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GRAVESEND TRACE ON THE MARKET. New York. October 31. "Is the Gravesend track for sale? was the question put to Philip J. Dwyer. president of the Brooklyn Jockey Club, at the United Hunts races last Saturday. "If anybody wants to buy my hat and clothes Ill sell them," was the reply. "Yes, Gravesend is for sale, if I can get my price, but you can rest assured that the old. track will not go for a song." Mr. Dwyer still believes that racing will come back some of these days and gives as a reason tliat too many persons demand a revival of the sport to allow it to die. A steward of the Jockey Club said to a reporter on Saturday: "No attempt will be made to re-open the big tracks until it has been legally established just what the track owners and the public can do. If the Glttins bill had boon passed by the Legislature this year the tracks might have been opened, but there is no doubt that hundreds of persons would have been arrested for alleged violations of the law. There is open betting on other sports without a protest from the reformers who are opposed to racing, which shows undue prejudice against the turf. But in due time the general public and the lawmakers will look on racing in a different light and then we may secure the desired relief." i
