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Show TO REVIVE RACING AT GARY, INDIANA Chicago, Aug. 13. Plans arc being laid to conduct a 15-day race meeting meet-ing at Garj. Iud., to begin about Sept. 1. It Is said that many owners of stables havo promised to ship to Gary for meet. The promoters of the venture ven-ture are confident that there will bo no Interference. Ten years ago the governor of In-dinna In-dinna caled on the militia to suppress racing In the sand dunes of northern Ilooslerdom The old Roby track was the last of the merry-go-rounds to bo put out of business, and ever since it closed its gates for keeps reports of tho revival of tho sport have occurred oc-curred Various men and syndicates havo been mentioned from time to time In connection, with the project, and now comos nnother roport that a track is to be established. The latest aspiring promoters havo Incorporated under tho laws of South Dakota a company known as the Indiana Racing and Hotel Ho-tel association. A F. Knots, mayor of Hammond during Its racing days: Mayor L. E. Darrow of Laporte, and W.J McAleer, a Hammond attorney, are said to bo among those Interested Interest-ed In the new venture Advantage will be taken of the stnto law which permits thirty days' racing in each county annualjy There will bo two one-half mile tracks, one ' at Mineral Springs, near the A. F. i Knots summer resort, and tho other i one probably at Roby, near Gary. Thua a sixty days' circuit wlil be maintained without any Interruption ' A hotel and sanitarium will be erect- I ol at Mineral Springs, and It Is plan- ; nod to mako the place a second " French Lick. ( ' There will be no violations of tho ' state laws, and, according to those I behind the scheme, bnore will be no I betting nlowcd on tho trackB. |