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MORE CANADIAN TRANSFERS COMING. The following dispatch from Montreal was published in the Toronto Globe of Tuesday: "The success of other local promoters in breaking into the Windsor field has been followed by persistent reports that two Montreal racing enterprises are to be operated in Ontario next season. It is said that the franchise of Kenipton course at Lnprnrie. the latest and least, substantial of the Montreal concerns, and of Maisonncuve, wiiose future is threatened by Incoming municipal track, are to be removed to Toronto and Hamilton, respectively. "It is declared that in both places local backing is guaranteed, and the property locations are already practically provided. Neither has been much of a success here, and the two French-Canadian handbook men who financed the Kenipton meeting here are said to have had a narrow escape from going broke over it. The syndicate ring they operated was none too well patronized, and they were in financial straits at the end of the first five days out of the si:: which constituted the meeting. On the sixth, however, all the good things that the public backed were beaten, and the syndicate more than recouped its losses. "It is thought that, with cue-third of the race tracks in Canada located in and about Montreal, the Ontario field offers more advantages to the promoters, and no difficulty is anticipated iu securing Ontario licenses once the tracks are built. "The Mount Royal people who have established Devonshire Iark at Windsor are said to intend following their procedure here to get good attendance at their new track. At Mount Royal they had 4,010 dead-head badges for the meeting, 1,500 free badges for ladies, and 350 press badges, and it is stated that the other promoters attributed to this their statement of the need of reducing the number of local tracks, as a result of which comes the report concerning Kenipton and Maison-neuve."
