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CONCERNING CHICAGO RACING. Rumors are afloat predicting further racing here after the Hawthorne meeting lias run its appointed course of thirteen days. Nothing of the kind should or will take place. As an experiment the present meeting is and will be interesting to its finish, but its controlling force is incompetent and unequal to the task of restoring Chicago racing on an enduring foundation. Enough has been shown to demonstrate that Chicago is keen for clean racing, and will support it splendidly, when proffered on the basis of tnic sportsmanship and a real purpose to improve the breed of horses as a national necessity. On the whole, the Hawthorne meeting, so far, has been less good than Chicago deserves, principally because of management by those who were rot skilled in the handling of the goods to be sold. The racing .itself is being well managed, and the good material in contention is furnishing fine sport. The meeting has already shown the modern and miscellaneous crusader that racing is popular with the average Chicagoan, that a moderate term of the sport will not ruin the community, and that what betting there has been at the track has ruined nobody. It has been small in volume, strictly tin-public and without revenue to the race track. It can be stated, however, that there will be no extension of the present Chicago meeting of thirteen days, and that the Harlem track will not be used for racing this year.
