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RACING PLANS FOR CALIFORNIA. Saratoga, N. Y., August 20. It is understood that, regardless of the outcome of the test of the Walker-Otis anti-betting law. now pending in the higher courts of tlie state, California, will be the scene of racing the coming winter as usual. If the Walker-Otis law Is declared to be unconstitutional, as is contended by the attorneys representing the racing interests, racing will go on under the same conditions that have prevailed for years. If; oa the other hand, the law should be upheld in its essential particulars, it is understood that those In, control of racing on tile coast will resort to the methods under which racing lias liecn successfully conducted in New York state this season. The California law is almost an identical duplication of the Ilart-Agnew law enacted in tills state last year, and the decisions which permit oral betting in New York state will undoubtedly apply to California as well. It is said that in the event of being put to the necessity of carrying on the betting along oral lines, the managements of the two California tracks will work in harmony In establishing tlie new order of things. Their plans, in the event of the adoption of the oral system, include the concentration of their combined efforts at one track, it is understood. The plan as outlined here will be to first open at Oakland and continue at that track until the wet season sets in in December,; then transfer operations to Santa Anita for two months, afterwards going back to Oakland. It is figured that with only one track In operation, there will be such Concentration of patronage that racing may be profitably conducted even with betting greatly curtailed.
