The Sentinel=record., 1909-10-05
AMONG THOSE THAT ARE INDlcT- ED WERE JOHN G. cAvA-
 NAUGr AND EULER.
"ora Betting" Gets Severe Shock at the Hands of the Kings coun-
 ty Grand Jury--Two
 Tracks Implicated.

New York, Oct 4.-After two years of agitation against race track gam. l bling in this state marked by the pas
 sage of the drastic anti-racing bill generally referred to as the Hart-Ag new law, it remained for the Kings | county tBrooklyn) grand jury to write l chapter in the crusade today, when there were handed up in court indict- ments against the two big Kings county race tracks, three police off. cials, five private detective and twen. ty-five bookmakers
 The Brighton Beach Racing Alssocia-
 ion was similarly involved last year but the case failed of action, and here tofore has been mainly against brok- CTS or bettors, the defendants in which proceedings have been generally ex- onerated by the lower courts, which held that oral betting was no crime l The first test of these cases will be made by the court of appeals this week.
 It was the increase of oIsl betting conducted by the so-called memory brokers that resulted in this latest evidence of Governor Hughes activity and the indictment as corporations of the Brooklyn Jockey Club and rhe Coney Island Jockey Club. For some time past it was known that Governor Hughes was dissatisfied witll the apparent increase in oral betting conducted on comparatively small scale during the first part of the racing season and for several days there have been rlmors of indictment. But it was not until today that 1t be- came definitely known who the defend anfs were.
 Foremost are the Coney Islandl and Brooklyn Jockey Clubs, charged as companions with conspiracy in allow ing betting to go on This involves a humber of the most prominent sup. porters of racing in the United States.
 W. K. Vanderbilt owns a controlling interest in the Coney Island Jockey Club, of which Schuyler L. Parsons is president. George Peabody Wet more and Mir Vanderbilt are vice pres idents, r. R. Hitchcock, treasurer; V. F. Schaumberg, secretary, and Thos. H. Smith, racing secretary The board of governors includes also j. Harry Alexander, F. Gray Griswold, Thos. Hitchcock, Jr.. F. D. Morgan. Herbert c. Pell. F. K. Sfurgis and J. w wads- worth
 The president of the Brooklyn Jockey Club. which operates the Gravesend track, is Philip J Sawyer F. Rehberger is secretary.
 The police officials indicted for con spiracy in the ground that they know ingly permitted the Sheepshead Bay race track to be used on August % last. for betting purposes, are Inspect or John J. OBrlen, who is accused also of neglecting his duty in failing properly to supervise the work of his subordinates, Sergeant Hugh Reynolds and Hugh Meyers, of Inspector OBri- ems personal staff
 The private detectives arrested were Seymour Butler who was in charge of the race track force, and four of his subordinates.
 John c. Cavanaugh, who for years | has been the dominating figure in the betting rings of tho metropolitan tracks, leads the list of twenty-five alleged bookmakers who are indicted. The list includes the best known book makers in the country.
 The three indicted police officials were arraigned in the Brooklyn court today. pleading not guilty and were released on parole Warrants for the arrests of the others were issued and
 a search for them was immediately
 begun. It is expected that the cases
 Will be all set for trial on October IS.
 There was much gloomy speculation
 among local followers of racing to- night as to the probable effect of the new crusade against gambling.
 During the preesnt season the new system of betting, which was evoked for the purpose of evading the Hart Agnew law, has put new hfe into the
 racing game and the tracks. while by
 no means as successful as they were
 before Governor Hughes signed the
 anti-gamblIng bill, have recovered q
 measure of their prosperity and have
 been well patronized.