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NO CONFLICT AT JACKSONVILLE. Second Track Will Not Be Built and Its Promoters Will Devote Themselves to Tampa. St. Louis, 3Io., July 10. Joseph A. 3Inrphy, who is here, has received a letter from Francis J. Pons, vice president of the Moncreif Fair Association at Jacksonville. Fla.. in which the Information Is given that a lot of work is being done at the track. 3Ir. Pons writes that they are working daily at the track claying it. A " pipe is being run around the entire track so thnt it can be sprinkled without the use of a sprinkler. Eighteen new stables of thirty-six stalls each are lieing built and the grandstand is being enlarged to double its original size.- Pleasing information is that there will be no conflict at Jacksonville. Joseph Strode, who has been promoting the new track there, left for Tampa yesterday. Before he went south he told 3Ir. 3Iurphy that the Idea of building at Jacksonville had been abandoned. He will give his entire attention to the Tampa proposition. The Jacksonville meeting promises to be one of the greatest winter meetings ever held in this country. When at Hamilton 3Ir. 3Iurphy was besieged with requests for Information concerning the Jacksonville meeting by horsemen and followers of racing. It now looks as though Florida would he the horsemens 31ecca next winter.
