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HOPES FOR RESUMPTION IN CALIFORNIA. New York, May 10. Upon his arrival here from California, Thomas II. Williams, president of the New California Jockey Club, was welcomed by a party of old-time friends. Including Philip J. Dwyer, president of the Brooklyn and Queens County Jockey Clubs; Andrew Miller and John G. Follansbee, stewards of the Jockey Club; John B. McDonald. Price McKinney, Thomas Welsh, Simeon Walton and William Carton of St. Louis. Mr. Williams will remain east for a week attending to business and private affairs. In regard to the racing situation in California, Mr. Williams said: "Merchants and men of high standing in the social and industrial world hope for a resumption of racing in California. They are sanguine that the members of the Legislature will realize that a great injury to all industries on the Pacific slope has resided from recent legislation. In addition to the obliteration of the thoroughbred Industry, millions of dollars invested In other fields have been iiracti-cally wiped out. Racing men have always been law-abiding citizens, and I believe the outlook for racing in my state to lie good." James Butler. Price McKinney, Philip. J. Dwyer, Thomas II. Williams and John G. Follansbee will make up a party to i: to Louisville for the running of the Kentucky Derby Saturday. Nearly thirty years have elapsed since Mr. Dwyer saw a Kentucky Derby. In 1SSS2 he started Runny-mode, one of the fastest and gamost horses of bis day and on that eventful occasion the Dwyer Brothers crack was defeated a short head by Apollo, a sterling race horse running in the colors of Morris and Patton.
