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"REFORMERS" TO TRY AGAIN Same CMd Legislation Against Racing Is to Be Sought When Congress tyeets. WASHINGTON, D. 0., November 28. A well-organized movement, to prevent horse racing, backed iby.niuch the fame elements which put national pro-, hibitioii over, lias take.n definite form here and will result la a drive5 in "the next session of Congress for legislation to make it effective. The; so-called "reform forces," led by the Board of Prohibition, Temperance and Public Morals of the iMethojllst Episcopal Church South, will demand passage if a bUl toprevent interstate transmission of any information relative to race tracks, betting 6d.ils," turi records and other lata that long ago have .gone along with Hie "sport. Senator Sterling South Dakota. Republican, and Representative Simms Terinessee,..Democrat, arc preparing to introduce tlio bills, which, haye been "drafted" by Deets Pickett, secretary of the board. Traders in the .anti -.racing movement have no ob-jct.ibn, .they spy, to racing if no bets are placed on tlleir sliced. By the proposed legislation outlined in the Simms-Sterliiig measures of 1920, which fiiiled, newspapers would be forbidden to publisli race track news, which, the reform forces insist, would be -entirely constitutional. .Jt is contended that the government has entire control over the" mails and pver. inter-: state commerce uuder the commerce clause of the Constitution.
