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LOOK FOR RACING AT NEW ORLEANS. Lexington. Ky., December 10. The movement for a test of the Locke law, which was inaugurated with a race at City Park last Wednesday, has enkindled hope in the breasts of a horde of idle horsemen in this vicinity and elsewhere that New Orleans will again be on the racing map in the near future. The horsemen here are aware that the Locke law has been submitted to a score or more eminent lawyers and jurists in Louisiana and other states of the Union and that all of these have said that it will not stand when it comes up for dissection in a court of competent jurisdiction. The law is alleged to be faulty in more than one particular. The caption of the bill under which it was enacted by the legislature is. they say. not in keeping with the body of the measure: it fails to annul a section in the Code Napoleon which was adopted into the constitution of the State of Louisiana under which betting on horse racing is in more than a doubtful degree sanctioned. But the chief fault is that it clearly does not prohibit bookmaking. say these attorneys, inasmuch as there is a vast difference between a betting book, the use of which is prohibited, and bookmaking. which Is not mentioned at all in the law. Under a recent decision covering the rights of a foreign corporation in the State of Louisiana, it is expected that the case will go into the United States Court at New Orleans for a final hearing, since the majority of the stock in the New Orleans Jockey Club is owned and controlled by Edward Corrigan and other non-residents of Louisiana. So the impression prevails here that the Locke law will be knocked out and that racing will be resumed in Now Orleans within the next thirty days, the two tracks alternating as hi the past. This belief is so strong that W. J. Young, Dan T. Morris, W. E. Oots. Walter Grater. J. C. Milam. James P. Ross. Gallaher Brothers. Frank Grosche. W. L. Lewis and several others owning and training considerably more than 100 horses at the Kentucky Association track arc now actively engaged in getting Toady for shipment as soon as the word is passed that racing is to be resumed. There will be no trouble alout getting horses enough for the racing when the tracks are re-opened.
