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Show California may spell finish for the sport In a few days The Pacific Coast has been considered tho bulwark of the running turf for several years, and with that carried, lltllo seems to remain re-main for the t urfmen. Kentucky, is still holding the fort, but It looks a little rocky even In the blue grass region. New York has hopes, but that la about all, with Governor Ilughea sitting on tho lid for the next two years. Promoters around Chicago have "jollied" "jol-lied" themselves" all "winter" and any number of "pipe dreams" an t6 racing 'on the local tracks have been fed to tho gullllble, but the odds seem to he against any resumption of tho sport. With tho condition of administration In Indianapolis hopes began to rise only to have a set back, and so practically prac-tically all around the circuit. Arkansas jumped In with a claim that the anti-race anti-race bill of that state would bo repealed repeal-ed for the benefit of Hot Springs, but there seems to be little doing In that neck of tho woods. Farther South they have succeeded In landing the bettors In Jail, but tho lawyers are now busy telling the promoters pro-moters In Louisiana that before they get through with the Locke law they will be ablo to drive a coach and four through the raeasuie. The "touts" seem to be the only ones who are taking tak-ing any stock In the arguments. Down In Texas they seem to over.lo the tiling, which has always been the case In the past, and tho legislators and reform bodies arc sitting up and taking notice of the doings at San An tonlo, El Paso and other places, and so all along the lino. Michigan has tabooed ta-booed the "bookies" and every eastern state Is closed to the penclllngs. Taking stock around the circuit, everybody ev-erybody seems to be asking how It happened. hap-pened. Up to date no one has been able to give the answer, but just the same the feed bills are accumulating at every track where the stables are still standing right side up, and the "breeding "breed-ing industry" is certainly getting Its jolts. That the purely commercial and gambling end has killed the sport can hardly be disputed. When tracks are overgrown with weeds, the stables crumbling to decay and the cry of , "Come on you" has been hoard for the last time. the. verdict is likely to be just or unjust; "they had it coming com-ing to 'em." Had there been less scramble for the "percentage" and more of the real sport of horse racing the legislators now probably would not be holding night sessions in order to put the kingly sport on the toboggan. Racing Is Doomed v in This Country Where Racing Is Threatened Call-, f 0rnla -Washington, Texas, Montana, I j! Georgia. ' ' 1 ' ' ' " - A Where Betting Has Been Killed Jew-York, Missouri, Wisconsin New jJ,l8ey Tennessee, Indiana, Louisiana, abVama' Illinois, District of Columbia, V Hampshire, Colorado. Michigan. El"here Racing Is Undisturbed Ken CW,W'. Florida.' -- . catinV.of Important tracks idle. 25, Uuo of idle turf property, $25,000,- Try ; . l Value of horses out of training. $10-000.000. $10-000.000. ' , ' Turf employes out of work, 50,000, -wNei I?' Feb 5. Is the racing in the United States playing a farowell engagement these days? It begins to look that way, although It hardly carries car-ries much of a shock with it. Horsemen Horse-men throughout tho country have been looking for the dropping of the curtain on the "sport of kings" quite a while now, and are not looking for any encores en-cores from those manipulating it. . ' I The drama now being played out in |