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Show HOT SPIRNGS ANXIOUS FOR HORSE RACING Trlbuno Speclnl Sporting Service HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Doc. 5. It goes without saying that Hot Springs 13 anx-, anx-, I0U3 for racing. Until two years ngo thero was no legislation within tills stato I on race track affairs. Tho Amis bill, which sprung Into promlncnco an nenato bill No. 1 In tho last legislature, was tho offspring of local contentions rather than nny speclnl antagonism to tho racing game. No other city In the stato except Hot Springs Is directly Interested In racing, 'xcept ouch as prevails nt county falrx. Those do not attract bookmakers, therefore there-fore the scenes of tho county fair racing havo been as eventful as of yore, with no movement to Interfero with such prl-vato prl-vato speculation about tho grounds as reflect re-flect tho 'momory systom," which supplanted sup-planted open boolcmaklng on tbo closed tracks of tho west. Therefore. If racing Is re-established In this otnto It will bo through tho efforts of Hot Springs, where the famous Oak-lawn Oak-lawn track la situated and kept Intact, and where tho famous Essex park track may bo revived with but llttlo expenditure expendi-ture of monoy. ' Tho lnltlattvo for tho repeal of tho Amis bill will not como through racing Interests. Inter-ests. They have been kept In tho background. back-ground. Hot Springs business mon. after conceding that tho racing datCB of former seasons woro responsible for about 10 per cent of tho winter patronage, havo rnado their first movo to bring a return of tho lost patronage. Tho first stop was taken through tho Business Men's league, when Its president, presi-dent, C. N. Rlx. who Is nlso president of the Arkansas National bnnk, called a gen-oral gen-oral meeting of the leaguo for tho purposo of ascertaining public sentiment In regard to re-ostabllshmcnt of racing hero, Members Mem-bers were urged to attend ob a wholo, and othor business men woro Invited. Mayor .Todd Is an open advocate of tho return of racing. "Umbrella Bill" Mc-Gulgan, Mc-Gulgan, who was among tho small majority ma-jority against rnclng, Is now advocating a ehort mooting here. McGulgan amassed a fortuno on tho tracks with' Bannock-burn, Bannock-burn, Lady Inez, Ben Eder nnd othot notables, and retired. ITo stated that racing rac-ing was tho greatest sport known to the world, but that It was run dishonestly, through collusion of bookmaker and gam-bier gam-bier and track operator, and ho predicted that ten years henco It would bo again a popular sport In America, as In Franca and England, but only when given a long pauso of mifforlng from legislation. Now Ball Park. Trlbuno Special Sporting Sorvlco. PITTSBURG. Doc. 5. Work on tho new Pittsburg ball ground has been started, and Mr. Dreyfuss hopes to havo tho park ready for occupancy by tho Pirates by mldseason. Larney has not yet decided whether tho grandstand will bo of stool or concroto, but probably will havo tho base of tho stand of concroto and tho superstructure super-structure of steel. The stand will bo a trlplo dock and will havo a seating capacity ca-pacity of almost 30.000, being tho largest of Its kind In the country. Tho outfielders will have plenty of room In which to chaso fly balls, for tho distance dis-tance from homo plato to enter field Is COO feet. Dreyfuss will Install In tho park tho new lighting apparatus scheme In which Garry Herrmann Is Interested, not because he thinks It will be possible over to play championship games by artificial light, hut because the park will bo used at night for various entertainments. "Wo will have athlctlo meets on our now grounds and horse shows ob well," nays tho Plrato president. Wrostlor Makes Good. Tribune Special Sporting Service. NEW YORK, Dec. fi. YusHlft Mnhmout's decisive victory ovor Tom Jenkins will forco Frank Gotch to moot tho Turk in defenso of his championship title Had Mnhmout not woix so handily, or had ho defoRtod a man of less cnllber than Jenkins, Jenk-ins, Gotch might havo evaded tho matqh on tho ground that his challenger was' a second-rater and not entitled to a bout with a champion, but under existing conditions con-ditions ho cannot sidestep tho Issue. Mah-mout Mah-mout hns said ho will trail tho American champion until ho does got a match with him or force him to acknowledge that ho Is not entitled to tho title. Tho Mahmout-Jcnklns bout will center Interest again on tho wrestling game, and. tho prospect Is that wrestling will again tako front rank In sports In this country. Before sailing for Europe. Gotch said: "Let Mahmotit throw uomo good man and I will take him on." Demarcst Ia Professional. Trlbuno Special Sporting Service. NEW YORK, Dec. 5. Having beenmo it nmfeqHlnrml bllllnrdlst. ami thoreforo lnollglblo to compete In frtueLmaiB?u! events, Calvin Domanist of ChIcagocmS through the Brunawlck-Balke-ColleJK' company, surrendered tho trophy wflEfi'"' I ho won in the Intcrlnkon tournament 9111 ; at tho Llederkranz club Inst spring ' Will emblem, rccolvcd In Now York a few amir ago, wan turned over to J, FerdlnUP Poggenborg. representing tho Natl3RS" Association of Amateur Billiard PlayKp who transferred It to tho Llederktl'Tij club, In whoso custody It will remain uflfcW tho association decides what shallW:. 1 dono with it. I It3 surrender by Demarcst was ImnPT tlvc. lnnsmuch as It has to bo won iT'lrll by one player beforo becoming his aP-v sonnl property. That another toum!''11 for It will bo held this winter Is In such event, Luclcn Rerolle of Frtitk''f who finished second to Demarcst, maiilP among the exports who will bo lnvlb3fr-., compete ytffcr |