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PECULIAR SITUATION OF BRIGHTON BEACH. Claim that Dates Will Be Asked for the Track of Doubtful Sincerity. New York. April it.— The Jockev Club folks refuse to discuss tiie attitude of Brighton Beach, li puzzh -thein. The Brighton Beach plant is a ruin and would cost IS75.O0O to put into condition for racing. Of i otir.-e. it las proven itself unfit for immediate real estate exploitation, ami the land is therefore a present dead one" on Hngenians hands. This fact ami that of the 135,600 of arrears to horsemen from last season makes it a virtual impossibility in a racing way. An official of the .looker tlub said today: "Talk is cheap. I do not believe that there will be even an attempt to race at the Brighton track. They never made an application for dates and did not show any interest in the recent conferences of tin other track owners." Bageiaaal brother-in-law. lawyer Hyde, reiterate* --loudly -his statement that the Brighton Brad! association means to race, will put I lie plant into condition to race and will pay its debts to horse men before next August. Tlie real estate firm of Sooiervilo and Someivillo who have the property in their hands for buildiii-lols. said yesterday that they are still in control of the s-ilc of the grounds and are now considering an offer to go on with the work of cutting it up stii farther The real estate men discredited the idea that racing will lie resumed at the Beach track. This is also the notion of well-informed men con nectcd with the Jockey tlub. Both S. S. Howland and P. J. Dwyer said yesterday that Mr. Kngemai, I ad toM them some time ago that lie did not intend to race again at the track. Wheat the uucstiou of racing dates came up from time to time during ll." past ten weeks representatives of all the other tracks took part in the discus-ions, hut no oil" "• appeared to represent Brighton Beach, no apnlica tioa was made for dates, and this, uilh Mr. Knge mans declarations above alluded to. was given as sufficient reason for all the other track people concluding that Brighton Beach need not be considered. Prominent turf officials seen yesterday said that while there tuav lie no legal reason for refusing to agree that Mr Hvde and his associates should take the month of August and race at the Beach, the Jockey club stewards and the Racing Oommiaslon would lie perfectly instilled in refusing dates to the Brighton Beach course because many horsemen are unable to collect prize money won there last year, and eke state tax of five per cent, is still unpaid. That the Jockey Club stewards have several pre cedents should they insist upon a guarantee fund from the Brighton Beach Association, was men Honed yesterday by a mcnilier of the Jockev Club « li" said that this was done in the early days of the Kenihvorth race track, also a few years ago in n •aerl to 1imlico. before tlie present Maryland Jockey Club was organized, and with one of the panthers, ra«i- tracks which cauie within the scope of the . Jockey Club. Without such a guarantee as would satisfy the Jockey Club stewards the State Racim. Commission would probably refuse Brighton Beach a Urease. The men in control of racing are not disposed lo crowd out Brighton Beach, they say. and are not eager to inaugurate a struggle in the courts or else "here for the barren privilege of maintaining the -port at heavy cost. But they assert that the Brieli ton Beach people got no dates because they said they did not want any and were out of the business.
