Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-07
SPORTS or ALL SORTS
Jockey Club Stewards Fix
Benning Soring Dates.
TO START MARCH %
PRESIDENT PULLIAM SAYS NO
CHANGE IN RULES.
Stormy Golf Meeting Expected-Good
Bowling Matches-Turf and
Track Notes.

The stewards of the Jockey Club, after a
long session in New York. which wound up
last night, decided to refuse the application
of the Empire City Trotting Club for dates
for a running meeting at the track located
near Yonkers. and also assigned dates for
the spring meeting of the Washington
Jockey Club at Benning from March % to
April Is, inclusive.
Those present at the meeting, which was
held at the Windsor Arcade, were August
Belmont, J. H. Bradford, F. K Sturgis, H.
K. Knapp and Andrew Miller. Mr.. Belmont
presided.
The refusal of the stewards to recognize
Empire City must be taken to mean that
the state racing commission, composed of
August Belmont, L. D. Morgan and John
Sanford. has already declined to grant a
license under the laws of the state to the
Yonkers track. When the Empire City peo-
pie made their application recently they in
tfmated that If 1t was refused they would
carry the matter to the courts, a proceed
ing that may now be expected
In making the allotment for the spring
meeting at Benning the stewards have
shown conclusiyely that there is a hitch
over the final arrangement of dates for the
local tracks, but ii was said last night that
the matter would be satisfactorily decided
at another meeting of the stewards on
Thursday. From present indications there
Will be no more racing at Aqueduct. 1t is
accepted as foregone conclusion that the
Queens County Jockey Club within the next
few days will sell the Aqueduct track to a
syndicate representing, it is said the West
chester Racing Association, which will oper-
ate Belmont Park this year. Aqueduct is
said to be worth about $500 900, and the
syndicate will probably pay this amount to
the stockholders, including the heirs of the
late Thomas ID. Reilly.
With Aqueduct off the racing map there
the New York Jockey Club, which has
leased Morris Park for period of ten years
at $4,000 year According to the present
plan, as outlined by prominent turfmen,
Morris Park will open the local racing sea-
son on April Is with ten days meeting,
followed by Jamaica with the usual quota
of dates. Then Belmont Park will begin
opera tons on the old schedule formerly
granted to the Westchester track, after
and Saratoga will come in for their old al
lotments. 1t is barely possible that the
stewards at the last moment will decide to
let Jamaica open and close the season, but
nothing authentic on this line could be
learned last night
1t is understood that the New York Jockey
Club, which is composed of several wealthy
turfmen. will frame up some valuable stakes
for the spring and fall meetings. in order to
keep the racing up to the usual high stand
ard at Westchester. But there will be no
such events as the Metropolitan handicap,
the Withers. the National Stallion and other
stakes, all of which will be run at Belmont
Park. incidentally the stewards have APP
pointed Joseph A. Murphy, the presiding
steward at Essex Park, Hot Springs. handi-
capper and judge at the Benning meeting.