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JOCKEY CLUB WILL FIGHT AGGRESSIVE POLICY TO BE OBSERVED IN THE EAST IN FUTURE. Strenuous Efforts to Be Made to Save Racing by Appeal to the Courts for Relief from Drastic Legislation Recently Enacted. New York. Septemlier 12. — The Associated Press today sent out a dispatch to the effect that the locks J Club has decided upon an aggressive policy la an effort to save horse racing in this state from the t C0c.U of the drastic anti-betting laws passed by the last legislature. The declaration is said to lie based on the authority of recent interviews witii prominent members of the Jockey Club. The turf authorities, according to these announcements, will tight their cause in the courts and will take advantage of every possible vantage point to save the !fir . 000.000 which they have invested in racing iu New York State. An interview with a menilicr of the Jockey Club, published today, sums up the situation as follows: "The Jockey Club stewards intend to fight iu future. Their amiability iu the past has boon accepted on the part of their opponents as a sign of weakness, and as a result racing has been Oppressed. "The stewards have discovered that their submission has been an error. In the past, rather than take full advantage of the courts decisions pertaining to betting, fearful that the enemies of the sport might say they were violating the laws — something the race tracks have never done — the stewards have merely taken the shadow of the substance allowed them by the courts. "It was with a mistaken idea that they were accomplishing sumo good that the race tracks fought the poolrooms for many years. It would have been much better if the Stewards had not made this move. It is beyond their province and jurisdiction to act as guardians of the morals of persons outside the race tracks. The turf would have been better off if they had stuck to their own bailiwick. "It has been the policy of the Jockey Club heretofore to jot matters take their course, as they lid not think it wise to tight the opposing forces. But now they intend to ask the courts for relief. Suiti will be brought at once with this object in view."
