The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-21
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N. Y. HOPEFULLY
Turfmen Think Gittins Bills
Will Pass; DOckeraII
Does Not.
CALIFORNIA MAY GET
TO SEE RACING AGAIN
Prospects for Half-MiIe Riding
in Empire State Are
Bright.
BY JAMES DocKERALL.
Leased Wire to The Tribune.

BY JAMES DOCkERALL
BY Leased Wire to The Tribune.
NEW YORK, May 20.-The race
track men and a number of leading
horse owners are hopeful of pushing
through the Gittins bills now before
the legislature. One provides for the
repeal Of the law which makes race
track directors responsible for gam.
bling on the tracks. The other relates
to what constitutes gambling. do
not think either will pass, for the rea-
son / have frequently given, the oppo
sition Of the clergy, based on knowl
edge of the facts.
President r. T. Wilson, .Jr., of the
Saratoga Racing association, says of
the measures:
"Wc do not ask repeal or modifi
cation of the Agnew Hart law. We
do ask, however. legislative construc-
tion of the provision which imposes |
liability upon the owner of any place
in which a bet may be made upon any
event, such as "A baseball game, horse
race or a pool match without the con-
sent or knowledge of such owner.
"The other law asked defines book
making without writing as the laying
or publishing odds TO all comers or
to the public. We simply ask that the
how to act in the matter of arrests,
and that we may more clearly know ex-
actly what the legislature seeks to
suppress.
May Get Sport Back.
That there may be racing in Cali
fornia again is the opinion of Thomas
H. Williams, president Of the new Cali I
fornia Jockey club, who arrived here
Sunday.
Merchants and other men Of stand
ing, hope resumption of racing in
California will take place., says Will
liams. HThey are sanguine that the
the Pacific slope has resulted from re-
cent legislation
Racing men have always been law
abiding citizens, and / believe the out !
look for racing in my state to be good. -
The prospects of half track rae
ing, especially in New York state. are
promising for the coming season in
spite of the conditions. Once the trot
ting sport starts, there will be a con
tinuation such as was hardly ever wit
messed, while the premiums offered
everywhere are surely the richest ever
givn to trotting horse owners and driv-
ers in the Empire state.
The present prospects, of course. are |
based on the number and value of early
closing purses announced and the few
racing circuits that the are announced
as formed, as the regular race meetings
in connection with county fairs are
yet to be announced.
That there will be many two and
three-day race meets in this state be-
fore the main half mile tracks start
their purse events is more than GER
tain, yet the real sport will not begin
until August, when the big meeting,
under the auspices of the Parkway New
York Driving club opens the season as
the curtain-raiser for theS rich purse
events which will follow in regular
succession and continue to late in the
fall
The arrangements of at least half
n dozen half mile tracks in this state
had already started with the purpose
of outdoing their ueighbors in the
number and value of purses, when the
reached them from the small but horsey
town of Chateaugay, which stands now
in position to outdo all others.
Record Entry List.
The entries of the four $1,000 early
closing purses for the Parkway track
closed May /. With nearly 200 horse
men interested in the future success
of this meeting as hackers. and some
as entrants, record entry list is as.
sured, which means that the season of
half mile track racing will start pro-
pitiously as far as the number and
quality of prospective contenders are
concerned.
From Brooklyn the cavalcade will
march in full force to Monroe, N. Y,
the following week, where it will find
additional horses, because this thriving
half-mile track association offers
enough purses to tempt everything of
the highest quality in the eastern half
mile track circuits, and some from the
far west,
There are mighty few half mile
tracks in the United States that offer
$4,000 worth of early closing purses and
class events of equal proportions, so
that the practical owner and driver
who is after the dollar will not fail
to take in both Parkway and Monroe,
and then all that follow them.
After Monroe comes Goshen, short
distance away, with early closing
purses of $4,000 more than the COM
bincd value of the same events at
Parkway and Monroe. This course will
be the mecca for half mile track horses
and the iuiciest melon for them to cut.
thanks to unexpected circumstances, the
Goshen track, the topnotcher of half
milers, became absolutely separated
from the grand circuit,
SUNDAY EXCURSIONS.
s1oo round trip to Ogden Sundays