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POST TIME BY CLEM. What a change for the better has become the general publics attitude toward racing. The Chamber of Commerce of Miami helped immeasurably toward making possible a race meeting in the Florida resort. And at the conclusion of the meeting this civic body publicly congratulated itself on having gotten behind the original movement for a race meeting in Miami and also expressed its appreciation of the excellent conduct of the meeting. And now, out In Utah, we read of the Ogden Chamber of Commerce putting itself on record as enthusiastically in favor of a race meeting for that city in 1926. The track there cannot be put in shape before that time. It seems to us that Joseph A. Murphy deserves the lions share of the credit for this new attitude of business men toward racing. Mr. Murphy learned long ago that successful race meetings can be given only with the approval and co-operation of the substantial citizens of any community. He originated the plan that brought racing back to New Orleans. His formation in the Crescent City of the Business Mens Uicing Association made possible the revival of winter racing in New Orleans. He has courageously and persistently followed the same plan in at-te-mpting to revive the sport in Missouri. Cooperation of business men made possible the Chicago revival. Organization of business mens racing associations has not been necessary in Maryland and Kentucky, because the men identified with racing in those states saw in time that the sport must be conducted along lines that the public not only would tolerate, but would approve. Today there is little in the conduct of racing in either of those states that is other than even an idealist would have it. I The associations themselves recognize that . there is room for improvements in many I angles of the sport and are constantly striving to bring about betterment of those phases. But when one looks back to the hectic days I of twenty and thirty years ago, when the I I opening of most every season was featured with threatened "turf wars," he may well smile with satisfaction when he reads of the leading civic organizations of communities openly espousing the holding of properly conducted race meetings. If ever the right man or group of men are able to swing Los Angeles and San Fran-cisc -o commercial bodies over to the side of racing, there will be a resumption of the sport in that grand state. But hardly before.
