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COMMENT ON LATONIA AFFAIRS. Cincinnati, O., September 7. "One of the leading stockholders of the Latonia Jockey Club, in an interview, stated some time ago there would be a shake-up before the fall session and that a new-presiding judge and starter would be seen when the gates opened," says the Enquirer. "It was also intimated that there would be a change in the control of the track. The movement to get new blood Infused into the management of the track may be going on. but up to the present no plans have been given out. It has evidently dawned on the turf magnates hereabouts that the time has arrived when the public wants to see the turf in different bands. The day for coining money with a racing plant are about over. The men who squeezed the game for all that was In it are not wanted. The public wants to patronize the game, but wants the. money to go to men who are in the game for the. sport it affords. This country is getting toward the day when a race track must represent something to the community. A certain percentage of the receipts will go into the state fund and take some of the burden off the taxpayer. This, in connection with limited meetings, will cut deep Into the profits and not make a race course something akin to a gold mine. The French law. which declares only a small dividend to be declared, the excess in profits to go to the purses and stakes of the next meeting, is a good one. and makes the operating of race tracks in France a real sport, and not. like in this country, a business."
