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WANTS OUTLAW RULES ABOLISHED. Racing Commission to Consider Butlers Demand Says Meeting Will Open August 5. New York, July 20. James W. Wadsworth, chairman of the State Racing Commission, made the announcement at Brighton Beach this afternoon that the commisson would hold a meeting next Tuesday to consider a demand just made upon them by the Empire City Trotting Association to nullify rules six and seven of the Jockey Club rules. He had nothing to say to the press as to the probable action of the commission, but it is rumored that in a conversation at the clubhouse he remarked that he could not see how the commission could comply with this demand. Mr. Wadsworth did say, however, that he is of the opinion that the commission will win its case against the Empire City Association in the Court of Appeals. " I have notified the owners and trainers of trotters and pacers now stabled at the Empire City track that we will want the track after Monday for the proposed running meeting, which will begin Monday, August 5," said James Butler, the chief owner of the plant this afternoon in response to a request for information as to his intentions. "We will then liegin arrangements for our meeting, which will be pulled off acording to schedule in spite of the opposition of the Jockey Club and the obstacles they seek to throw in our way." It appears now that Mr. Butler and his associates are determined to fight the thing through and take the chance of being outlawed, but at the same time absolutely nothing has been made public as to the plans for the meeting, such as the character of the racing, the size of the purses and the officials to be in charge. With the possibility that all persons participating in the meeting will be outlawed, it is rather difficult to see where; the matter for a racing meeting is coming from, as few owners and trainers will care to place themselves on record as opposing the Jockey Club. In the meantime those who have the best interests of racing at heart are very much disturbed over the outcome, fearing that the present fight bodes no good to the future of the sport In New York state. Mi-. Butler professed to have behind him in the fight many influential persons and claims that they will be with him to the finish.
