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Show BIG TRACK OWNERS WILL TAKE A CHANCE Tribune Special Sporting Service. NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 15. Tho principal prin-cipal owners of the big race tracks here aro figuring on a scheme to operate .i thlrty-llve-day meeting at each of tho trucks, beginning Janunry 1 and continuing con-tinuing for seventy days, each track alternating al-ternating as In the past. Congressman Rhlnock of Kentucky, ! who is largely lntcrtcd In the City ' Pnrk .track, was recently consulted about 1 the matter, and now the plane arc In . tentative shape. It Is proposed to cut down the purses, do away with, tho largn ' stakes and ask the merchants nnd hotel- ! keepers, who derive tho principal benefit , from the race meetings, to contribute to I the purse fund. , It is said that the response hnu been encouraging. No attempt will bo made ' to eithor test the new antl-bookmnklng ; law or violate It. It Is believed ' that If . a fairly good class of horses can be attracted at-tracted here the meeting can be successfully success-fully conducted. |