Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-02-17 | Page 19 | Race Track Moguls Face Problems Harder to Solve than Parlay Bets

Race Track Moguls Face Problems Harder to Solve Th Than an Parlay Bets NEW YORK Feb 17 SIX P Six weeks ago the directors of ot the Thoroughbred Racing Associations Associations Inc scheduled a regular meeting to discuss ordinary business business busi busi- ness like horse four-horse parlays and daily doubles payoffs They hold the meeting Wednesday Wednesday and and it its it's about as ordinary as a stick sUck of ot dynamite In baby's rattle From a routine together get-together Wednesdays Wednesday's party among the half dozen directors representing 33 of ot the nations nation's major race rac tracks has become an important all session ses bes aes- aes sion t tp decide how racing can continue continue con con- during the war without getting getting get get- ting in the way of the war effort They'll have to figure out nut what's going to happen to the sport of kings without the help of ot any transportation except regular regular reg reg- ular train trolley and bus lines At this time it seems racing definitely will wiIl continue unless new headaches spring up As Aa the di directors directors di di- rectors headed by John C. C Clark whose Hialeah park closed its doors without even opening them this year and Colonel Matt Winn who's going to Vun tron un his Kentucky derby even if it only two horses and three mint juleps are on hand sat down to their meeting it appeared they were going to follow the same general pattern as now seems to have fit baseball and football into the picture This Is that racing is going on onas onas onas as long and as far as it can If It and when It tangles with the war effort it will close up That's I j 1 what Kenesaw 1 M. M L Landis promised j. j for baseball a couple of ot weeks ago 1 I and Its It's what Major John L. L Griffith Grit Grif- C the commissioner of ot the Bl Big Ten conference has s hinted for college college col col- lege football Each geographical section of the turf is bothered with a different kind of pain just now Maryland's Mary Mary- ary lands land's track three day 45 spring o ao program already has been sliced vs n to 15 days with only operating Ben Lindheimer helmer Arlington's boss will tell ten about the Chicago difficulties chief chiet of ot which is that the two big tracks tracks Arlington Arlington and Washington park park are are some dis- dis tance Lance out Ot of f town although servIced serviced iced by train routes In New York the four metropolitan tracks tracks- Belmont Aqueduct Jamaica Jamalca and Empire City look City look to be ready willing and able to run But Niagara far upstate can only have a gloomy outlook j J