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Show ' great distance to enter them in the big stake events at which about $15,-000 $15,-000 would be distributed. Freed claimed that President McDonald had i exceeded his authority in announcing ; ; that the races would close on th 2Rth. without a meeting of the board. ! He also claimed that President McDonald Mc-Donald .had given the Jockey club assurances as-surances thar tho meeting would continue con-tinue for forty days. President McDonald read a petition from numerous business men asking that the raring le stopped and he also produced letters from Senators C A. , Badger and C. E. Marks and from Representative Cannon, asking that the meeting be brought to a close. j Treasurer H. Glcaaon took the blow In a quiet manner and said: , "The decision of the state fair board not to extend the meeting to tho expect ex-pect ed limit of forty days was a great disappointment to us." 'hut InaHrourh as this , decision represents the voice of a majority of the directors, we will accept it gracefully and without complaint com-plaint or criticism. It means quite n big loss to us and a great inconvenience inconveni-ence and loss to horsemen v.ho expected ex-pected to share In the distribution of the 515.000 or $lS,0i)0 additional purse money that we would have distributed In the ten days, but it cannot b- helped now. The meeting will end after the card is run off Friday afternoon, aft-ernoon, in accordance with the officially offi-cially expressed wish of the fair board of directors." I It is expected that by ' Saturday nearly all the horses will be shipped out of the city. Most of them will go to Butte for the meeting there next month. With reference to the Davis county proposition, mentioned a few days ago, Mr. Gleason said: "You may say that it is our aim to build a mile track, one of the best In the country, and that some of the ery best, men in the state will be associated in the project." vy RACE MEETINGS TO END IN SALT LAKE Salt Lake, June 24. By a vote of 7 to 3, the toard of directors of the State Fair association refused to grant the Utah Jockey club an exten- slon of ten daysand after the program pro-gram Is run this afternoon the end of the meeting will have been reached and many of tho horsemen will ship their horses to Butte for the meeting there bpginning July 5. ! Tho directors wen1 in session Wed npsday afternoon from 2 to 5:45 p. m, and the vote was "as follows: Against extension J. G. McDonald, W. C. Winder, John II. Seely, Mr. Pleasant: T. H. Smith, Logan; R. R Irvine (Provo (by proxy): C. A:. Hickenlooper, Ogden; Mrs. W. W. Ri-ter. Ri-ter. .Mrs. N. A. Empey. For extension Lester D. Freed, M. K. Parsons and W. F. Armstrong. The meeting and its result engendered engen-dered some bitterness betwpon Prrs- ident J. G. McDonald and Director Lester D. Freed. Theforrner headed the fight against a continuance of the races and the latter championed the cause of the horsemen and the Jockey club. Immediately following the vote Director Freed tendered his vote and stated that he took the action because be-cause he had opposed President McDonald Mc-Donald and could not consistently remain re-main a member of the board, but not because he had been outvoted. President McDonald was asked for a statement of just what transpired at the meeting, but declined, at th3 time, to say anything further than that the members had all agreed to saiy nothing for publication. Ho said, however, that later he might Issue a statement. Iast evening Mr. McDonald McDon-ald said Mr. Freed was "in a bad position" posi-tion" and also that sometime ago Mr. Freed agreed with him that the races ought to close, but that suddenly he "had experienced a budden change of heart,'' Director Freod issued the following statement: "I resigned my position as director of the Utah State Fair association because be-cause under present condition, all of the directors, save Mr. McDonald, are absolutely useless. When the board is so dominated by its president that no member of the hoard not in tho good graces of the president has any voice in the proceedings of the board, then, in my opinion, there is no place on the board for persona who do not agree with tho president. When It is possible for the president of the board to give out an interiew prior to the meeting of the board, and purporting pur-porting to speak for the board, Just what the proceedings of the board will be. I cannot tor the life of me see of what avail such a meeting can be. "To my mind President. McDonald's action in connection with the lease of the Utah Jockey club and with several sev-eral other matters, have been unsatisfactory. unsatis-factory. "I do not caro to have my motives misconstrued. The members of the management of the Utah Jockey club are practically strangers to me, but I know that Mr. McDonald, above all other members of the board, was morally mor-ally obligated to vote for an extension of ten days to this club of the lease on the fair grounds track. I resigned, not because I was outvoted on this proposition, but because I cannot tolerate tol-erate the actions of the president of the board in eternally usurping the rights of the entire board." When the discussion began at the meeting, Mr. Freed read a letter from Treasurer W. IL Gleason. setting forth the posltionof the Utah Jockey club aud the plea of the horsemen for an extension of teu days. He said that to close at this time would be a great loss to the horsemeu. as many of them had brought horses from a |
