The sun., 1897-12-20
WITH TRo1TER AND PAGER.
PFesident Butler OF tho Driving Club FONTS
Out . Place for n New Race Course

PresIdene Butler OF tho Driving Club Points
Out . Place for n New Race Course.
The followers of trotting in this city have
been waiting with some impatience since the
annual business meeting OF the Driving Club
for signs of animation in the new Executive
Committee. No meeting of tho latter has been
held to elect President, Secretary and Treas
urer and if tho new regime has any definite
plan in view for providing a track to take the
place of Fleetwood Park it has not
been divulged. The work of raising money.
securing suitable ground and construct
ing track and its equipments must neces-
sarily take up several months under the most
favorable circumstances and it is the talk
everywhere among members Of the Driving
Club and horscmen on the outside that no time
ought to be lost in making start II there is to
be Grand Circuit trotting meeting here next
season. The outlook for the coming year is full
OF uncertainty, owing almost wholly to the
hesitating course pursued by the new manage
ment Of the Driving Club.
as President, after pulling the organization out
of debt, is OF those who believe that the best
serN ed BY forming new association, Of not
more than half dozen horsemen. and building
n track somewhere north of the llarlc River,
to be controlled directly by the owners of tho
property. He says his experience at Fleetwood
has led him to believe that no race track can be
successfully managed by committee OF ten or
dozen men. particularly where 800 other club
members have more or less voice in the manage
Il believe in putting the management of tho
track into the hands of one man and then hold
him rcsponsble. Hire iir5tclass Ipnnager.
pay him So, 900 year if you can find one who
is worth it, and let him have free hand to run
the track tho same, s. he would run an opera
President Butler says that in his opinion no
investment could be made at tho present time
which would be more secure or more certain to
turn out successfully than n trst.class one-mle
trotting track convenient TO this city. He has
investigated tho cost OF such o plant, and hnds
that ground can be purchased about seven miles
from the Harlem River. on jerome avenue, and
a track constructed and equipped with grand
Grand Circuit for $2OO0 600. The site which he
has in vi " is no, far from Van C9rilanGt PIIk
ment of horses by railways.
with =. II. Hartman at tho head Of tho New,
trotting meetings held by thai organization at
Poughkeepsie are likely 10 he rail- cd TO Grand
Circuit standard, while there IS = possibility u
q new troiting association Mt brooklyn next
year, with headquarters at the mile Track on
John II. .Shultss Parkville farm. This would pave
! pact circuit, Consisting Of Poughkccpsie New
| York. and Brooklyn, where the horses might be
| kept busy pretty much all summer.
! The Indications are that this State will be the
| stronghold Of harness racing in the East next
year Betting I Ing hnving been s,oprGa,, at Boston
give high.c!ass meetings unless relief can be OBJ
tained pde before the season opens. WIN Mystic,
| closed. the two mile tracks in Maine, at Old
Orchard Beach and Portland, can hardly go 1t
alone III ;bis city. on the other hand the out
| look for an active season was never more favor
| able barring the uncertainty about new track
1t is reported that Buffalo and Rochester will
| once more swing into line IN the Grand Circuit,
now that poolstlling is possible under the law,
and Glens Falls will again apply for admission
| to the big league.
Nathan Strauss offer to match Cobwebs. gag.
against Calvary Morris's Cleveland champion
| E!lorec, oOoi, for $4,000 u side. TO trot to
Wagons over the proposed new track in this
| city, has brought ont another candidate for
cago that Newcastle. 2:llai, was purchased
! there lHsI week for u syndicate of Cleveland
| h0rscmcn, who wish to match him against Cob
webs in case tho owner o. Elloree refuses 10
' race over the track proposed by Mr.. Straus. 1t
| is said that the Newcastle parties are wiling to
! trot over any track that the owner % Cobwebs
| may namc SO that the race ought to be co.