Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-05-31
RAGING REVIVED
 IN NEW YORK Belmont Park is EeOpened After Three Years of Anx-
 ious Waiting. ONLY ORAL BETTING Court Decision Results in the Re-Es- tablishment of Race Programs
 at All Big Tracks.
ONLY ORAL BETTING

New York, May 30--Belmont Park was the scene today of the return of horseracing in New York State. After three years of anxious waiting the so-called sport of kings has been re- established in the Empire State amid the salvos of brass brands. the cheers of thousands of rehabilitateu devotees and the staccato like hoofbeats of the thoroughbreds.
 Ever since the Hughes bills banish- ed the bookmakers and turned the famous tracks into aerodomes and city lots, the master spirits of the turf have kept those same bills under a microscope in an effort to find slight hole in the parchment. The eager scrutiny was at last rewarded The rift in the lute, so to speak. came when the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court handed down it's famous decision in the Shane case. Hardly was the ink dry on the verdict which declared oral betting within the law, and that the directors were relieved of all personal liability unless they had guilty knowledge of law violation, when an army of men were sent out to the old tracks to refurnish them and put them in shape for a grand opening.
 Acting upon the written warning of Governor SulZer that he would hold them personally responsible for any violation of the law the sherffs of Queens and Nassau counties were on hand today with a large following of deputies. As the grandstand at Bel mont Park is in Queens county and the track is in Nassau the presence of this double relay of sleuths is ac- counted for.
 Of course the old betting ring did not look the same. There were no stands, booths nor blackboards nor any audible voice proclaiming odds on favorites Whatever betting was done was done strictly under the hat. The new method of wagering seems to be carried on chiefly by the wink of the eye, practice which promises to de- velop in a large section of the inhab itants of New York, a habit which, though it steers them clear of the an- ti-betting law, is apt to run them afoul of the statute Truly the lot of the tout is a hard one which ever you may take it.
 The meeting, which opened today, is under the auspices of the Westches- ter Racing Association. It will con tinue till July ,, with racing three times week, making total of eigh- teen racing days. The next opening will be a Jamaica, the home of the Metropolitan Jockey Club, on July ' and will continue up to the end of the month. The schedule calls for twelve racing days at this track. The third opening will be in August, at Sara toga. This meeting will continue up to September 1. But here the racing will be continuous, involving twenty five racing days.
 The revival of racing in New York was made possible, after the loophole offered in the Shane case, by liberal subscriptions from prominent turf men as August Belmont, Harry Payne Whitney, Thomas F. Ryan, H. K. Knapp, John Sanford, H. T. Oxnard, James Butler, Joseph F .Widener, Ri- chard T. Wilson, Charles Kohler, George D. Widener, Frederick John sno and many others.
 During the eighteen days racing at Belmont Park most of the old stakes will be revived. Some of the more famous ones are The Metropolitan Brooklyn and Suburban Handicaps