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TEN WEEKS OF IDLENESS OR BUSH RACING. Horsemen at Seattle Are .Confronted With This Problem Little Chance for Meeting: at Portland. Seattle, Wash., August 23. With the meeting at the. Meadows nearing an end, there is no loss of Interest In the sport. Rather, the attendance Is larger than It has been at any time during the season. The stand has been well filled, ever day; while the betting ring htm been -jammed! Several of the bookmakers have moved to Butte for the meeting which opened Tuesday. The meeting here will close on September 3, and that at Butte will end September 8, but there will be minor meetings to follow and a numher of horsemen have announced their intention of taking their runners over to Montana. Others will go to Salem and east of the mountains for the bush meetings that will be held immediately after the close of rating here. Anxious eyes are turned toward Portland, and there are ma,ny who wish there will be something doing there. Although there is a good crowd at Portland who believe there is a chance that there will be a meeting, horsemen here do not think It will be possible for any meeting, and the next big racing will be In California In November, Many horsemen, employes, jockeys and others who make their living from the tracks, and do not care to journey over the bush circuits, are wondering how they will fill in the space between the Seattle and California meetings. This was the motive for proposing an extension of five days here, but the stewards came to the conclusion that It was best to let a good thing alone. The meeting has been the most successful in the history of racing in the northwest, and . the stewards considered that It was due the public and outside horsemen to close the meeting as originally announced by the association.
