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EASTERN RACING CRISIS HAS PASSED. Success of Saratoga Meeting Leads to That Conclusion Officials Tell of Results. Saratoga. N. Y.. August 30. With the 1009 meeting of the Saratoga Association a matter of history, the feeling prevails that the critical point in racing as a sport in New York state has been passed. "The Saratoga Association lias been successful beyond our highest expectations," said President Wilson. "1 think the races here this- year have drawn the highest class crowds that have ever assembled at a race track. The professionals have been almost unnoticed In the crowds of men and women whose only interest in racing is as a sport, and. taken as a sport, they have found it so pleasing that they have come daj- after day, content to watch the struggle without a dollar invested on the result. Not alone from New York City, hut from the west and south we have had visitors who have hitherto had no acquaintance with a race track. We began this meeting with foreboding; we end it in mutual congratulations." Trom a financial standpoint tho meeting has been far above what we expected." said Andrew Miller, treasurer of the association. "We were fully prepared to face a deficit, but instead we are certain that there will be a profit on the meeting itself that may pas all the years expenses of the association." "The attendance this season was. by actual count, fully 50 per cent, ahead of last year," was the report or Assistant Secretary Earlocker. "On some days we even exceeded the gate count of three years ago. under the old laws." "The crowd was unusually large for the final day. Excursion trains and trolleys from a dozen cities within a radius of a hundred miles came In nil morning loaded with passengers, who were taking their last day at the races until next year."
