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TO RESTORE RACING IN MIDDLE WEST There is a healthy movement in Chicago and St. Louis to revive raciugin the right way. The Chicago men of high class who proposed in 1918 to establish a country club, with a racing and steeple-cbasiug course as a side issue, on the edge of the northern suburb of Evanston, are now said to be ready to take the project up again. Labor shortage and general unrest checked the scheme two years ago. The Chicago and Illinois authorities are not against the right kind of racing. Proprietary tracks will never be tolerated in or near Chicago again. There, is even a good chance in Illinois for a racing law with a racing commission and a law allowing mutuel betting on the Maryland and Kentucky plan. The Missouri movement is centered in St. Louis, where a strong preliminary organization has already been formed. From its members, when the time conies, will be organized the new St. Louis Jockey Club, which will control limited racing either under new legal permission or within the Missouri law as it now stands, only members being allowed to speculate among themselves on the oral plan, ag used, upon tie New York race cour6eel
