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FOR LIMITED CANADIAN RACING Friends of Snort Will Have Some Strong Arguments to Present at Ottawa Hearing;. Those who are anxious to have racing, even if in limited form, revived iu Canada during the coming summer will have some strong arguments to present should they voice their wishes at Ottawa, as indications are that they will in the near future. A potent argument is this — Canada is the only country in the empire where racing has been entirely suppressed, the edict which prohibits its organized betting amounting to suppression. Australia, and England itself, among others, have racing. In the British Isles the racing is in a modified form, which is all that Canadian track interests could and will ask. Racing in Canada suffered in its later days from many ills and evils, but none that could not be pruned. What is needed, apparently, is the ap-l«:intnient of an absolutely independent and disinterested commission to govern with an iron hand. Neither horse owners, breeders nor those interested in race tracks should Ik- members of such a commission, and the duties of the body might include: The granting of license for race meetings, with the iKiwer to refuse a license to any one track. Absolute control and supervision of the pari mu-tuels. Appointment of racing officials: Such a commission, if its functions were well exercised, could nlace the sport on the high level where it deserves to Ik-, and at once eliminate the numerous evils which have given the enemies of racing in Canada many weapons to wield against it. Kaiing is needed in Canada. The growing imiKir tame to this country of the breeding industry as an economic asset is too gnat to Ik- cut off so suddenly and coitmlctcly. but a revision of conditions is ncccssarv before the sport can be resumed even on a v.ar time basis.— Montreal Herald.
