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MOVE FOR RACING LAW IN TEXAS. Xew York, January 24. Robert Levy, manager of the Jamestown track, writes from Houston, Tex., that the fair associations and breeders of thoroughbred and trotting horses in Texas have united in a movement to get a racing bill framed along the lines of the Kentucky law on the statute books of Texas this winter. Among the prominent Texans behind the movement to re-establish racing are Senator Joseph W. Bailey, who is interested with Garrett Wilson in the Iroquois Stud. J. W. Fuller, the banker and farmer of Xorthern Texas, who wort a Brooklyn Handicap with Tokalon, Samuel Lazarus of Abilene and Fred T. Wood, well known as a breeder of thoroughbred stock. The plan of . the Texans provides for a racing commission, which will limit meetings spring and fall, apportion dates fairly, collect a tax on gate receipts for road improvements and provide for home control of the sport.
