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INCREASE IN PURSES AT NEW ORLEANS Daily Offerings at Fair Grounds for Remaining Days of Meeting Considerably Auguinented. XKW ORLEANS, La., February 1.". During the remaining fourteen days of the Fair Grounds winter meeting the horsemen will race for bigger purses than ever have been hung up by any winter race track, and these daily offerings will comparu favorably with many courses in the east where racing is conducted during the summer months. The Business Mens Racing Association, which conducts the sport at the Fair Grounds, announced early liist week that beginning next Monday there would be an addition of S500 to the daily purse distribution. This will make the daily total ,800 and on Saturdays, when a ,500 stake is down for decision, it will reach ,300. The association, however, did not make any move looking toward an increase in the purse value antiV the Thoroughbred Horsemens Association had interested itself in the matter. Last Monday a committee of members of the organization, composed of Ham Keene, S. A. Clopton. Jim Arthur, J. 0. Fer-riss and J. S. Wallace waited upon the management with the request that the purse values lie raised. The decision to do so followed closely upon the delegations visit. Now that a defiuite announcement regarding tiie opening date of the Hot Springs meeting has been made, horsemen are arranging their plans for the early sprang campaign. Quite a large number of the smaller jtablcs will remain here to take part in the ten days meeting at Jefferson. Park, which opens at the conclusion of the Fair Grounds meeting. The larger establishments, however, will sidestep Jefferson, and from here will ship their strings to Oak-lawn Park to rest their horses for the season that is advertised to open March 15. According to present plans Jefferson and Oaklawn will conflict for only one day. The rather late opening at Oaklawn this year will, it is believed, work to the detriment of that meeting, inasmuch as a large number of stables will be leaving for Howie shortly after the Oaklawn meet-, ing opens in order to get to the Maryland track in" time for the opening there April 1. Quite a number will also be pulling up stakes for Lexington about that time. For ihe last week of the Fair Grounds meeting seiretary Joseph McLennan is arranging a race in which the best two-year-olds shown here to date Mill contest. The race will be named the New Orleans Juvenile Champion Purse, valued at .,000, and will take the place of the usual purse of that value given each week for the more mature horses. The distance will be a half mile, and incidentally Mr, MeLennan has arranged for all of the two-year-old races during the last eight days of the meeting to be at this distance. Such juveniles as Red Red Rose. Miss Jemima, Hidden Ship, Runnan. Pueblo, Ziziz, Emma Weller, Pop Lyes and Friz, with several other reported good ones which have not been seen under colors, will no doubt prove a big drawing card, and the con-lost us planned . would serve to bettle the two-year-old supremacy here.
