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SEE NEW JERSEY MAJORITY V Pari-Mutuel Plurality Still Placed M High by Observers. Republicans and Democrats Alike Working ! o for Success of Measure — Three New Tracks Are Possible. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 14— The tremendous turnout Mayor Frank Hague addressed in Journal Square, New Jersey, last ■ V week might appear to the metropolitan area i a at large as merely another case of the boss i ij cracking the whip. On this occasion New t Jerseys right to pass a pari-mutuel law on i G June 20 was the subject. Hague is defi- - E nitely in favor of it and he will come out of I f Hudson County with at least a 100,000 ma- - a jority for the amendment, which would give 5 |] Jersey its first racing with legalized betting r he h in forty years. C That event in Haguetown might not mean i b so much if it were not for the fact that t a at something of that order is going on all 1 through the state, only in a minor key. C Democrats and Republicans "have been l a given the word" and house-by-house can- - q vasses in favor of the racing bill are being I v made methodically, to the end that an old 1 y sport and industry will return to one of the 2 c original thirteen states and that the thor- - v oughbrcds will race on at least three tracks 3 t next season — newly constructed and up-to- - a date plants that might even put Hiaelah i t Park and Santa Anita in the background for f i sheer beauty. f Tn recent weeks the writer has toured the e state, sounding public opinion in all groups. i- | The conclusion must be drawn that the anti-1 -1 f racing contingent has a whale of a fight on I s its hands a week from next Tuesday, and I I a a that the pro-racing front will win by at least t t 50,000 votes. Horsemen in the state are • anxious to do their racing in New Jersey f for years to come and they are going to be J very firm in the matter of having their sport 1 ■ A-l from the start. "SELL NEW JERSEY." I c Amory Haskell, who owns a New York * radio station and is chairman of the New I Z Jersey council to "sell New Jersey"— and who owns a hundred horses also — expressed , c the opinion of leading horsemen on the subject. i- "With the passage of the amendment," he said, "New Jersey gets legalized betting. From that moment on its up to the legislature and the governor to pass rules of racing g that will place and keep the sport on ahigh h I plane. The Racing Amendment Association n has held many conferences on the subject, L and we feel certain that the officials in n Trenton will co-operate with well known n horsemen in order to write rules consistent tt with the best in American racing and particularly p. with those of The Jockey Club of ,f New York. "As to the construction of tracks, the e group around Red Bank, provided it is given n a license, will have an ideal one. The Monmouth * County group has held several conferences 1_ with William duPont, Jr., owner j* of Delaware Park, and they feel his help will 11 be invaluable in the building of a track and d stands that will make seeing a race from n any point easy." On the subject of breeding at New Jersey y farms, with the passage of the amendment, Haskell said: "There isnt a doubt in my y mind that breeding will increase at least 300 0 per cent within twelve months after racing g returns to the state. There are several large ;e breeders here now and theyll expand their ir activities. And it is only natural to assume ie that others interested in thoroughbreds will 11 purchase farms in Jersey. The stock is there :e and the room is available." VAUGHAN EAGER. William W. Vaughan, who has a string * of eleven horses at Delaware Park in Roy *y Roberts care, is eager for the return of racing C" to his native state. Owner of a seat on ,n the New York Stock Exchange for more re than thirty years, Vaughans greatest pleasure S- is derived from his week-ends with his is stable. "Im doing everything within my power to to help the amendment," said Vaughan. "I like te to race my horses at Maryland and Delaware a- tracks and would continue to do so 30 when Jersey gets racing again. But it will ill be more convenient to van horses a few ™ miles and less costly, too, in New Jersey than traveling distances. After all Im not J* as young as I once was he is 67, and Id like to spend more time at home." Vaughan m has a 150-acre farm near Red Bank. Will H. Cane, whose runners are at Suffolk J" Downs and his trotters at Goshen getting 7 ready for the Grand Circuit, returned ;d to his New Jersey home from Florida. He le accompanied his wife, who has been ill. Cane ae will immediately get into the fight to pass ss the pari-mutuel amendment because his lls chief interest these days is horses. Cane ne was chairman of the New Jersey racing ■* commission from 1933 until last December, when it passed out of existence. He probably ,D_ will be one of the three new commissioners is- appointed after the election.
