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Conclude Testimony On Puente Petition PetitionCalifornia California Racing Board Takes Matter Under Advisement AdvisementLOS LOS ANGELES Calif June 20 The California Horse Racing Board today took under advisement the Southern California Jockey Clubs petition for a determination in connection with a site for a proposed race track at Puente and it was indicated that a decision will not be reached until members have had an opportunity to make a complete study of a transcript of a day and a half of testimony The entire hear ¬ ing was conducted under protest in that counsel for the Southern California Jockey Club had sought unsuccessfully to have racing board member Charles E Cooper disqualified to sit in judgement of the petition on the grounds that he allegedly was prejudiced against the project projectThis This mornings session was brief The board heard arguments pro and con on the advisability of determining the Puente site a suitable place to construct a race track and the hearing was adjourned before noon noonBoth Both the War Manpower Commission and the War Production Board went on record as opposing the proposed Puente track at yesterday afternoons session sessionThomas Thomas Campbell area director for Los Angeles and Orange counties of the War Manpower Commission testified and op ¬ posed not only the Puente promotion but also resumption of racing at tracks already established during the current critical period periodCarleton Carleton Burke for Santa Anita and Jack MacKenzie testifying for Hollywood Park stated their objections to the pro ¬ posed Puente track Burke claimed the daily operating cost of the Arcadia track was 65000 while MacKenzie gave 57000 as the Inglewood tracks figure Both stated that another track in the Southland area would mean a curtailment of their dates and this would engender a curtail ¬ ment of their purse and stakes distribution with a resultant absence of name horses and lowering of the quality of sport of ¬ fered feredWilliam William P Kyne who announced Satur ¬ day that he would request a change in fall dates from September 30 to December 9 instead of November 4 to December 16 was present at yesterdays meeting and re ¬ ported that he would withhold for 30 days the making of a request for revision of the Bay Meadows tracks dates We wish to cooperate 100 per cent with southern Californias eff prt to get going Kyne said but if it develops that neither Del Mar nor Hollywood Park can race this summer or fall Bay Meadows will ask for an earlier starting date
