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NOTES OF THE TURF. There will be racing at Helena. Mont., during the Week of Sept. 25-30, In connection with the State Fair. The minimum purse will be 30. "If New York racing should be revived, Id like to .have a big track at Long Beach," former Senator "Reynolds is quoted as saying. "It wouldnt be a bad scheme to move the stands at the Jamaica track down to the seashore. Then we could have a summer meeting in dead earnest." Trnln service from Spokane to the new track of the Coeur dAlene Fair and Racing Association at Alan, Idaho, will bo provided by the Northern Pacific and the Chilcago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, as well as by an intcrurbau electric line. A thirty-live minute trip from Spokane is assured. New Jersey turfmen are discussing the advisability of holding an extended meeting at Elkwood Park, Long Branch, in September. Some of them advocate a session of ten days, while others believe they could run at least twice that length of time. The plan is to conduct cross-country and flat races with bookraaking and betting prohibited, as was the case at the hunt meeting at Elkwood in July. That affair proved so popular that residents of the famous Jersey summer resort have been clamoring for more. New York Sun.
