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TO ATTACK MARYLAND RACING. Baltimore, SId., December 5. A stiff fight is to be made at the next meeting of the legislature to abolish the sport of racing in this state. Dr. J. SL T. Finney, John T. Stone, Dr. Howard A. Kelly, Eugene Levering and others are named as the principals behind the new movement. A meeting is to be held shortly to outline the campaign and enlist a large working body to wage war against the race tracks. The recent move for the establishment, of a new track at Bengies, in Baltimore County, is responsible for the sudden determination of the anti-racing people to inaugurate another campaign. It was pointed out that the new track will be not merely to supplant another track, but means really an additional racing plant, Us it is to be operated under the charter of a long defunct "driving club." The addition of twenty or twenty-five extra days to the states racing periods, bringing the total to practically half a year of racing, lias struck the antis as "much too much." The commercial phase of the new track projects is too prominently important to be disregarded. There is no doubt that the state could stand a plant really fostering the "breeding of thoroughbreds," but evidently the Bengies outfit is not to be the "salvation of the sport of kings." It is admitted by the men behind the new move to drive racing from the state, that nothing can be done bsfore the next legislature meets. They say that legislative annulment of the various track charters is the only remedy.
