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PLAN TO TEST THE LOCKE LAW. Xew Orleans. La.. December 15. Racing will open at City Park track tomorrow afternoon in an effort to test the Locke law. The first race will be run at 2:50 oclock, and there will be bookmaking. This announcement when made this afternoon came as a scnsaitional stroke from an unexiieeted quarter. It was known that Edward Corrigan had spent a week here and that lie had consulted lawyers, and it was stated that he wanted to test the law. hut he dropjied no inkling that he had perfected plans for doing so. Corrigaii did not remain to see the fun. He luicitly departed anil left his lieutenants here to do the work and get arrested in their plan to test the state law. President Samuel F. Heaslip. of the Xew Orleans Jockey Club, professed entire ignorance of tiie plan to run races and try out the law. The Xew Orleans Jockey Club is in no way interested in the proposition and has nothing whatever to do with it. Mr. Heaslip declared. He said no one had asked him for the keys of the track and he had taken no part in the arrangements. Hon. K. Howard McCaletb, attorney, stated that he had been retained to test the law and that races will lie run tomorrow. "The law will not hold water." asserted Judge McCaleb. "and wo will shoot it full of holes. Bookmaking will bo conducted, ami if the men are arrested the law will be given a test. The picturesque feature of the whole scheme is that grass lias grown over City Park track in places knee high, and the spectacle of running horses around it will be a novel one.
