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- . Expect Fairmount Purse Dispute Will Be Settled Both Parties Confident Week-End Meeting Will Resolve-Matter COT 1 iTNSVILLE, 111., May 16.— Both the Fairmount Park management and Joseph Kohout, vice-president of the Central division of the Horsemens Benevolent and Protective Association, voiced confidence today that the dispute over purse distribution for the 32-night meeting opening at the local course next Friday night would be settled at a meeting scheduled over the week-end. A committee of local horsemen, of which C. D. Boyd is chairman, and Bert Levy, Ted Wortman and V. V. Long are members, filed the customary seven-day notice in telegram form with the Illinois Racing Board and also to the Fairmount Park officials when negotiations which started yesterday and lasted until 2:00 A. M., broke down. , Ray Bennigsen, Fairmount official, who is representing the track in the negotiations, offered purse distribution of 4 per cent of the tracks share of the handle up to 50,000, and 00 more in purses for each 5,000 additional in- average track handle. Bennigsen said he was basing his offer on the settlement the HBPA made with Lincoln Fields, with the exception of 00 for every 5,000 over 50,000 instead* of ,000 forvevery 0,000 over 49,999 as is the case at Lincoln. The HBPA is insisting on a straight 4 per cent regardless of how high the handle might go. Kohout said late today that he and Robert O. Read, national president of the HBPA, would arrive here over the weekend, to participate in the negotiations with the Fairmount management. Since there is really little separating the two sides, -Kohout expressed confidence that the matter would be settled.
