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CELLA WILL ASK FOR THIRTY DAYS. Louisvilles Fall Meeting Is to Be Held at Douglas Park. Louisville, Ky., August 30. If Louis A. Cella has liis way about it there will lie thirty days racing at Douglas Park this fall. At the meeting of the Kentucky State Racing Commission to be held in Lexington September 11 the fall dates for this city arc to be allotted.- It Is understood that the commission is opposed to granting more than fifteen days. Cella will maintain that he is entitled to thirty days under the state law and by the agreement made In the spring out of which came the formation of the holding company to control bolh tracks here. The understanding in the spring was that Churchill Downs should have the spring dates and Douglas Park would get thirty days in the fall. During the summer the State Fair Association opened negotiations for the purchase of Douglas Park, and for a time it was supposed that- the fall racing would be over the Churchill Downs track, hut the officials of the State Fair Association failed to meet Collas terms and the deal for the plant was called off. The fair is to be held at Churchill Downs.
