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Show 1WIOM TO CIIMIOETHE BOLES Rules Committee of Western Association Not Clothed With Authority. NEW YORK. Dec. 7. The proposition to make the rules of harness racing uniform uni-form on all tracks through Joint action of committees of the National Trotting association as-sociation and the American Trotting association as-sociation may not succeed, officers of the National association declared today, owing to the apparent failure of the Western association to clothe its rules committee with authority to act. The Western association sent w:ord that it had appointed a committee of six to meet with a committee chosen on Tuesday Tues-day by the special congress of the National Na-tional association here and urged "that meetings of the joint committee shall take place not later than the middle of December." Up to the time the National association adjourned it had received ito reply to a telegram asking whether the Western committee had power to act. Pierre Eorillard, Jr., of Tuxedo Park, N. Y.; Henry B. Rea of Pittsburg, Pa., and Reese Blizzard of Parkershurg, W. Va., were elected to fill vacancies on the board of review of the National association. associa-tion. In the docket of turf litigation the only case of general interest decided was one from Sacramento, Cal., involving a ruling rul-ing of local judges last summer in a race for the Occident cup for three-year-olds. The race was trotted on a heat-dash system and by the published conditions was to end after three heats. When three heats had been trotted, however, two horses tied for first money and the cup. The judges ordered another heat, : but one of the owners protested the rul- j lug and appeal e-d to the turf court. The I protest was sustained by the board in ! an order to the judges to divide first J money and either give a cup to each colt , or let the drivers draw lots for the one ! in dispute. i |