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SANTA ANITA TO REMAIN CLOSED. T. H. Williams Optimistic Over Future of Turf on the Pacific Coast. New York. September 2 i. - •■There will lie plenty of taring in California this winter and of the kind that will appeal to all lovers of the race horse the high class nee boras. The New California Jockey Club will offer big purses and stakes to attract the best horses in the country. As the tiurts have decided that oral belting with a slake bolder is not against the law. our patrons, if they Choose to make wagers, can do so without fear of molestation. The meeting at Oakland will begin Hovel bar 12 and will continue without interruption until well into next spring." In those words Thomas II. Williams, president of the New California Jockey Club, today snake optimistically of feba future o racing in California. He bail recently arrived from the west and was surrounded by a host of friends in the corridor of the Waaaorf-Astoria. ••The courts of California have decided that when two men bet, » third man. who is not interested in the t ransaet ion either directly or indirectly, may act as stakeholder without violating the anti public batting laws. Those decisions have chared 1 1 1 • - lacing atmosphere 0r California. They tell .just what a person may and may not do regarding betting, bookaaaking, gambling, etc As haoknmklng wai abolished he minute the laws prohibiting it wore passed, the Oakland track oMehus insisted on their patrons obeying tin- suusgate of the statute- in spirit as well as in the letier. •The SanUt Anita truck will not spea. Rut the New California Jockey Club will offer in the neigh- barhood of S250.000 to be raced for daring tin- winter meeting, and this sum will be of great benefit to the bleeding industry of the United States, for without in y horsemen cannot purchase yearlings to replenish their stock, anil without wealthy owners to buy, the breeding of thoroughbreds in this eounlry would cease." __
