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BETTING OF SMALL MOMENT NOW. Kew York. June 17. — It is a noteworthy fact Unit the absence of so-called hookmflking on the metropolitan race tracks has diminished si eculation until it is merely an issue of small moment. Heavy piav is impossible, plungers are unheard of and racing is remarkably free from anything that borders tcpon scandal. Followers of the turf who abandoned it last vear thinking that the game had lieen killed, are coming back gradually, to find that racing is being rehabilitated. The policy of the Jockey Club to work slowly and to build up the sport from the verv iKdtoin is rapidly bearing fruit It is generally accepted as a sure thing that the value of some of the big stakes such as the Withers Belmont. Tidal. Realization. Spinaway Futurity and others will be greatly reduced after this year, lne lacing associations have learned that ordinary stakes mid overnight events provide attractive sport and more of this sort of racing will be provided in fill lire. __________
