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RACING WITHIN THE LAW Albert Sabath and Judge Murphy Confer on Legal Phase of Sport in Chicago. NEW ORLEANS, La., Feb. 25. Albert Sabath, attorney for the Chicago Business Mens Racing Association, left on the Panama Limited for Chicago yesterday, following a series of conferences with Joseph A. Murphy on the legal phase of the revival of racing in Chicago. Both agree that this is the crux of the situation and both arc sanguine that racing can be successfully conducted within the present statutes. The question of what constitutes an individual bet on a horse race has never been passed on by a court of record in Illinois. Judge Murphy has also received a letter from his attorneys at St. Louis that the Huber case, which will decide the immediate j future of racing in Missouri, will be arranged in section two of the Supreme Court cn April 10. Judge Murphy will leave here March IS for Chicago, stopping for a day at St. Louis. When he reaches Chicago he and Charles T. Essex, the resident manager, will make a definite announcement in regard to the summer meeting at Hawthorne. It has not been determined whether there will be one or two meetings, but every effort, will be made to avoid conflict with Kentucky and other western tracks.
