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i I : THINK SUCCESS IS ASSUJRED PROMOTERS OF NEW ORLEANS RACING REVIVAL SATISFIED WITH PROGRESS MADE. Willingness of Owners of Racing Stables to Help Cause Along Produces Optimistic Feeling in the Crescent City as to Outcome of Venture. New Orleans, La., November 13. Seventy-live prominent horsemen having agreed to send stables here for the revival of racing, the success of the winter meeting scheduled to start January 1 under the auspices of the Business Mens Racing Association, composed of local business and professional men, is practically assured. Ever since the inception of the move, five months ago, when the state legislature refused to repeal the Locke law, an active campaign has been carried on by local business interests, whose claim is that the races will bring thousands of winter visitors here, with the result that much money will be spent and the merchants aided in this crisis of hard times. Judge Joseph A. Murphy, presiding judge and managing director of the association, is now in the east. He has met with great success in securing the promise of horsemen to come here. Fifty-two prominent owners who raced at Latonia and twenty-five of those who are now engaged iu the racing in Maryland, have already agreed to come here. It has been announced that the minimum purse value will be 00, with more valuable handicaps on special days, as well as special handicaps daily for purses of 00 or 1914.sh00. There will be six races each day and the program will be arranged to provide one two-year-old race each day. A. B. Dade will act as starter, Joseph McLennon as racing secretary, and Jack Campbell as clerk of the scales, while the other otkcials will be local men. to be chosen later by the directors of the racing association. In preparation for the meeting the Fair Grounds track, where the racing will take place, is being put in condition. AAhen automobile races wen; held there some years ago a heavy coating of oil was spread on top of the dirt. This has given a firm foundation and the sandy loam on top is being worked easily. As the track stands today it is lightning, fast, . . A novel scheme to finance the meeting Is being followed. After stock to the value of 00,000 has been disposed of, it is believed that there will l.e nearly 50,000 of cash in hand. Those who do not want to buy stock outright in the venture are purphnslpg -seaspn tickets. Already a total of 9.-000 has been secured in this manner by the men behind the movement. Tom Campbell, manager f the Tulauc and Crescent theatres, is one of the leaders in the movement to get subscribers, and is aided by J. Pearce, M. Michaelis. 1. B. Rennysou and many others. Northern horsemen are also taking stock in the association, which has announced that it will not countenance any violation of the states betting laws. The betting will be confined to individual wagers, which will not be interfered with. No bookmaking or sheet writing will be tolerated. Hundreds of persons gathered along Canal street today cheered fourteen thoroughbred race horses unloaded from the Louisville and Nashville railroad on the river front. As the horses pranced along Canal street they were met with loud exclamations of de-light and repeated handclapping. This was the first important consignment of horses to arrive for the New Orleans meeting. All of the horses came from Latonia. They were: For Fair, owned by G. M. .Miller: Just Red, Lady Rillle and Tempy Duncan, owned by George B. Moreland: Buhl AVelsh and a yearling colt owned by AA. II. Snearley: Stick Pin and Colfax, owned jointly by J. P. Jones and B. E. Chapman: Birka, Nellie C. and Requiram, owned by M. Lowenstein; Joe I., owned by Sam McClemand. and Kyrene and Caro Nome, owned by AA. A. AAcod. S. Hicks, an apprentice jockey under contract to Sam McClemand. and U. Walden, a free lance rider, came with the car..
