The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-10
GOSSIP or THE RACETRlCE
EN6EMAN SAYS THERE'LL BE
NO BRIGHTON MEETING.

ENGEMAN SAYS THERE'LL BE
NO BRIGHTON MEETING.
Hesseaiea Talk Of Taking Over the siz
Days sn Ceeperauye Pian-Orsl Beta
Win Ne Allowed u Grayesend-The
Jockey Club 70 ne Reorsanized'
william Engennan. owner Of the Brighton
track. said yesterday In reply To q direct
question that there would be no fall meet
ing ct the beach under his direction. BIZ.
Engeman as much as said that he did not
zee much OF o future for racing and that
he did not think II would DO good policy "a
run OF the six days scheduled for his track
directly after the close of the Graveeend
meeting. This means that. unless the
Jockey Club or the horsemen themselves
step In and run the meeting there VIII bt
an undesirable gap In the racing schedule,
II has been the policy Of the various asso-
Citations to keep the tracks open without
letup until. the end Of the present cam.
paien on November Is. The detection
OF Brighton, IL was said yesterday, Will
not be relished by the other racing associ.
atoms. A racetrack s~tockholder said Last
night: 5
brighton should have filled out The
schedule even u 500 purses wore the best
TO be offered. IL looks like o clear case
OF quitting under fro. The J0ckey Club
should take over the six days anyway
aud run cheap races II only 70 Keep the
gates open"
:. Horssmen were busy discussing . plan
yesterday by which they could conduct
O meeting Of their own at the beach. Sew
eral Of them said that a combination could
be Formed which would handle the gate
receipts and cut them up each day for
the winners Of the various racos. Ex-
penses, they said. could be reduced 70 q
minimum and In that way the sport could
be kept up. while owners could still have
o chance TO get some feed money.
Before the summer meeting at the Beach
was run q local syndicate OF horsennen
stood ready to lease the track and assume
all liabilities, but the offer wa promptly
trrned down. This syndicate viii have
nothing 10 do with Q similar proposition
now. It wa suggested yesterday that
James Butler might take owes the SIX days
for an extra meeting at Yonkers. but az
Mr.. Butler has q fall meeting Of his wi and
as he lost nearly 80. 600 on the summer ses-
zion at Empire City 1t IL believed that he
would not favor such an arrangement.
P. J. Dwyer, president Of the Brooklyn
Jockey Club, wishes to have n Understood
that he has no idea OF defying the law dur
ing the coming meeting ut Gravesend. Mr..
Dwyer says that he has q State license TO
conduct o race meeting at his track and that
he intends TO live up 70 the provisions Of It.
He says. however. that he Will not permit
bookmaking on his property n that he
will ask the POLICE Department TO strictly
enforce the law Ia that respect. A police
oliciai said yesterday!
when Gravesend opens we will respect
the Bischof, Gaynor and Hoyt decisions
to the letter. We will make no arrests
except 10 cases where bets are recorded or
money passes between individuals. Under
these decisions oral betting can 30 on and
there can be q settlement the next day.
The point covering professional book
makers Is just this: There are no book
makers now. Persons who were book
makers once have ~ much right to accept
oral wayers from their friends as any other
divtduals. II will be 4 difficult matter
to define q professional bookmaker under
the present conditions. In u opinion
. bookmaker 10 a person who displays odds,
accepts caah wasers. records them and then
Oh after each race. II any such bust
ness Is attempted ut Gravesend We win
not hesitate to make arrests. But It Is not
our.intention TO interfere with persons who
speculate In accordance with the decisions
Of the courts" ,. ,
If this police official speaks by the card
there will be as much turf speculation at
Gravesend a. at Saratoga. Yonkers and
Brighton. but there will be no cash business.
and layers who accept wagerv Will be coms
PEELED TO memorize them or run chances Of
arrest and prosecution.
There was the same vigilance by the
Pinkertons and the sleuths sent to the track
by the District Attorneys office yesterday.
Rubber shoe men were following suspects
from one end OF the enclosure TO the other.
Stool pigeons were numerous and before the
races were over spectators Who were not
even doing business among themselves were
afraid to speak to friends In the presence Of
A we'll known member Of the
Nets who wal watched by eight detectives
Tuesday sat in the grand stand all the
afternoon with four sleuths within arms
Of him. When he left the track he
wos treiled TO the cars.
Three men went to the lunch counter
under the grand stand to eat pie. and while
In the act q sleuth put his head among them
70 overhear the conversation, 1t looked
Nke a.8sbt- fcr1Rpfev,. <pamspte, Thess
which have been kept up ever since
the meeting at the Bay opened. have served
TO reduce the attendance to such small num-
bers that only hardened resulars REQ
hand yesterday.
n. B. Duryea denied yesterday that he had
leased training quarters In France. but he
admitted that he would send over several
brood mares with the horses to be taken to
France shortly by Thomas Welsh. Fred
will 20 TO France too. to train q
small string In his own interests, II was
denied that he would handle some steeple-
over there for T. Hitchcock. Jr.
It was rumered yesterday that A. j.
Joyner would sail for England on October
Is With . stable owned by August Belmont
and also what is left Of H. p. Whitney's
string otter the wedding out sale on Sep
70. Those who q they know
what they are talking about declare that
there 10 no longer any doubt that Messrs.
Belmont and Whitney will race formidable
strings In England next year and that
Joynsr will train for them.
Thsre was also a report that James r.
Keene would decide TO send q stable to
England In the care Of James Rowe, but
this could not be verified. Furthermore
II was currently reported that within the
next month, or so tho Jockey Club would
be entirely reorganized and that August
Belmont would DO ~supplanted by Q new
chairman. said to be r. T. Wilson. Jr.,
or James Butler. just at present 1t may
be- said that the turf governors are decid-