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EMPIRE CITY PURSES ARE ALLURING. New York Owners, However, Arc Slow About Announcing Their Intentions. Xew York, August :!. Tlie program books for the first six ""days of the Yonkers meeting, which will open one week from today and continue until August ::o, were distributed at Drighton Beach this afternoon by assistant secretary Harry White. The conditions of the races were scanned with interest by the horsemen and the big purses offered created a lot of favorable comment. The feature for the opening day will be the Empire City Handicap with ,000 added. Other features that will be decided through the following week are the Mount Vernon Handicap, the Bronx-ville Handicap, the Chappaqua Handicap, the Tucka-hoe Handicap and the Clark Memorial Handicap. From .,500 to ,000 is the added money in all the features, and the dally purses range from 00 to ,000 in added money. Efforts to ascertain the intentions of many local horsemen, who have not yet shipped to Saratoga nor engaged stable acommodations there, have been without results. They are not inclined to announce it if they intend to race at tlie Empire City track. One owner of a big string of selling platers remarked: "Its eighteen days at Empire City and an indefinite number of years ahead at the Joekey Club." The layers are also in a quandary over the situation. One of them remarked: "It would be very easy for Cavanagh to Hag any of us without attracting any attention. There just wouldnt be enough positions to go around and we would be left out in the cold." Buffalo, X". , August :!. Several horsemen racing here have announced their intention of shipping to Empire City track. Among them are W. M. Kyan, owner of Cock Sure and N"athan Straus. Jockeys Cherry and L. Smith will ride there.
