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Show FANATICS ARE SAID TO BE AGITATORS Tribune Special Sporting Service. ' WASHINGTON. D. C, April -I. "The whole trouble over racing here has been caused by the handbooks," said a business man. "They becamo so numerous tlnif. it. rcnllv ttob n rnrr haf state of affairs. Clerlts and bo3's were piking around and neglecting their work until the business men of the city got disgusted with it all. Tho races might run hero for a hundred years dud the Washigton people would never object; ob-ject; in fact, the best people go to tho track and like the spring and fall meetings. meet-ings. The fanatics and reformers havo seized upon tho occasion to make a tight on racing. "As between Congress and the racing rac-ing peoplo the majority of the busineps pcoplo hero would wolcomc tho latter. A lot of us are glad enough when Congress Con-gress is gone, for there is never an3' telling what those mon from other States, who have nothing to loso here and show neither regard for nor in- j tere3t in tho Washingtonians, wjll do in the way of iujury. Because their count in their own State has voted prohibition, for instance, they would just as son as not mnko it eohi3Cc ingtoii. All they want is to cot wiarl another term, and so we have tho tal of the country ruled bv men toIia Pl'i if foreign to it and all its IntcrS r H M The spriug meeting at Bcniii'nn8 paps off without any interruption of iv&S"' betting. 1 lW |