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PRESIDENT PHIL DWYERS STURDY STAND Veteran Net To Be Frightened by Legal Persecution at Governor Hughes Dictation President Phil Dwycr of the Prooklyn Jinkey riub will not weaken before persecution is the Cumv Island people have done He sold today when askiil if there would be any change iu the Brooklyn pro ¬ gram gramNone None H will race out its program I intind to hare the law enforced at my track but if any persons take chances they must suffer the consi quences I do not mean that I will hold a club over anybodys head for I do not believe in such a fiolicv I intend to conduct a meeting strictly with ¬ in the law and I have offered liberal stakes and Purses for the horsemen As far as betting is con corned I shall Issue orders to my patrons that tho law must not be violated But as far as bookmaking is concerned let me say that there are no bookmakers any more There arc exbookmakers WH Tisit the tracks and bet among thvinsclves but they conduct busiiifss in KIHII a way that it is almost impossible to ilrtect violations jf tho law I believe that any man who accepts t cash bet and records it should In arrested and punished to the full extent of the law If I should catch anybody doing snob a tiling ou my track I would liuvo him arrested and then bar him out outNobody Nobody cares to be Indicted 1 ut if they think it is necessary to Indict me for conducting a race meet ¬ ing on a track licensed foy the state It cannot be helped In Mich a case liwill fight and fight hard 1 ani willing to lose money for the next two years lu keeping the Gravesend track open for I iin not want to see racing killed It Is a grand Sporr which affords men thf pleasure of outdoor exereihf aud a chance to speculate on races that are remark ¬ ably free from Jobbery I believe that In time thrV will he a reaction in favor of the sport and that persons who are now trying to kill the guiuu will fiallzc tljeir mistake Mr Dwycr wns indicted nearly twenty years ago as a result of Uiis light with Peter De iLaey but JliidKc Gaynor threw the case out of court The veteran turfman has always been a game fighter and from what he says at present he docs not Intend to quit under lire The lireThe field inclosurc at Shocpshead Bay will be closed iu future and so will all of the other field stands at the other tracks Most of the violations of the betting law have occurred within these in closures the race track men srty There will be racing at Belniont Park Jamaica and Aqueduct ac ¬ cording to schedule but under no such arrangement as will prevail at Sheypshead Bay BayMembers Members of the Metropolitan Turf Association who were seen yesterday about the probable effect of the resolution adopted by the Coney Island Jockey Club prohibiting all betting did not seem to think the present turf situation a very bright one Sonic said asking that their names be not quoted that the resolution seemed a great hardship for it might mean that they must keep away from the Sheeps liead Bay course during the eleven days racing fearing that if they attend the meeting as mere lookers on they may be accused of making wagers The wagersThe absence of say one hundred members of the Metropolitan Turf Association assuming1 that so many have been regular attendants at the tracks would mean also that about five hundred mun form ¬ erly employed by them will not be seen at the course and this would mean a loss of from 1200 to 1800 each day to the Coney Island Jockey Club This is an imjK rtant item and would pay about sixty per cent of the purses of the overnight races The absence of six hundred regular attendants would be felt at the bar the restaurant In the purchase of programs and of supplementary programs as the tissue sheets with the latest scratches and names of the jockeys are now called and which are sold to the public immediately after each race for use in the race to come
