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BENNETT TALKS OF EASTERN RACING. Cincinnati, O., September IS. George C. Bennett, the Memphis turfman and bookmaker, was in the city yesterday en route to his home in Tennessee. Mr. Bennett was in the east all summer, and in speaking of the racing on the New York tracks said: "Its been a pretty strenuous session for the bookmakers, aud the winners are few and far between. My stable has had some luck. I have a good colt in Ethon, and I think that he ran his last two races a bit short. The trainers baby the good ones occasionally. The toughest game was at Saratoga. There was a lot of money In sight, but only three horses were backed to a race, and in the great majority of instances one of the three .would cash. The ouly book I am interested In now is that being made by Jimmy Duckworth. "The two-year-olds out east this year are a mighty good lot. It is pretty hard to say which is the best, as there is little difference between a number of them. Salvidere or De Mund might be the right guesses and the latter may prove that he is the better. He certainly has a powerful flight of speed. "I am going to Memphis now to look at my crops and my twenty-one yearlings, and then I shall go back to try and get even." 1
