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NOTHING DECISIVE AS YET. ; I JOCKEY CLUB IS EXPECTED TO SAY f YEA OR NAY TODAY. i I Empire City People Want Murphy for Jutlfle , and Dade for Starter Rushing 1 Things at the Track. I Now York, .Tuly 2.". There was no move, made today by either side in the Empire City matter, lint it Is saiil lint the list or otticials, the outline of the program and other details oC tlie meeting 5 will lie presented to tlie Jockey Club stewards tomorrow for tlieir approval. There is a general belief that there will he no further squabble and that the meeting will he run off according to sehedule, providing the conditions wliieli the Empire City people will present to the Jockey Cluh an. agreeable. General Manager Winn has put a large force at work at tin? track to shape the plant up for the meeting, and thinks that he ran have it ready by the date set for the opening August .". The new field stand is well under way and work on improving the track will begin tomorrow. While tlie names of the otlieials, such as stewards, judges and starter have not been given out, Mr. Winn is getting his personal staff together. Secretary Lyman J. Davis of the new Louisville Jockey Club, and Will Shelley, arrived here this afternoon to artist him in preparations for the meeting. It is wild on good authority that Joseph A. Murphy and A. 15. Dade have been offered the positions of presiding judge and starter respectively and that they will accept with the approval of the Jockey Club. Messrs. Murphy and Dade, it is understood, will confer with Mr. I.elmout tomorrow in regard to it. W. C. Vreeland lias declined to serve a- seeond judge. . Mr. Winn said tonight that lie does not apprehend any further delay and stands ready to run the meeting according to all the reasonable rules and regulations of the Jockey Club. There will be no reduction in the rates of admission, which will be the same as at other tracks, for grandstand and .50 for the field stand. It was intimated today that the minimum purse would be 00 and that the purees would range from that value upward. It is loo late to get out a stake program, but this will be overcome by giving liberal money to handicaps and condition races. There may be a hitch over the purse values, as according to the Jockey Clubs unwritten rules no purse of less than 00 is offered at any of the New York tracks at this season of the year. Manager Winn said that he already had a large number of applications for stall room and apprehended no trouble in getting racing material. A careful canvass at Hie local track today, however, failed to reveal the names of any owners who would race there, though, of course, there is possibility that many such refrained from expressing them-rclves until it is known absolutely that no trouble will come to them. In the meantime shipments to Saratoga are going on and the association there has been compiled to look for outside stalls, all those at the track being tilled. Only a few of the big stables have left for Saratoga as yet, but they will be leaving the latter pari of the week and the first of next in great numbers. W. . Scully shipped his horses today, while th Newcastle Stable and the horses of James Fits bunions will be snipped tonight. Reports from Saratoga are that the track is in superb condition and those owners already there may work tin ir horses as fast as they care to. Buffalo, N. Y., July Si. Arthur Elrod and W. Canipau are representing the Empire City Club at Fort Erie and are offering to take horses oil" tlie car.-: on their arrival in New York. K. ITlterback and II. McCarthy have arranged to leave with their horses for the Yonkers track tomorrow night. W. Woods, L. Smith, D. Austin and P. Head are among the jockeys who will go from here to ride at Yonkers. Foxhall I. Kerne, son of James It. Kccno, also a member of the Jockey Club and interested with bis father in the ownership of the famous Cast lei on Stud, arrived In Chicago yesterday morning to participate in tlie polo games at Onwontsia. Mr. Kccno, when asked by Daily Racing Form for an expression of bis views on the efforts of the Empire City Trotting Club to gain the Jockey Clubs sanction to a running meeting at Yonkers, said: "I would prefer not to be quoted in the matter. 1 have been busy with other things lately and have not followed the situation closely enough to give any enlightenment on the subject."
