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THINKS WELL OF WESTERN PROSPECTS. Phil Reilly, who is officially connected Jn the capacity of clerk of the scales with various meetings in the northwest, passed through Chicago yesterday enroute from Kentucky, where he has l-en studying the operation of the jmri-mutuels, to Ids home at St. Paul. Minn., for a brief visit before returning to British Columbia. Mr. Reilly is an enthusiastic adherent of the parl-mutuel method of wagering and predicts a great expansion of racing in British Columbia under that system. lie says that It is the aim of the directors of the sport In that far western province to adopt the most up-to-date methods that Investigation throughout the world mHy show to he available for the improvement of the pari-mutuel system with the idea of still further increasing its popularity. The substitution of thu pari-mutuels for the bookmaker in British Columbia, he declares, bar. eliminated virtually all the local opposition to the sport thai was manifested at one time. The associations whose meetings are conducted at Minora Park, a model course at Vancouver, are planning to reduce the commission of 10 per cent which was deducted from the mutuel takings the past season and have reached an understanding with the management of the new track at Coeur dAIeuc. Idaho, by which a schedule of dates will be arranged so as to avoid contlict In the meetings of the various associations Interested. These associations, it is understood, have under consideration a proposition for the organization of a new governing body to be known as tha North Pacific Jockey Club. Heretofore they have raced under the jurisdiction of the Pacific Jockey Club. Next year it is probable that the minimum purge offering on tho British Columbia i tracks will be 00, which represents a substantial J increase. .
