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MISSOURI CHANCES CONSIDERED FAIR. Lexington, Ky., January 17. Secretary W. B. Bidwell of the Kentucky State Racing Commission is in receipt of a communication from John D. Kuapp, secretary of the Missouri Racing Committee, St. Louis, which will be read at the meeting of the commission next Tuesday. Mr. Knapp incloses a copy of the new racing law that the Missouri legislature, now in session at Jefferson City, will be asked to enact. He says that copies of the bill are now being mailed throughout the State of Missouri and that its supporters will go to Jefferson City early in February to urge its adoption. Mr. Knapp does not express his opinion as to its chances, but letters from other Missourians lately received by local horsemen are to the effect that it is as good as an even money proposition that there will be racing in Missouri this year and thereafter. Many letters for a copy of the Kentucky law and information with reference to the pari-mutuel system and its operation have been received by the Kentucky State Racing Commission from loading residents of California, Tennessee. Florida. Louisiana, Texas. Oklahoma, Colorado. New York, Pennsylvania. Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. It is beginning to look as if the people of this country are awakening to the havoc wrought by the enactment of repressionary laws anil that the trend is for safe and sane measures for the government of the great sport of racing.
