The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-27
WITH TROTTER AND PAGER
JAMES BUTLER VILE GIVE 500 600
HOWARD a NEW COURSE.
Location Fsusa, Plans Drawn. and Hair the
Money R~edy TO Replace ioetwosd-
Schemes Tor = Track nt the Ueaa OF the
speedway ana a Naiio Course nj pTorrIu pnrL

Money Ready 20 Replace Foetw oed-
Schemes Tor = Track ut the Uesa or the
Speedway and q siiie Coarse ut Morris Park
The SUN announced last week that James
Butler had found available land for tho pro-
posed new plant which Is needed to take the
place of Fleetwood Park. and that ne would DO
one Of eight men to put up the money necessary
10 purchase and equip the property for harness
racing purposes. Tho President of the Driving
Club now says that II the other seven men can.
not DO found, he will DO one of four to invest
$4,000 each. or he will contribute $780, 600 IL
necessary to carry the project through to reali.
cation. Butler has not yet made any effort to
interest other persons In the enterprise. nor has
he made public the exact location which he has
in view, but 1t can DO said that the track will DO
close to the line of Jerome avenue, about seven
miles north of Maoomb's Dam Bridge.
In placing 100000 as the cost of the plant,
Butler has based his calculations on a grand
stand, stables. and other buildings and equip
ments similar to those of the Crosse Pointe
course at Detroit. He made q careful study of
the Detroit equipments while attending tho
Grand Circuit meeting there Lost summer, and
he regards thom as being so perfect in arrange
ment and construction that he is In favor of
duplicating the buildings in detail on tho pro-
posed new track In this city. A company may
be formed within tho next few weeks to carry
out Buffers project. 1t Is not known who his
associates will be, but James w. DAILY. James
McClenahan. and John IL, Shuts are among
will be controlled by the owners through a man.
ager. The Driving Club Of New York may
have its Headquarters there, but i so the club
Will not direct the management OF tho tretting
9rganiEeG and the new track Is assured it is
ysar!s sr laaa e eir SRfh meeting g ssfiss OF stakes f'F next
While this project is being carried forward,
NTsa G rasss of me IsS Sris ~ infsr Of Q sde wilt ii,nh,o sSmy
scheme which c~ontempletes two new trotting
on the left bank of the Harlem River, north of
nyckman Creek and south Of kingsbridge.
cation about Tie city for n trotting track, but the
tinc has passed when the necessary ground can
i pc b h@d there ;. is Tor ,o =. full snni mile n course %itS = m If 5h9 t ri%S.
house, which will be headquarters for u horse
mems social club similar to the Suburban Club,
who do not belong to the club can find entertain
ment. The track would be devoted to amateur
Parkway and other nearby half-lnile tracks.
jane Butler thinks there Is plenty of room
for the mile track in which he is interested ana
For high.class harness racing and training
Gerken and his friends believe that the sim
to construct a new track for %trotting just In
side the existing circular course for the runners
in THE Sun and has found favor among many
horsemen here. II arrangements could not be
made to utilize the present grand stand and
stables without interfering with. the runners,
new equipments for harness racing might BIO
erected on the opposite side of the track, max
ing what Is now the backstretch of tho Withers
mile the homestretch of the trotting track. In
this way both kinds of sport could be carried
on at the same time independently OF each other,
the %trotters going to and from the inside track
through subways leading under the course for
the runners. Gerken's plan would save the
formidable first cost Of suitable land for u track
and would give to the trotting fraternity n
course much nearer the city than 1t is possible
to locate a new one at this late day.
The proposition to remove the annual trot:
ting meeting Of the New York state Breeders
Association from Poughkeepsie to Goshen,
Orange county, will hardly find favor among
members of that organization. Said. IA well.
known horseman on this subject u few days
ago. or0,.o.,,, :. mora than svor tho rich.
place for the breeders meeting, now that New
York is pretty certain of having one or moro
new mile tracks in time for next year. One
meeting will strengthen the other In securing
direct from Poughkecpsie TO New York. At
Goshen or any other half. mile track tho
breeders meeting would drop at once to tho
level of q second-cla7 80 affair. No matter how
would DO impossible to hold a trotting meeting
there worthy to represent the breeding interests
Of the State Of New York.
The Watch and Ward Society, which was
successful in closing all of tho trotting tracks
about Boston last season, received a setback
last week when the Court at East Cambridge
dismissed the case against John Tyler Hicks
for pool selling at Combination Park. This was
regarded as q test case, and now that 1t has been
decided in favor of the horsemen 1t is expected
that harness racing will be resumed next year
at Readville, Mystic Park, Combination Park
and Franklin Park, with betting carried on
under the plan which the courts have refused
In interfere with