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LATONIAS PROPOSED REORGANIZATION. Cincinnati. O., August 4. It now develops that Joseph Rhinock, Rome Rosposs and Louis A. Cella are behind the reported reorganization of the Latonia Jockey Club. These men have had their stock in the Latonia track ou the market, but there have been no bidders. They are so dissatisfied with the way things have been run at the track that they now plan the purchase of the stock of other members and its sale to new parties. If this is done the administration of affairs at Latonia will lie changed entirely. E. C. Hopper will be made the head of the new organization if it materializes. Judge Hopper, who presides each winter at Oakland, is now at his home in Kentucky. He was formerly general manager of the Latonia track under the Judge Perkins regime, and his methods did much to restore the popularity of racing in this vicinity after tlie sport had suffered from the policy of the preceding management. From tlie time of the opening of the Latonia track until 1895. racing nourished locally. Then its standing was lost in no time as a result of syndi cute methods put into effect by new interests that obtained control. It took Judge Perkins and Judge Hopper throe yearn -to re-establish the lost prestige. With succeeding changes, the sport has since lost ground "and the last two years racing has been uu-proiitably conducted at Latonia,: notwithstanding that it would seem as though Cincinnati and its environs should be amply able to support a meeting of greater pretensions than the Latonia management has attempted.
