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JUDGES STAND By Charles Hatton Swopean Views on Racing Industry Twilight Tear and a Family Affair Dot 01 Debbir Aids War Relief ReliefSabs Sabs HalfSister Is Game Chick NEW YORK N Y May 29 Herbert Bayard Swope who is one of the most erudite and stimulating conversa ¬ tionalists we know today made a few ran iom observations about racing All were in the perceptive Swopean vein As a sample he touched on its super ¬ vision and remarked that Probably it will be a billiondollar busi ¬ ness this year con ¬ struing this to be a tacit public testimonial that it is a sanitary sport He does not re ¬ gard racings present vogue as some hot ¬ house growth that will wither after the War but says that on the contrary it reflects a steadily increasing popularity which had its beginning before Pearl Harbor He wishes that when threeor fourmilliondollar days are chronicled in the public prints the editors would explain this does not mean either that 3000000 was taken to the race track to wager or that it was taken out of circulation The public retains all but 10 per cent and the break ¬ age the TCA chairman reflected con ¬ tinuing But many of the public seem vague on that point and I believe that when the total wagered is mentioned reference ought to be made also to the sum returned to the public He still resents the distribution of the breakage by the Swope is aware of the trend to sympathize with periodic efforts to levy a federal tax of 5 per cent on race track wagering but insists ac ¬ curately such a take would be a kind of infringement on the states since they and not the Federal Govern ¬ ment legalize racing By the same token he takes a dun view of the proposition of making the govern ¬ ment a partner in racing It does nothing for racing Probably the tax would defeat its own purpose for as Sen Bennett Clark has said if a 20 per cent take were deducted the bookies who are not taxed could successfully underbid tracks for business The Coaching Club Oaks left every one singing Twilight Tears praises and re ¬ vived the symposium on the relative merits of that frontrunning filly and her stretch running stablemate Pensive Ben Jones their trainer remains discreetly impartial Twilight Tear met inferior rivals in the Coaching Club transforming it into an ex ¬ hibition immediately after the gate was sprung That was the seventh stiaight suc ¬ cess for Bull Leas lovely daughter who has only been beaten once thus far this year Jones hopefully expects Miss Keeneland to take up where Twilight Tear leaves off at Chicago this summer Now that Twilight Tear has clearly established her superiority to the eastern fillies racegoers are eager to note how she fares competing against two other daughters of Bull Lea in the middle west Harriet Sue and Durazna They defeated one another last season seasonMemorial Memorial Day racing will be notable mainly for its turnstile and tote statistics There is little doubt that 4000000 will be handled at Belmont Park if it has adequate facilities and there is something dis ¬ tinctly fitting and proper about des ¬ ignating it as a War Relief Day The Suburban is the traditional piece de resistance on the holiday card at the Westchester Racing Associations equine Olympus It contains unusual academic interest this year because of Devil Divers at ¬ tempt to emulate Whisk Broom II and sweep through the Metropolitan Suburban and Brooklyn He already lias placed the Toboggan and Metro ¬ politan to his account Last year he captured both these events and the Brooklyn but was beaten in the SuburbanAlsab Suburban Alsab will be a conspicious absentee from the Suburban and perhaps all other stakes engagements until autumn When his gam6 leg has set he may further enhance his performance record before entering the stud Among his admirers is Mrs Dodge Sloane who has an interest in his sire Good Goods Tom Piatt incidentally re ¬ ports the arrival recently of a new sister to Alsab at his Blue Grass Farm Great is a term we use parsimoniously and seldom have occasion to employ but that is the word for the Sab
