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Show UTOI RACE MEET' TO Ei TOMORROW Extra Time Will Enable , Completion of $300,000 Red Cross -Fund. CINCINNATI, Ohio, Nov. 2d. After conferring witii former Senator Johnson N. Camden, chairman of the state racing commission, General Manager John Hacli-meister Hacli-meister of tne Latonia Jockey club has announced that the fall meeting of the I.atonia Jockey club, which has been in progress since November would close Thursday. Thanksgiving day. This will make the duration of the meeting fourteen racing days, which will be just seven days short of the original allotment of twemy-onc racing days made by the Kentucky state racing commission commis-sion before the influenza epidemic disrupted dis-rupted the-ptons for the opening of the meeting last month. The decision to close the meeting on Thanksgiving day instead of continuing it to the end of the week, which would have been permissible under the Kentucky law. was determined on the suggestion of Senator Camden that the racing be continued con-tinued only long enough to permit the completion" of the fund of "rt.Ofiu which :i:e ra -ii-q interests of the stale pledged themsnives to raise during the present racing season in Kentucky tor the bene:it of the Ked Cross. The laising of this fund has been go-ing go-ing along steadily all season. and the go.il probably will be reached, so far as the contributions cf the race tracks, i their employees and the horsemen are concerned, on Thursday. Had there not I been sufficient racing this fall to complete com-plete the fund, it had been . planned to continue the assessments next spring. H;itpiiy this will not now be necessary. neces-sary. :nd no assessments will he required re-quired in-:; ; season. c- j i V.m'id-'i-1 with the announcement j thai t't.i- ra "i:' woi:;d hj ext'-nded tiicrej i ;a ta". value of Ce i,:r.c--- 'r the f::;ai j . tys u. t he met. ting. |