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JOHN CONDON BACK IN CHICAGO. California Racing Hangs on the Legal Test The Local Situation, Joliet, Etc. John Condon landed in Chicago yesterday after a two-months trip in the west. He has been to California visiting Tom Williams at his ranch on the St. Cloud river, near Mount Shasta in Washington taking in the Seattle exposition and came home through the Canadian Rockies by way of Colorado. He has no connection witli the race meeting to be held at Denver next month. The Overland Park meeting will be for the poorer grade of horses and held in connection with the state fair. In all there will be thirteen davs of racing, with three Saturdays September 11 to September 25. The fair dates are September 13-1S. The opening day and the last six days of the tbirteen-..ays meeting will therefore be sidelights of the fair. There is still a lack of harmony among the folks who should foster and well manage racing in Denver. Mr. Condon, talking of the California racing situation, said: "The lawyers out there say that the Walker-Otis law will not stand judicial fire. That is said of all anti-racing laws. They do stand judicial fire, however, and I must have more than expensive opinion before I consider a law defective enough to go to great expense in anticipation of it being declared bad law. If the Walker-Otis law stands, 1 am not in favor of racing in California. I do not. think that it would be successful under the oral svstem of betting." With reference to the rumors about the near-racing at Joliet and the proposed picnic events at Hawthorne Labor Day being part of a deep scheme to start racing in Chicago. Mr. Condon laughingly declared that he had nothing to do with any "entering wedge" racing schemes at Joliet or m Chicago and did not believe that there would be any real racing in Chicago this year.
