Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1914 — CHICAGO MEN MAY BUY THE RAGE COURSE [ARTICLE]

CHICAGO MEN MAY BUY THE RAGE COURSE

Racing at Mineral Springs to He Resumed Nest Tear if Condi* tkms Are Favorable. The drama of Mineral Springs race track which (began with (the first horse racing Indiana has seen in fifteen yearn and ended with the appearance of the state militia may be enacted all over again. Instead otf the site being turned Into a Clover field where peacefulcattle might graze or laid out in town lots, as was suggested by the owners, the call w boots and saddle may again ring out and fast horses thunder down the home Stretch in moralized races. The suit o t the Manhattan Lumber company against the owners of the track for the price Of the nfatenial is now in the supreme court When a decision is given the park may he sold and up in Chicago i t is said there is a syndicate of turf men ready to bid in the track and reopen it. when everything to all “right;* . They believe, it is said, that the next session of the legislature will pass a bill which will legalize betting on the Pari Mutual plan, by which the State will receive a percentage of the profils. This was proposed at the last session of the legislature, but Instead another bill was presented, passed and only tailed because ft was not signed by the governor. As a result the track was (dosed after the ©oanpletJon of the first meet Then, too racing men declare that ft was the baseball interests and ithe (Chicago papers, acting with the baseball men, that put the quietus on racing in Indiana. The crowd which how proposes to get hold oif the track says 'this can be overcome. One racing man said: "There Is Just one way to make racing go and R can be done. Racing cap> and probably will be revived in this State” The Porter track was closed last year after one meet of 15 days’ duration had been successfully run off. Then same the militia under the governor’* orders and the sport dosed with the Jockey Chib heavily 1 fNothing can be done this year, but next summer probably will see the new attempt to start racing earned out,