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i i i I I I I i I i , SMALL CHANCE FOR JEROME BILLS. The New York Sun. on the morning following the hearing of the Jerome bills before the joint codes committee of the legislature at Albany said: "Unless Governor Hughes sends a special message to the legislature urging the repeal of the Percy-Gray betting law there isnt a chance of that statute being wiped off the Iwioks this year." In making the argument for the Jockey Club , against the bills Attorney Aueihaeh of New York said the poolrooms were the cause of all the evils of racetrack betting. He contended that it was itn - t possible to stop betting, and that men would bet, • no matter how many laws there were on the , statute IxM.ks to stop it. He said that men who I bet on the races could afford to do so. Mr. Auer bach said that the repeal ot the Percy Gray betting , law would close the racetracks and end the breed ing business in New York and he might have added that it would knock the bottom out of the horse market the country over.
