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RACING REVIVAL IN SOUTH -: 4. DETERMINED EFFORTS TO BE MADE FOR LEGISLATION * + T IN SEVERAL STATES. Arkansas and Tennessee Legislatures to Be Asked J to Enact Measuics Looking to a Restoration si, of the Sport This Winter. ! Memphis, Toon., January •*.. — Efforts to have rue- ll I uk i -v i v«ti iu ihi- south are mere determined ;ii V present lliiiii ever and prospects for Uie return ; In r s|K rt are bettei tints :ii anytime -im-c ii was legis- • Cited against. I ..i -t week hi plans take shape !• e have the -t ■ « t revived on .-n lea-i fwo Hacks, here in and at I lot Spring**, Aik. ew Orleans peopii "ill ilso make another effort t" revive the sport and it results are obtained in Tennessee and Arkansas, tin- l."l:i- ;im;i |iei plc Will -non follow. Tin- OUtlouk tti regarded with optiurisni. To Insure racing for Hot ! or Springs .ni.l Memphis ii i- necessary ouh t • past a bill thrmigh the Arkansas legislature. The Memphis enthusiasts plan to build ■ track fast across the - M - issippi river, in Arkansas. Such ■ hill i- is s in the hands of in able legislator from Arkansas and iiisuj have been pledged to rote for It. Added !•■ this is Hi, ract that Governor Robinson ban Just taken oaVc. was elected on ■ liberal platform and ii is believed that he "ill favor a rac- ing bill. The prosecuting attorney and sheriff f J itarland county, in which 1 i -• i Springs i- located, were also elected on a liberal platform and it is -!: • . that thej are In favor c : an m M n town; 1 1-«i Springs. iii -t famous health resort in Ann lira lias not prospered since the abolition of racing there. The progressive citizen- .if Arkansas are thoroughly awake to the realization iliat their health resort, of the best ..,• Hi. states assets. will go backward some sort of lively sport f»n the auiuscuieul »1 visitors Is not installed. With a racist: las in Arkansas. Memphis eiituus , could attend races just across the river. This however does not seem to satisfy-, and A. I.. Parker. president of lie Tri State Fair Associaton, is be Ii i M.l i iri! i.. legalise racing. which will lie inn-., diieed in the Teunessoe legislature at ii- January session hv a menibei of the shciin C itj delegation. B i racing program Parker hopes i • recoup the - i bwk nl.hh ...,■ Tri -State Fair Association baa mi- ■ .i n i in ii each year in its annual exhibitions given hen The fair promoters lose from ." . ** to o,0iXi each V i and a racing law would give them a program in J . ". ■ rail months which would pat an end to this loss. Provision for the pari mntuel gystesn of betl ag. xcich i In- backers of the bill hope ! • revive with the -i ii Itself. Is expected dissipate much of Hie op 1-.I-. ii.. ii thai would arise should an attempt in- made I I., i . store bookatakitui
