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MORE RACING PROVIDED FOR CHICAGO. The two days of racing at Hawthorne for the benefit of the Letter Carriers Inion, gave such overwhelming testimony to the undiminished local appetite for the great sport that the turfmen, who had brought tbeir horses here from Latonia. petitioned the owners of the track for a repetition of the experiment. This Mr. Carey lias granted to the vxtent l hat it is announced there will be a card of six races at Hawthorne next Saturday and six the following Monday, with no public betting allowed. Chicago is a natural turf center, but has been deprived of racing for a number of years without any very g.xid reason. Racing horses for money prisea offered by an individual or an association of individuals is as lawful as selling salt. But betting on lacing, or anything else, is not lawful. It was be cause of the declared purpose of States Attorney Healey to prosecute track offenders against the laws penalizing betting that the sport was hastilv abandoned here in MM. All the time the laws of this state bearing on the matter have been without change, the same under whieh racing was conducted over our loea] track* from that date back io 1S92. Looking over the situation in all its ■ape eta it Minis that racing without recognized betting might as well be carried on here as not. But one thing js eertahl and that is that such racing must be without the revenue formerly derived from an open betting ring. That is an Institution that belongs to the past. Racing for racings sake and not lor betting is what can be established here profitably and what should be. Witli good horses running, i lie people will come out to see them in action. Any local effort should be in the way of securing recognised good bones sad providing good racing conditions, looking to the "•gate" alone tor reiiu-bam ssent, totally ignoring the matter of betting, except to the extent of preventing any outbreak of public bookmaking. Racing in Kentucky terminates July IS and with a big band Oi good horses iKiund to go elsewhere, an • Kperimental meeting of a week or two might prove interesting, would bring most of them hen and ntofkif racing with sufficient daily variety and mo t important of all. would probably show conclusively that it is entirely practicable to conduct racing over Chicago tracks without the old time offensive adjunct of au open betting ring and resultant hostile critic ism. ____
