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CHICAGO AND ST LOU Joseph A Murphy Predicts Racing Racingfor for Both Cities Next Year To Take Personal Charge TORONTO Ont June C Joseph A Mur ¬ phy before leaving here announced that after the Erie meeting he would go to Chicago and take personal charge of the movement there to revive the American Derby and racing in Illinois He will also go over the St Louis situation which is rapidly assuming shape He confidently predicted that there would be racing both in St Louis and Chicago next year He will divide the time between his racing engagements at Devonshire Toledo Cleveland Thorncliffe and Bowie between the two cities Mr Murphy outlined his plans as follows follows1C 1C I succeed in reviving racing in Chicago and St Louis I am depending on the Thor oughbred Horsemens Association and the better class of horsemen and breeders to aid me in preventing what has happened at New Orleana I have egotism enough to believe that if they had seen that I was left alone at New Orleans the situation there would not be as it is Only clean racing can live liveThomas Thomas E Bourke who is looking after the Chicago situation is doing yeoman work We are not aiming at a flybynight meeting to grab a few dollars We are building for the life of this generation We are promised the active aid of some of the most prominent men and women of Chicago We are getting indorsements from civic and business organ ¬ izations and when we get ready to tie our threads together we will have one of the most powerful organizations Chicago has ever known knownFor For ten years I have been molding public opinion at St Louis It has reached the time to move The following editorial from the St Louis PostDispatch shows the trend of public thought SL Louis turned against race tracks when the race tracks here turned crooked and swindling gamblers mads the sport a gambling trap and a reproach to the sport and city Tho PostDispatch was the leader of the movement and organized the cam ¬ paign which put the crooked race tracks and wide open crooked gambling out of business We were and are now against crooked race tracks and race track crooks but we are not now and never have been against horse rac ¬ ing properly conducted by firstclass honest management on sound methods Depriving St Louis of a good race trad does not pre ¬ vent gambling in St Louis on horse races elsewhere Illegal gambling flourishes re ¬ gardless of the location or the character of race tracks If there must be gambling and there always will be better straight overhead gambling than crooked underground gam ¬ bling There has been a demand for a good track in St Louis which would satisfy home lovers of highclass sport and attract visitors from everywhere and several movements to obtain suitable regulatory laws and establish a good race track but it has never taken effective form It is high time to move de ¬ terminedly and successfully Lets have a good track and a big annual meeting in SL Louis
