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CHANGE FRISCO RACE DATES? Bay Meadows and Tanforan May Operate One Meeting Yearly. Discussing Alternate Spring and Fall Sessions Each Season Drop Plan of Four Meetings Annually. LOS ANGELES, Calif., Sept. 30. Talk of a change in the racing schedule for Bay Meadows and Tanforan has been going on for some time among the managements and stockholders of those two tracks and members of the California Horse Racing Board. The proposal is that the four meetings a year in the San Francisco sector be reduced to two each year, one track operating fifty days in the spring and the other the same length of time in the fall, alternating the seasons. William P. Kyne, of Bay Meadows, has told members of the racing board that he is in favor of one meeting a year for each track as an economy measure. The racing board today stated that the proposal had been under discussion for some time, but that no official action had as yet been taken. Chairman Carleton Burke was absent, but secretary Buchanan intimated that a change in the racing dates for this fall seemed unlikely. AGREEMENT PROBABLE. News dispatches from San Francisco indicated the probability of an agreement between the two tracks concerned to a change effective next year and with the tracks requesting it the concensus of opinion was that the racing board probably would look with favor on granting each track dates for fifty consecutive days of racing with the tracks alternating as to spring and fall sessions. Likewise there is not much to choose between the class of horses available for the two seasons. In the spring some eastern stables stay in California after Santa Anita until April or May, while in the fall some stables ship west early for the San Francisco meetings. Perhaps the spring meetings had slightly better horses, in recent years, but now that Hollywood Park has come into the picture, enticing more and better horses to remain on the coast the year around there seems to be even less of a chance for variation between the class of horses available for the spring and fall seasons at the two northern tracks. Alternating the meetings would give each track an even break anyway.
