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LITTLE LIKELIHOOD OF RACING HERE. Reports of Prospective Test of Oral Betting Plan on Chicago Tracks Without Substantial Foundation. As might have lieen expecti d. the transfer of Ed ward Corrigaaa interest in Hawthorne race track to for an I alderman Tom Carer, has given rise to considerable conjecture concerning its probable effect on the prospects for a resumption of racing on the Chicago tracks, a consummation for which lovers of racing throughout the length and breadth of America have been devoutly hoping ever since the sport came to im end locally in 1904. The consensus of well-informed, consei vative opinion is that the Corrigau-Cany transaction will have no immediate effect, at leant, on the local situation and that the reports of tentative plans for the resumption of racing in Chicago, hinted at by a par Hon of the public press, arc without tangible foundation in fact. So far as can Ik- ascertained, the reports in cir culalion anent a test of the oral betting plan ou local Hacks have no substantial basis and there is little likelihood that any such foolish scheme is contemplated by those in control. It probably is a case of the wish being father to the thought. One of the reports referred to credited John Condon with the intention of trving out oral belting at Harlem race track. At the office of the Harlem Jockey Club he alary is pooh-poohed. One of Condons confidants, discussing the local situation, bad this to say: "I can see little hnan for the resumption of rating in Chicago or its vicinity in the verj near future. It is almost a sure thing that there isnt ■ chance for anything in the way of rating this .Mai at least. Were anything in prospect on nay of the Chicago Iracks. it is a certainty that we would know of it. It would only be making matters worse to attentat something that eouhl not be carried to a successful fruition and those interested in the spoil are paticutly biding their lime until things take a turn for the better. So tar as the Harlem track is concerned, the expenditure of a large sum of money, possibly as mack as 0,000, would be necessary to put the plant into condition for a fust-class meeting." Neither Hawthorne nor Worth is in the dilapi dated condition mpreaeated in certain uuarter-. Haw I borne has been kept up and is not overgrown with wi-eds. as alleged by some writers. Recently some work was done on the Worlh track, but p..t with the idea of ils early utilization lor racing pillpi ses. The attitude of the i-ountv administration is tl. nil-it .riant thing in connection with Chicago racing. When Chicagoans enjoyed racing before, it was In sufferance or the officials, and conditions remain unchanged today, so far as this aspect of the case is , olicerned.
