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WILL RACE AT CHANTILLY NEXT SUNDAY. No More Racing at Xongchamps This Season Bookmakers Did Not Incite the Riot. The French Government has ordered that tliene lie no more racing at Lougchamps this year. The program for the coming Sunday has been transierrcd to Chantillv. This course isiar enough away from Paris, to prevent the attendance of the .class of .people who engaged in the rioting at Lougchamps lust Stfnday The transfer was made on the advice of M. Lcpine, prefect of police, who informed M. Rnau. minister of agriculture, that since the lawless element had found, through the experiences of last Sunday, that the betting booths can be robbed with case under such a contlltloi Of excitement as prevailed then, it would be next to impossible lo prevent for the a recurrence until stronger structures bousing of the uiutuel machines and the cashiers yan be erected,, i In some cablegrams It had been hinted that certain bookmakers, disgruntled at the operation of Ihe mutuels, through which the government derives great revenue, had taken advantage or the leaving of the horses at the post in the Free Handicap last Sunday to precipitate a riot. The latest advices from Paris, however, scout this idea. Nothing to support it has been shown the government investigation. The Frenchmen who were engaged in the rioting of last Sunday are of a class and temperament that need no suggestions from bookmakers to incite a riot. Such demonstrations against the. starter and even the Jockeys are frequent, only the race-goers have refrained heretofore from burning buildings. Starts are made in France with the aid of a barrier and from a standstill, just as they are in New York. Bets are made on the track, not with bookmakers, but through the medium of the "Paris Mutuels." Favorites receive the bulk of the backing, and whenever the first choice receives a bad send-off, and is beaten thereby, the crowd feels ugly enough to lynch the starter. The jockey riding a beaten favorite often has to run for shelter after .dismounting.
