The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-25
Nd MORE RACES
FOR BRIGHTON
AerOplanes Will Succeed the
Ponies at Famous Sleeps
head Bay Course.
CELEBRATED TURF CENTER
NOW SLEEPY VILLAGE
Cross-Country Sportsmen Await
Elaborate Entertainment for
the Lynnewood Farms.
BY JAMES DoCKERALL.
Leased Wire 10 The Tribune.

BY Leased Wire TO The Tribune.
NEW YORK, Sept. 24.-After a peri
cd of thirty years the Shcepshead Bay
race track which was devoted exclusive
ly to his majesty the horse has been in
vadcd by something that was never con-
templated by the men who established
that most beautiful race course. The
gates of America Is most famous race
track were actually opened to make way
for an airship exhibition. Old-timers
who looked on regarded this as almost q
proclamation Of the track.
II is possible that the last horse race
has been seen on the Sheepshcad Bay
valuable, containing thousands of city
lots. may he cut up and sold. 1T is said
to be valued Mt $2.0o0,000, aside from
the stands, stables, paddocks and other
structures, The track is owned by
the Coney Island Jockey club, made up
almost exclusively of members Of New
York g famous I" four hundred -
The Brighton track is an individual
enterprise. owned by Engemann of
have not already sold II, as was report.
ed. The track is used for automobile
and other kinds of contests. The Grave
send track is owned by small lot Of
politicians for whom il was mine prior
10 the doom Of race track betting. Mere
ly as a piece of land it possesses great
value 1t is regarded as very likely
that before long they all will be cut
into building lots, II has been sug-
be bought by the city and used as n
great athletic field for the boys and
young men of the city.
At Sheepshead Bay tho hardest blow
of all has been struck by the close of
racing, In other days September was
the busiest month of the year. Were
racing now in vogue the fall meeting
would Just be beginning, The hotels
would be crowded, the stores would he
jehu's whip would herald the passing
back and forth through the little ham
LET Is streets of the thousands whose in.
terests were conferred Mt the tracks
Al William SchnssIer's s on the Shore
road and Fifteenth street, nj Driscoll
Thatcher s Belmont inn. nj Mill g and
Corrodi IS places on The Shore road. and
at Dooley s, over on Jerome avenue and
Seventeenth street, tables for dinner are
no longer at a premium. There is room
for all.
Edward Stoddard. whose hotel on
Gravesend avenue. was for years fa
vorte meeting place Of hundreds of
track employers and thousands of rae
ing followers. has closed his doors.
Same Story Everywhere
The story one heard at Stoddard's and
John Farrell $ was the same as one
could hear at Raleigh IS at Kings High
way.
Along the neck of road. which in davs
of racing saw thousands make their why
on foot in carriages ar automobiles, on
their way across from Gravesend to
Sheepshead Bay, the same story is told.
At everyone Of these places that dot
the two mile places were little groups
on Thursday offering each other CON
ISOLATION.
With no racing around New York,
there is a tendency on the part Of the
management Of tho fairs to devote at
teution to tho thoroughbred end Of the
sport. The latest fair To take up this
branch of racing is the International
state fair of Trenton. y. j.
This is one of the biggest Of tho
many fairs along the Atlantic coast