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REJECT FAIR GROUNDS PURSE OFFER Thoroughbred Hcrse Association Members Believe No Purse Should Bo Less Than ,000. LATONIA, Ky., October 22. Members of the Thoroughbred Horse Association at a meeting held last night decided to reject the purse offering of the Bnsiness: Mens Racing Association, under whose auspices the Fair Grounds racing is conducted. The offer called for daily aggregate purse distribution of 1920.sh,100. The horsemen considered a daily distribution of ,500 about the proper thing for the Fair Grounds and forty of the members signed an agreement not to race at the Fair Grounds unless their proposal was met. At the same meeting the proiwslticn of the Jefferson Parish Fair Asoceiation for a daily distribution of ,100 was accepted. This offer applies to the first tliirty-twof days of the meeting, beginning Thanksgiving Day and ending December 31. A daily increase over this amount will be given in the event a second meeting is held at Jefferson Pitrk. Tiie Fair Grounds purse .distribution called for six races dally of 00 value each and a feature race of ,000 in addition to the 0,000 for each of the three stakes. The horsemen expressed belief that po purse should be of less than ,000 value and a daily feature of ,500, making it optional With the association to make any stake provisions. Manager R. S. Eddy and president B. C. McCIellan of the Fair Grounds stated that the ,100 offered was the most their association could give. Howard Oots, G. H. Keene and James Arthur constituted the committee of horsemen which had met with the racing managements. The committee recommended the acceptance of the Jef frson proposition, but urged the rejection of the Fair Grounds offer. The horsemen who signed not to race under the conditions offered are: Howard Oots, J. S. Ownbey, S. M. Henderson, J. C. Ferriss, M. Gold-blatt, S. K. Nichols, D. R. Bradley, Kay Spence, Max Hirsch, William Feuchter, T. C. McDowell, S. L. Lyne, C. H. Berryman, O. L. Foster, J. H. Tevis, R. L. Rogers, Joe Tigue, J. McPherson, E. C. Knebelkamp, M. Lowenstein, E. M. May, J. H. Heard, W. M. Cain, D. E. Stewart, W. H. Hall, H. Nensteter, Snyder and Holmes, C. C. Van Meter, A. Baker, G. Knebelkamp, Williams Bros., C. B. Head, G. H, Keene, J. J. Troxler, W. M. Shields. C. T. Worthingtoh, J. W. Johnson, J. Arthur and J. Phillips. Letters will be sent to all members of the Thoroughbred Horse Association urging them to stand by the resolution passed last night and requesting their signature to the agreement signed. A resolution was passed requesting the Kentucky Rncing Association to modify the order of the stewards in Kentucky refusing to accept the entries of horses belonging to George E. Phillips until the Canadian Racing Associations has given a definite reason for the suspension of Phillips. Secretary Thomas B. Cromwell reported that at the request of the board of directors of the Thoroughbred Horse Association he had just returned from New Orleans, where he went to sound sentiment concerning racing" during the Lenten season. He conferred witli Archbishop Shaw, who said that he personally was opposed to racing during Lent and would urge his parishioners to refrain from going to the races during that period. The association agreed that racing during Lent was a matter for the individual horseman to solve for himself. Vice-president Charles H. Berryman presided at the meeting. When informed of the action of the horsemen, neither manager Eddy nor president McCIellan cared to make a statement.
