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THE "SECOND CIRCUIT" A WRECK. The wiping out of the Narragansett Park meeting through political troubles at Providence and the Inability of the Montreal Jockey Club to have its track ready for racing this year, together with the doubt attending the holding of n fall meeting at Salem leaves the "second circuit" of the east a decided wreck. If the spring meeting of twenty-one days which is to open at Salem tomorrow proves a success, it is practically certain that the fall dates, September 1 to 15. will be occupied. But this leaves gaps between July 21, the ending of the spring meeting and September 1, tlie beginning of the fall meeting at the new track and between September 15, the closing at Salem, and November 10. the opening at Bennings. The Kenilworth Park meeting ends July 7, so the people and horses now at Buffalo will have to move over to Fort Erie, which opens July 10; go to Salem for the last fourteen days or to the New York city tracks. A few of them might be accommodated at Latonia, where the meeting Is certain to be extended after July 5. Not all of them can be taken care of at Fort Erie, for Windsor will close on July 7, and the horses from that track will naturally have first call on the stable room. There have been no definite announcements as to dates In the west and south. It Is presumed that Latonia will continue up to the opening of the Douglas Park track in Louisville, which may be about September 1. In October It Is likely that there will be another meeting at Latonia. Memphis and Nashville will, it is believed, hold fall meetings. There will be no clashing of dates in New Orleans, though the division of dates between" City Park and the Fair Grounds lias not been agreed upon. The Fort Erie meeting will end August 22. This will be followed by short meetings at Windsor, Hamilton and Toronto, the season In the north closing ou Septemlier 29. No announcements have been made as to Los Angeles. The troubles of the Ascot Park people with the politicians and city ofllcials have not, insofar as is known, been settled. However, tlie presumption is that they will race about 100 days, beginning Thanksgiving Day. President Williams says the Oakland meeting will open as usual.
