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FORT ERIE MEETING CALLED OFF. Racing Abandoned for Present and New Dates to Be Applied for by Niagara Racing Association. Buffalo, N. Y., August 2.— The Niagara Racing Association officials decided today to call off the Fort Erie meeting for the present. This was not done until after Superintendent Brow lee of the Grand Trunk Railway had sent word that there was no prospect for the furnishing of train service from Buffalo to the Fort Erie track, at the same time advising the association to postpone the .meeting until October. The announcement was not unexpected and many horsemen, bookmakers and others had already left for Saratoga, New York and other points. • • Just when the postponed Fort Erie meeting will be held cannot now Ik foretold. New dates will be asked for by the Niagara Racing Association and probably will be granted when the Canadian Racing Associations meet at Hamilton August 10. The meeting may be held following that at Hamilton and preceding the second meeting at Windsor, when six days — August 22-27 — will l e available, or it may go over until October. Much dissatisfaction has been expressed because the meeting was not given on the dates originally scheduled, it lsing contended that the ferry service and the Canadiau Pacific Railroad could have handled the crowds. Several of the horsemen will ship their stables to Saratoga, among Idea Will Inn Shields and J. W. Falter. The latter traced Tokakm on the metropolitan circuit a few seasons back and is anxious to re tarn to the east. Mr. Shields has gathered a useful siring during the last two —oaths P. T. China will appear before the Caaadlaa Racing Associations with affidavits in an attempt to obtain a reversal of the ruling recently announced against him by Jadges Price and Nelson. He wiil attack the credlbiUty of the testimony against him.
