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POPULARITY OF RACING IN AUSTRALIA San Francisco Cal July 19 The tremendous jKipularity of racing in the Antipodes is attested afresh by every traveler returning from Englands great island jwissession A prominent official who landed here last week declared lie had never neverearned earned a sport could attract anything like the ormous crowds which day after day pushed through the gates of Australian tracks tracksPacked Packed grandstands and overflowing infields are the rule and owing to the stability of the climate it is unusual for a days program to be marred by rain The percentage of racegoers is so great that if the same relative proportion existed in this country we would havo a ereiwd of nearly a million people trying to gain admittance into an enclosure the size of an average track trackIn In addition to the many IWMiefits derived by the country from so generedis a support of racing large sums lav IH II realized by the government through taritlon at a time when every possible dollar is needed to elefeut the Hun
