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FOR RACING AT HOT SPRINGS. Efforts to Obtain Modification of the Amis Law to Bo Renewed at Next Session of Legislature. Dan A. Stuart, a prominent stockholder in Oak lawn race track at Hot Springs. Ark., was in Chicago yesterday en route trom Hot Springs to his summer home in Vermont He called on John Condon who is likewise heavily interested in Oiklaun. and the wo had an extended conference in relation to the Arkansas situation with respect to racing leg islatioti. It is assorted that the legislature which recently adjourned would surely have enacted the bill legalising racetrack betting at Hot Springs, which passed He- senate, had I he measure reached tl lower house fust a trifle sooner than it did. The test votes taken indicated a favorable outcome could Una I action have been reached before the adjournment of the Trtflnlalaif. The efforts to obtain a mollification of the Amis law. which put the Arkansas tracks out of business, will be renewed at next winters session of the legislature. The people of Hot Springs are virtu ally a unit for the resumption of racing, and the campaign to restore the stxirt will be undertaken i.i such season that the issue may lie decided on its merits. Those most vitally interested are hopeful of a favorable outcome iu time for a spring meeting one year hence. It is stated on goad authority that he Oaklawu 55? ,.1,:!,k ".". stands its owners |na| about r.n. 25?; •■•* •"r1"1 «°» " ,1» 11int amounted to a ball million dollars. I immutable meetings cost if upkeep and expenses incidental lo the efforts tl,,-have lieen put forth to re-establish racing account or Ihe remainder. Could racing be conducted at Hot Springs under the conditions that prevail on the American turf at the present time there is no dou.t in the minds of those interested in the plant that the financial results would be much more satisfactory than Ihose attendant upon previous meetings.
