Show LET US HAVE PEACE I I Shy Not Revive the Gootl Old V Days How about races Are you going go-ing to have a spring meeting Such and similar questions are frequently put I by and to the reporter The answer is uniformly an unsatisfactory one Cant tell you I dont know Go and ask Mac You must see Johnny and so forth ad libitum There has for years been a Driving Park Association in Og den who used to give spirited races on their grounds in the northern part of town races where some of the best trotters trot-ters pacers and runners of the Territory and its immediate neighborhood took part But of late say for about a year I or two an apathy seems to have developed devel-oped itself and meetings on the turf have been gradually fewer and fewer until at the present day all interest seems to have been extinguished The chief reason of this not innocuous innocu-ous desuetude is to be found in the fact that there is not a sufficient number of men who take stock in the getting up of good races Years ago we had a numerous numer-ous contingent oi horsefleshloving and sportcultivating gentlemen who put their whole soul and a goodly portion of the contents of their purses into races But many yea most of them have gone Let us see M H Beardsley is providing for the appetite of the travelers on the D K G at Green River J AV Willis and Win Carroll have I run their own race and are now resting i where there are no judges stands or pools J M Langsdorf is raising instead of a running noble equines on his ranch in Ogden valley Ambrose Greenwell is devoting all his attention to the quadruped with cloven hoofs Wm Van Dyke is all grain and salt Patsey llealeys mind is set after the golden fleece of his sheep flocks Adam Pattersons attention fluctuates between railroading banking and stock raising There are left only a few of the Knights of the Turf J AV McNutt John M Dee and possibly two or three others For these alone the burden would be too J heavy the responsibility too great But shall the noblest of all sports be allowed I to fall into ignominious neglect in Ogden I Let there be a boom for horse races also |