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Molter Says Hell Race Horses If Owners Want Him to Do So HOLLYWOOD PARK, Inglewood, Calif., May 6. — Willie Molter, trainer for 15 different owners, including the strings of Louis B. Mayer, Andrew J. Crevolin and the Arcadia Stable, and a member of the Horsemens Benevolent and Protective Associations board of directors in California, today was quoted as saying: "If the owners for whom I train want me to race their horses. I will race them." Molter was, at first, evasive and said he didnt wish to say anthing because he had been misquoted so many times. When assured he would be accurately quoted, he relaxed, smiled and uttered the above statement, adding, "Im just a working stiff. When Molter was asked if any of his employers had requested him to race, he said he had not talked to the owners, that he had asked the track to do that. Both Molter and Ralph West, another trainer and another member of the California divisions board of directors, emphatically denied having sent or having signed a telegram which they purportedly had sent, and which was read before the HBPA meeting held at Tanforan last Men- day night, in which they supposedly backed the HBPA demands of 40 per cent of the tracks share of the mutuel take and breakage. Both disclaimed any knowledge of the telegram. When West was asked how he stood on the purse problem, he said he "still felt the same" as he did at the HBPAs board of directors meeting held last week at owner E. C. Smiths home in San Mateo. He refused to elaborate on what that feeling was and is. However, earlier, when asked if he intended racing his horses at Hollywood Park, West answered: "The horses Ive sent to Hollywood are here to race. I have given my word that they will race even though my position as a member of the HBPAs board of directors* might prevent me from training them." Allen Drumheller, veteran trainer and also a member of the HBPA board of directors, when asked if he intended to race, said: "I have on three occasions been asked by officials of Hollywood Park if I was satisfied with the conditions and purses offered and each time I told them that I was satisfied."
