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JOCKEY CLUB EXPLAINS ATTITUDE. Yonkers Dates Approved Only in Deference to the Courts Orders. New York, August 2. Horsemen at Brighton Beach today had little to say as to the Empire City meeting. Saratoga will be the destination of all that can afford it. The work of improvement goes on steadily at the Yonkers track. A boat has been, ; i 1 , chartered to transport horses free of cost from the Brighton track to Yonkers Sunday morning. In their communication to the Empire City Trotting Club the stewards make it very plain that the approval of dates for the Yonkers track was forced on them, as the following paragraph of the letter of approval shows: "As stated in our formal communication, in the course we have adopted we are acting in obedience to and out of respect to the decision of the court, although we are informed that said decision is not in accordance with the opinion of the Court of Appeals as to the purpose for which the present racing law was enacted, and we have great solicitude that the holding of this meeting will not be in the best interests of racing." The proof sheets of the program submitted to the .Tockey Club did not conform with the rules and regulations of the club, and it was requested that they be changed so that overnight races for three-year-olds of less than a mile should he limited to not more than one each day, and the amount of added money should be at least as great as indicated by the regulations of the Jockey Club. Manager Wimi says that both of these regulations will be observed, and the amount of added money will not be les than 1907.sh,000 a day. The application of the Kmpire City club for the services of the Pinkerton agency was met by the reply that the Jockey Club did not control this agency, and that no rule or regulation existed requiring the agency. The stewards, however, interposed no objection to the employment of the Pinkerton agency in policing the grounds. Buffalo, X. Y., August. 2. While his name was among those submitted to the Jockey Club for approval as presiding judge at Empire City track. Judge Price says lie has never been asked to serve at that meeting and that there is no possibility of his doing so. "My contract at Fort Erie," said lie, "would not permit of it were I inclined to do so."
