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JOCKEY CLUB ATTITUDE ON LAUREL. H. D. Brown, the race track promoter, announced yesterday that he positively would begin racing at Laurel, Md., on October 2. Brown has sent this information to tlie Canadian and western tracks and has begun to distribute stake books. Tlie track at Laurel is nearly finished at an outlay of 50,000, and is well appointed. It is said on high turf authority that while the Jockey Club, in deference to the Pimlieo management, will not grant an out and out license to Brown, nor horsemen will be placed under the ban for competing for the 00 jnirses at Laurel. It is tlie opinion of leading racing men that Brown should not be handicapped or censured for providing sport in the shape of new-tracks at Laurel and Havana, especially when owners and trainers can get no action In the state of New York. Browns enterprise therefore will meet with tacit approval from the Jockey Club stewards, who will not discipline hoi semen if they go to Lanrel. Furthermore, Brown will operate his Maryland track under the auspices of the Southern Jockey Club, which exercises jurisdiction over the Florida tracks and the new $."00,000 plant in Cuba. Tlie Havana meeting, which opens alniut Deceinlier 1, will be conducted on a big scale. New York Sun.
