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SATURDAYS SHOWING AT SARATOGA. Saratoga. X. Y.. August 10. With an attendance shown bv -the count at the gate to be ahead of the ! corresponding Saturday two years ago, before the Hart-Agnew law went .Into effect., the hold of racing .011 the pleasure-loving public was amply proved at Saratoga Saturday. It was essentially a holiday gathering, and the "regular" was so hopelessly in the. minority as to be unnoticed amid the throngs of visitors froin all" parts of the country who had gathered to. . watch the races as a spectacle and not as ; a gambling proisitlon. "1 think we have the highest class aud most representative crowd ever assembled in a race track grandstand," said R, T. Wilson, Jr.. president of the Saratoga Association. The greatest iiopes of the association have been r exceeded bv the way the general public lias responded I to our efforts to make raciug attractive as an outdoor snort,"
