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CANADIAN VIEW OF EASTERN CRUSADE The announcement of the Coney Island Jockey Club the richest of American racing associations that the amount of money to be distributed at the two meetings to be held at Sheepshead Bay this year will be 250000 or more taken with the great increases at Belnnmt Park Brooklyn Empire City and Saratoga and the return of Brighton Beach after a season of inaction can only mean that those iu control of organized racing in the State of New York have no doubt that the lean years have passed The continued existence not to say prosperity of the sport is a matter of amazement and chagrin to an element that expected and hoped to see racing destroyed by the measure that was put through the legislature in such sensational fashion two years ago That element would outHerod Herod and go beyond the suppression of betting professionally or individually to the extent of exterminating by process of law all such recreations or occupations as it does not approve Sustained by the incurable prejudice that horse racing is an abomination it would first apply the axe there and attend in turn to golf the theater and other like idle frivolous and wasteful employments of the time and talents of the human race Its aspirations and anticipa ¬ tions reached much farther than these of the pro ¬ moters of the HartAgnew law and the fact that any race course remains in New York that has not closed its gates is at once an inexplicable phenom ¬ enon and a grievous disappointment Toronto Globe
