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GITTINS BILL WILL PASS OPPONENTS OF RACING MEASURE RELUCTANTLY ADMIT LOSS OF VOTES. Now Generally Concede That Measure to Relieve Racing Directors of Personal Liability Will Bo Passed at Albany During: Coming: Week. Albany, X. Y September 22. It is conceded on all sides tbat the Gittins bill, which absolves directors of racing associations from all liability for betting at the tracks, will sail on easy wings through the Assembly when the measure comes up next Thursday. This means the revival of racing and the end for the time being of one of the greatest legislative lights in recent years. Those who appear to have shouldered the responsibility for the opposition to the hill admitted with melancholy today that they had lost votes in the Legislature and that Assemblymen who had opposed the bill have seen a new light during the legislative recess, and are now lined up witli the proponents and backers of a law that will make possible the financing and maintenance of the big tracks of the state. .Senator "Big Tim" Sullivan and Assemblyman William M. Martin of Saratoga, are emphatic in declaring that the bill will pass. .Air. .Martin has a big racing constituency, and the bill means a great deal to his district, where the organization or the Farmers and Merchants Mutual Assistance League has worked hard to insure the passing of the Gittins bill.
