Show the sports CHICAGO july 23 special influential names by the hundred are being attached to the petition asking the legislature to allow a race meeting in cook county without a foreign bick and the petition will probably be taken to springfield tomorrow ane closing up of washington firk harlem and hawthorne have already proved disastrous to the business interests of the city it is calculated that the exodus of horsemen has already coat chicago a mil it is losing at the rate of a week of monies eliat would be in circulation had not racing been prohibited |