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MORE FRICTION AT NEW ORLEANS. Now Orleans, La.. August 11. Announcement of forty days of racing over the City Park track, beginning January 1 and lasting until Mardi Gras, which followed a statement from the Business Mens Racing Association that the sport Would be indulged in at the Fair Grounds oval for fifty-seven d:tys, starting December 15 and closing Mardi Gras. threatens to reopen the local fight that several years ago forced through the Locke law. Miss Jean Gordon, leader in the ranks of racing opponents, declared that if the city would stand for two tracks here the. coming season the bars might as well be let down on everything. Allegations that the refusal of the Business Mens Racing Association to purchase the City Park track for 50,000 resulted in the announcement that a race meeting would be conducted there, were the subject of much comment among those interested in racing. Miss Jean Gordon, who lias vigorously opposed racing in New Orleans, and who acquired stock in the Business Mens Racing Association last year and : vainly; endeavored to throw it in the hands of a receiver, said she knew nothing about the new company except that Messrs. Gardner and Wood-ring wore the backers of the defeated bill introduced at. the last session of the General Assembly ,to establish a racing commission. .She- expressed gratification at the news that these men were to attempt to open another race track.
