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DETERMINED TO LIVE UP TO LAW. Management of Brooklyn Jockey Club Means Business and Will Follow Court Decisions, • New York. June 7. — Joseph Dean, who was shown-the gate at Gr.ivesend Saturday hy the Plnkertons. was Formerly a clerk in the employ of a prumiueiit bookmaker. The action takeu in Deans ease gives evidence that the Brooklyn Jockey Club nitinagi -mint proposes to enforce the provisions of the llart-Agmw law .s interpreted by the courts to the letter. Dean was plainly told that under no conditions and to do race track in this state would hi he again ad-mlUed. The cause for this drastic action waV the assertion made by one of the detectives that Dean had been guilty of a breach of the betting statute, and that the stewards deemed him a menace to the best interests of the sport. It was said that Dean had been detected accepting money for a liet offered. Whether he had registered the wager .the track police weie unable to say. but. deeming his actions as overstepping the lines laid down by the courts on the betting laws, it was decided to act before the new law was violated. "We intend to enforce the law rigidly." said one of the racing stewards today. "The Jockey Club lias always stood ill the past for law and order ami It docs not. at this late day. intend to change it* methods of conducting racing under its jurisdiction. If visitors to the track cannot live up to the re qiiircmcnts the stewards would much rather have them n main outside tile gate. We intend to see that the law Is obeyed in spirit as well as the letter. "Oral bets under the courts decision are per missildc. but there must be no registration of the wagers made. Any man who accepts money and makes a record of a lift does so at his own peril and BBS take the consequences of his act. The racing authorities are working in harmoney with the police in this matter, but. even independent of the sin-ill and his deputies, we intend to prevent any violation of the law inside of the race track gates." It appears that he fare the Gravesend ineeling opened Ml. Dwver sent official word to every layer that the slightest violation of the law would resull in p. rmanciit banishment from all of the New Yolk tracks. "II is legal to accept oral wagers but they cannot I*- recorded and no money can pass before a race." It is said tl at sonic of the plain clothes detectives wl o have been on daty at the track went the round-trying to Induce some of the layers to accept cash tracers, but were unsuccessful. "II" th.ngs can go along sow witliont friction. said a hading bookmaker, "racing will gradually become more popular. Persons who cannot obey the law an entitled to no sympathy when they find t li in ■ I v • - barred at all the tracks. There Is no reason why anybody should try to operate in defiance of the authorities. The Jockey Club means business ami offenders will be dealt with summarily if caught." When asked if tin- field would be opened at Graves. ml. President Dwyvr said that he was vigorously Ill1 I to such a plan, and as far as his track was concerned the cheap enclosure would not 1m- used at all thi- year, if ever again. This seems to be the liolicy of the other track owners, who hefieve that the present arrangement Is sutliilent to meet the demands of the public. As the Battel stands now it is Impossible for tlK poorer clement to visit tin tracks and make wagers. Only those who can afford the expense are included in the list of patrons. The high admission rates and the total absence of free badges will provide a paving revenue which in time will make it possible to hold racing Ml least tixe days a week. On Thnrsdav the Brooklyn Jockey Club tiok in nearly 0,000. which netted a handsome profit. In a few days more, pcrimps tomorrow. John Oav-anagh will Isgin the dispensing of advance infor-uiation. as in former years, and an effort will be mate to better regulate the personality and operations of layers. The Brooklyn .Tockey Club has not yet made the announcement that there will be four or more days racing each week at Gravesend. for which horsemen and lurf patrons are awaiting with bated breath. Mr. Pwycr is not dissatisfied with the wav things have gone since the horses moved from Belmont laik to the Brooklyn track. The crowd that saw the Brooklyn Handicap inn was as numerous as he expected, anil the attendance Saturday was up to the mark, in spite of unfavorable weather. But Mr. Dwyer does not want 1o be precipitate. It the weather is propitious and the attendance goon on Tuesday he may race cither Wednesday or Friday.
