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MR BELMONT IS CONFIDENT JOCKEY CLUB CHAIBMAN OPTIMISTIC OVEE FUTUBE OF NEW YOBK BACING Efforts for Upbuilding of the Sport in Empire State Stateto to Be Prosecuted with Eenewed Vigor Test Cases Coming to Trial Soon Now iork November 31 In announcing at the I mtod limits meeting on Tuesday tlmt stakes to run muter the auspices of the Westehcstcr Racing Association at Relmont Park next season will I e tM ncd in January August Belmont expressed coufi donee in the future of the turf In this state and de ohiied tliiil the Jotkey Club will carry on the fight l r oxislonce with increased vigor Mr Belmont w nihl not outline the policy to be pursued but it is vHI understood that the courts soon will be asked to pass upon the iew laws which went into effect in Soptfinlter 1 and compelled the tracks to close ilieir temporarilyIt gates temporarily It is expected that civil suits instituted by mlnor Sl stockholders in the Westchester Kacing Associa ¬ tion and the Coney Island Jockey Club to determine iho constitutionality of the directors liability law will come to trial in a few weeks as the Jockey Clubs attorneys are busy preparing for them These cases will be the lirst move by the racing iiilorrsts to find out whore they stand and if favora ¬ ble decisions are handed down it is said there will IN a test of the Iwftkniaking with or without writ Itig law to be brought about in some way not yet dlMlosed dlMlosedit it has been pointed out by the racing interests that betting is not a crime according to the rulings nf the Court of Appeals and with that as basis for ioton it is said the track owners expect to secure sum freedom of action They say if betting on the election went on without interference by the author ¬ ities hotting of a similar nature on horse races amiot be interfered with At the United Hunts meeting on Tuesday there was speculation of a iriviile nature among friends No money was passed no odds tfenV displayed and Flu 1 etlIiBr ras iouductod w iuletlv that Sheriff Foster of Nassau County was stumped In his effort to secure tangible ovidewo The prices published in the newspapers wore compiled by handicappcrs men who reduce the chances of the horses to a set of figures In short there was no visible violation of the laws icisMd by the legislature last spring
