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EARLY ACTION ON WASHINGTON BILL Seattle Men Planning to Build Xarge Track in Event of Passage of Measure. SEATTLE. Wash., February 25. The .Washington State Racing Commission act, now before the state legislature, which is being fathered by Representative Robert Grass of King County, has received wide publicity throughout the press of America, and the eves of the turf world are watching the developments at Olvmpia. The bill is now in the public morals committee, and the various interests throughout the state have asked for an early report from the committee. In anticipation of the bill becoming a law in this state a tract of 200 acres of land close to Seattle has been selected, and a modern race course is planned by Seattle men, Including Harry Treat, R. L. Heller and others, and fanners and breeders of western Washington, incorporating under the title of the King County Breeders Association. An annual season of twenty-five days racing will be asked by the organization of the Washington State Racing Commission. Every association planning races must submit its roster of stockholders and directors to the State Commission under the proposed law, and all interests must be owned and controlled by residents of the State of Washington. An amendment which prohibits bookmaking and pool selling will be offered bv Representative Grass, and petitions from King, Pierce, Spokane, Walla Walla, Whitman, Columbia, Skagit and other smaller counties have been sent to Olympia, but no lobby has been maintained in Olynipia In favor of the measure; but former Speaker of the House Guy E. Kelly of Tacoma Will appear before the public morals committee to represent all interests of the state and ask for a favorable recommendation. W. C. Baldwin, president of the Tacoma Automobile Speedway Association, states that an organization composed of many Pierce County prominent citizens will build u mile dirt course inside of the speedwav and apply to the State Commission .for an annual period of fifteen days racing each year. W. L. Tennaut, secretary of the Spokane Interstate Fair Association, says they will ask for a like number of days, while Spokane, Tierce and King Countv will hold one week of harness racing annuallv, and annual games of polo with all teams from the Pacific northwest contesting are planned.
