus manifested their love of it were well repaid in the quality, of the-sport. Never has a larger number of racehorses;: been gathered at a trade in Texas; never has a higher class of. horses contested at a mcetingvein. . -. this state; .And, no matter what a loser here and ther- may- say, the racing has been clean, though hmv of course, never looks for perfect honesty at-ra.. .racetrack.;- All of which, in an inadequate "veajv disposes of- an acknowledgment due tothc""who"baTehad immediate charge of the racing at the Fair Grounds.-
