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, FAVOR FLORIDA MEASURE TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 18— Following appeals by representatives of Tropical Park in Dade County, a house committee on public amusements yesterday reported favorably on a bill to prevent concurrent horse racing dates for two tracks in the same county. Provisions of the bill do not apply to dog tracks if two or more in any county agree among themselves on concurrent dates. Horse tracks are compelled to divide the 100 days of racing allowed in the present law equally and to alternate year by year. The committee instructed chairman Lewis to ask the house to make the bill a special and continuous order. Dan Chappell, secretary-treasurer of Tropical Park, James Donn, and John Norman, Miami business men, spoke for the bin. There were no representatives at the hearing for Hialeah Park. A substitute bill that does not embody the date allocation feature has been prepared by Smith of Clay County, a member of the committee for introduction in event that the other bill does not pass. «
