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BROWN WOULD DIVIDE DATES. New Orleans, La.. August 30.- "I am willing to make a fair arrangement of dates and can make arrangements for the transfer of City Park back to the Business Mens Racing Association so as to insure it against opposition, if it desires it. I do not want to harm racing in New Orleans or elsewhere. Naturally I want to protect my interests. I tried to make an agreement between the Business Mens Racing Association and the Havana track, whereby my interests could be protected. My proposition, was turned down." So reads a statement received froTn II. I. Brown by wire. Brown is 011 his way here to make arrangements concerning the City Park track with Gardner and Woodring, its former owners. Ho insists that it was not lie who bought the City Park race track. "City Park track was purchased by a personal friend of mine for racing purposes, and not with the object of harming racing in New Orleans," said Browns telegram. Local newspapers unfriendly to the new governor and opposed to Mayor Behrman have started a tirade against the action of Brown in securing City Park race track, charging that "politicians and grafters" will have charge of all of the jobs at the course. Browns friends say that when he arrives he will try to bring about peace because he does not want another war such as existed in the old Cella-Corri-gan days, when City Park and Fair Grounds ran with free gates.
