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SARATOGA MEETING WILL CLOSE TOMORROW. The most successful meeting In the history of the Saratoga Racing Association will end tomorrow. There will be no racing In the east on Friday. That day" will be occupied largely in the transportation of men and horses to New York for the opening at Sheepshead Bay oh Saturday. The attendance at Saratoga has been greater day in and day out, than ever before. This means, of course, that the gate receipts have been larger and that the racetrack stockholders will receive increased dividends. The racing has been of an excellent quality, although in the events for the older horses there has been a general lack of high class a fault that has been manifest all the year. The honesty of the sport another indisputable feature all season has enabled a majority of the backers to beat the books. A majority of the bookmakers have lost money on the meeting. "One of the leading layers," says the New York Sun, "declares that in spite of the large crowds the money in the ring was scarce; that a book was idoing big business to handle ,S00 to a race on a Saturday, while on other days a play of 1906.sh00 to a race was remarkable. This same bookmaker declared that BUI Cowen had won a fortune at laying the prices this year but that he had not cleaned up any great amount of money at this meeting. Frank Tyler, who has been operating on the usual extensive scale, is a winneris he has been all the year, and there are a few others. But the rank and fileof bookmakers are either about even or have lost heavily. Tim Payne, for instance, dropped so much money here in the last two weeks that he quit cold. Others have done the same, which goes to show that the bookmakers do not have the cinch with the alleged quilllble public which antagonists of racing try to make out. "The Mets, long since defunct, bobbed up last week in a way that should result in prompt action by the powers that be. It was in the Altuda case that the Mets no longer recognized, took it upon themselves to declare all bets off whereas John G. Cavanagh, the master of the ring, suggested that bets made on Altuda should be refunded and that all other wagers should stand. This conflict of authority should not exist. The turf governors, who turned down- the Mets at Belmont Park a year ago last spring, established an open ring, over which John G. Cavanagh was placed with authority to govern matters in the best interests of racing. This move was one of the greatest benefits that the racing public ever enjoyed, for it meant better protection and more of it for the patrons of the sport. At this late day, therefore, it seems rather inconsistent to have the discredited Mets assuming the right to decide anything in an opening, when such a fair, impartial judge as Cavanagh Is really the one to make an absolute and exclusive ruling in such instances."
