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EVEN CHANCE FOR EASTERN RACING. New York. August 2.— According to the official schedule on tile at the Jockey Clubs offices, the Me-troiKilitan lackey Club is stated to race thirty-two 1 davs at Jamaica, from October 10 to November la. Tliis arrangemeut is the result of the pool entered into kf Aqueduct. Jamaica. Brighton and Einpi-e 1 Citv before the present season opened. AoWjauel raced twi-ntv four days and Empi re City, taking WW the Brighton dates, will wind up a twenty six days I session tomorrow. Whether the long mooting at Jamaica will l»e run according to schedule remains to ha • seea. i .... The future of racing after September 1 will be ■ fixed by the track owners and the stewards at the Jockev Club at a session t l e held next week at Saratoga. There is said to l e an even chance for ail I of the tracks to keep open after that date. There is no law against the racing of horses, and it is not a crime to make a la-t. according to eminent legal I authorities who have read carefully the new Agnew Perkins laws. For these reasons the argument is , set forth that there is BO good reason to close Un gates, thereby making is impossible to iBJCCtBI fullv test the reeent legislation at Albany. Friends of raring assert that the directors of tracks cannot be aCM criminally liable for violations of the anti bookmaking laws before a conviction has , been secured, and they further state that it will be . impossible fee gather sufficient evidence to convict I anvbodv of ••making I k with or without writing." • If the courts decide that persons may wager on the . horses at evens or at odds so long as they do not I make a written memorandum of the transaction, it is s argued the race track owners canwd, be prosecuted.
