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P. J. DWYER RETURNS FROM ABROAD. New York. February 23. Philip J. Dwyer, president of the Brooklyn Jockey Club, who has returned from Europe, after an absence of live -months, savs that he does not know anything about the situation in racing in this country. "I have no horses myself," Mr. Dwyer said, "and I do not expect to buy any. Nor do 1 know what the ollicers of the other race tracks have doue or propose to do about racing for next season. Whether we race or not, it is for the courts to say. We certainly cannot do any good for ourselves or for tho interests of the thoroughbred under the operation of the laws the legislatures of 190S and 1910 saw fit to put on the statute books. We must, in the nature of tilings, secure a favorable interpretation of the constitutional points involved in those laws which we are contesting. "if tlie courts restore the status quo ante helium we will be all right, and having learned a lesson in moderation. I do not think it likelv that the New York tracks will again commit the errors which brought racing into disfavor three years ago. "The Rrooklyn Jockey Club, of which I am president, and which owns the Gravesend race track, has no plans of its. own for 1911. We will do whatever the other tracks decide to do. We belong to the community of eastern tracks and will abide by the will of the majority as we have always done." Mr. Dwyer went abroad for his health, this having been his first trip to Europe in thirty years. He saw a little racing in France and Germany, and met a few American horsemen at Paris and Berlin.
