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EL PASO MEETING IRREGULAR. Beaumont. Texas, December 1. At a meeting of the Texas Thoroughbred Association, held this evening, a resolution was passed by which William Murray, of El Paso, Texas, was refused a franchise for the midwinter sixty-day meet at that place. Mr. Murray will hold an Independent meet. Dates granted the San Antonio Racing Jockey Club to hold a meeting in that city for nineteen days, beginning December 12. was ratified. Galveston applied for dates for the early part of the year, and the matter was referred to the committee. The resolution adopted against Murrays application was as follows: That the sentiment of the meeting is that commercial racing is antagonistic to the perpetuation of the racing interests in the state of Texas and that the efforts of the association here represented be directed to discouragement of such meeting to the fullest extent of their power," The schedule for the dates for the year 1909 was referred to a committee, which rip to the present has not reported. This was done because Louisiana. Oklahoma and Texas applicants for meets "had tho same dates in many instances.
