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WORTHS COMING MEETING. During the fall meeting of the Worth Joekey Club, October 10 to 26 inclusive, Secretary Hiller will make innovations in the raoing that will please both the public and horsemen. No entrance fee will be charged in purse events, but the fields will be limited to at least fourteen and possibly that number may be reduced to twelve. This move should prove a benefit to lovers of high-class sport, to bookmakers, to form figurers and race followers in general. Long delays at the poet are tedious, especially in the fall when inolement weather ia to be expected and the limiting of the fields will prove a boon to Starter Dwyer. A seriouB complication which now stares the secretary of Worth in the face is, where to stable all the horses that want to race at the new track. There are less than seven hundred stalls at Worth and most of the horsemen now racing at Hawthorne or Harlem want to move their entire stables to Worth. Hawthorne and Harlem are in close proximity to each other and can divide stabling accommodations but aa Worth is some distance from either track the horsemen insist on moving bag and baggage to the new track. "There is but one way out of this situation," aaid Secretary Hiller yesterday, "I want to accommodate all the horsemen but they, will have to bring only horses to Worth that are fit and ready to race. As soon as Manager J. E. Wagner returns to the city I will eonsult him about the running of a special, horse train every morning from Harlem and Hawthorne to Worth." A letter recently received from S. C. Wagner, now at Sheepshead Bay, stated that a number of Western owners had approached him in regard to coming west for the fall meeting and requested that stable room be reserved for them. President John Powers is expected back from Europe, S. C. Wagner from New York and J. E. Wagner from his fishing trip the coming week, and a meeting of the directors will be held to decide "questions of moment for the Worth fall meeting. Bacing will begin promptly at 2 oclock and six races will be carded, with a probability of seven on Saturday.
