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DISCUSSES NEW YORK SITUATION. Saratoga, N. Y., August 9. Judge MIrabeau L. Towns of Brooklyn, who is spending a vacation here, when asked for a statement on the racing situation, said: "The Hart-Agnew law, when tested out in court, failed to accomplish the purpose which the enemies of racing had designed, namely, the prohibiting of racing, for the court held that a wager made between two individuals on a race track, or anywhere else, was not a crime. Mr. Hughes, then Governor, It seems, was bound to abolish racing and put through the bill of 1010 which undertook to make not only a corporation or association owning a race track but the, otliclals thereof, liable to be punished for a misdemeanor if a wager was made between any two persons during the meeting, and thus we have a proposition that an officer of a corporation owning a race track may be arrested and punished because a bet has been made between two individuals, although in making the bet the parlies making the wager are guilty of no offense. "It is plain to me that if we could take a vote on tin; question whether racing should be abolished in the State, of New York, the answer would he three to one in favor of the continuation of tins harmless and elevating sport. I lelieve the people think that some means should be devised to keep wealthy men here. Do the people wish, merely at the behest of a few thousand moral fanatics, to drive out of New York State $.-0,000,000 and paralyze all the industries and endeavors that the expenditure of such- a sum would keep alive?"
