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NEW PLAN TO TEST CALIFORNIA LAW. Doe- Races Not To Be Used, but Poolrooms Will Be the Basis for Action. San Francisco. Cal., April 22. — The plan of having the Walkor-Otis law tested by arrests for betting on coursing races has been deferred for the present and the test of the law may instead take place at the Sausalito poolrooms. I/ ea! handbooks were pre paring to resume operations on the Pimlico races Saturday, but at the request of Frank Daroux. the Sausalito poolroom magnate, who represented that they might imperil the success of a scheme devised by attorney Henry Acb to circumvent the law until an opportunity had been given for carrying the plan into effect at Sausalito. they will await developments. The test will probably not take place for several weeks. G. 11. Keene will dispose of his horses as rapidly as possible ami join his brother. Jack, in Russia, where the latter is training a public stable of one hundred horses at Moscow. The Keene stable was shipped to Salt Lake today. F. D. Weir and E. W. Heffuer left for New York with their horses, and D. A. Ross stable has departed for Victoria. Handicappcr Martin Nathanson left today for Chicago, via Denver, where he will size up the conditions for the meeting at Overland Park, where he is to be racing secretary. A reitort is current here that Charley Gates. son of the capitalist. John W. Gates, will finance the construction of the proiiosed new track at Tia .1 nana, just across the international boundary from San Diego, for which it is claimed the Mexican authorities have just granted a twenty years betting concession to Clem Creveliug and Harry Brolaski.
