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NO LOSS AT EMPIRE CITY. The Empire City meetini: did not result in financial loss, according to President James Butler. There we:c DO profit II either, but Mr. Butler says that docs Hot matter. The fact that horsemen received all thai uas coming to them and that racing was kept alive for file uenefil of many persons who depend upon the sport for a livelihood reaeeta credit opon Mr. Butler and his associates, turfmen say. The authorities of Westchester County enforced the law to the letter, yet al no time were they compelled to liiMke an arrest. Empire City therefore has shown conclusively that It can provide racing without dis astrous results and that Mr. Butler has demonstrated his power ill tiie racing world. It is predicted that Mr. Butler will play an Impartant part in the rehabilitation of the sport and thai he will prove a rateable member of the governing body of the lurf when a thorough reorganization takes place. It seam* to 1h accepted as probable that there will never a gala be racing at Sheepshead Bay. Grareaend ami Brighton Beach. The property owned by these association- N valuable for real state purposes and may be rat up into building lots in the near fatare. If racing is renamed next year it is predicted thai Aouedoct. Belmont park. Jamaica. Empire City and Saratoga will monopolize the time between April 15 and November 15. — New York Sun.
