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ASKS JOCKEY CLUB FOR AID President Dymond Requests the Eastern Ruling Body to Govern Fair Grounds Racing. NEW YORK. N. Y., September 4. The Jockey Club will be asked to supervise racing at the New Orleans Fair Grounds during the coming winter. President John Dymond l of the Business Mens Racing Association announced at Belmont Park today. Mr. Dymond is visiting the New York tracks to study the conduct of the sport here. As a part of his general plan for improving racing conditions at the southern track, Mr. Dymond has determined to request the Jockey Club to supervise the sport there. This, if granted, would be a radical departure from the Jockey Club policy, which has been to confine its supervisory and appellate jurisdiction to eastern tracks. "In order to free Louisiana racing from further criticism of the sort to which it has been subject, we will make application to the Jockey Club for its supervision over the coming New Orleans Fair Grounds racing, which begins the first Monday of January," Mr. Dymond said. "If we are able to interest the Jockey Club, so that it will lend us a helping hand in the solution of our problems I think we will have taken a great step forward and one that will benefit racing generally. I shall make formal application to the Jockey Club on my return to New Orleans." Mr. Dymond, though he has been a Lou-siana resident for years, is a native New Yorker. He was born at 143 East Eighteenth Street. -
