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_ HBPA Votes to Hold Firm In Hollywood Park Dispute Also State They Wont Race at Meet if Discrimination Is Shown TANFORAN, San Bruno, Calif., May 5.— The purse dispute between the Horsemens Benevolent and Protective Association and the Hollywood Turf Club remained unsettled today following a meeting of the horsemen in the Tanforan clubhouse last night. In a general meeting of members of the HBPA they voted once again to stand by their demand for 40 per cent of Hollywood Parks share of the pari-mutuel handle during the meeting which gets under way at the Inglewood track next Tuesday. The horsemen also voted that regardless of the outcome of the purse dispute they would not race at Hollywood Park if any discriminatory action is taken against a member of the organization. This resolution was taken in support of Charles T. Leavitt, HBPA vice-president, who had Continued on Page Forty Si* HBPA Votes to Hold Firm In Hollywood Park Dispute Also State They Wont Race at Meet if Discrimination Is Shown Continued from Pag* One been notified to vacate the Hollywood stalls he earlier had been allotted. Leavitt presided at Monday nights meeting which was attended by about 200 horsemen. The groups spokesman was C. Ray Robinson. Robert O. Read, national president of the HBPA, was to have attended the meeting, but he sent a message from Columbus that due to illness in his family he was unable to fly out for the session. He said that he would be in California Thursday to assist the horsemen in their hassle with Hollywood Park. Robinson said that Hollywoods program providing for ,600,000 in purses, the greatest ever offered during a single meeting, was considerably short of the 40 per cent the horsemen want and he also said that the Murphy plan was inadequate. The Murphy plan, devised by racing board chairman Dwight Murphy, calls for a purse distribution of 4 per cent of the first 0,-000,000 of handle, 3 per cent of the second 0,000,000 and 2.7 per cent of all money wagered above that amount. Meanwhile a number of horses, either owned or trained by HBPA members, have left here for Hollywood Park. Trainers Ralph West, Willie Molter, R. H. McDaniel and Allen Drumheller, are among those who have divisions of their stable at the Inglewood track.
