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DECIDES TENNESSEE LAW INVALID. Memphis and Nashville Tracks May Open Under Opinion by Judge Palmer. Memphis. Tiaa . .Tune :l. — Mi mphis will resume Its place in the west, -in racing circuit, according to admission made by New Meinpliis Jockey Club Officials today after I ilei i-ion haiided down by .lodge Palaaer in the second criaitaal eowri holding the Polls! anlihe ing law invalid. Nashville can likewise reopen her Hark under Judge Palmers do • isioll. aeeordaag to local opinion, fall meetings for the rtinners are highly pioh.il. le at both tracks to precede the winter meeting- at New Oilcans. An appeal from the lower conrl is to he taken by the people wha have attacked horse racing in Ten ne-soo far several year-, hut a heating in the supreme Court is hardlj wit!. In the possibilities nntil June. BMB. This will permit racing with lielling under the old law iu any part of the State for at least a year. Attorney -Oencral Yeger said that lie had hoped to wocure the opinion in the lower court several weeks ago. so thai an appeal conld he taken to the higher tribunal. He admits that it will he a rear before he can bring the appeal to the atten tlea of the supreme judges. In holding that the act. known as Senate Bill No. f£ contained more than one subject in its caption and was therefore null and void under the statute. Judge Palmer decided that a subsequent act inflicting penalties upon those who encouraged betting on horse races had nothing left to stand on. The indictments against the New Memphis Jockey Cfwb for uiainaining belting on its property during .a matinee of racing in April was therefore ordered .plashed. The knocking out of he antilietting law in the •viurt is the second set hail; in three years. The so «iilled reform element caused I he Kice-Ligon measure to pass lK th houses in the legislature two years age. tmt it was declared unconstitutional, too. I»uisville. Ky., June 3. — There was general rejoicing among turfmen at Churchill Downs when it lieeame known this afternoon that the recently en ;aeted anti racing law in Tennessee had been. Ue- vUir-d unconstitutional..
