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COMMENT ANENT EASTERN SITUATION. It is confidently believed that bills to relieve the embarrassment of th.- terf in thi- state will be introduced at Albany thi- week. August Belmont. however, -ays the Jockey Club will lake no active parr iu tie proceedings. Friends of racing iu the Legislature are quoted is saying that iu view of th • Curt of Appeal- ,b,i-i,.:i in the Lambrix cose legalizing individual betting amendments to the laws prohibiting "bookmaking without writing and Beak lag racetrack directors crimiaaBs/ liable for Illegal acts Without their knowledge or consent, are in older. The new m, ■a-ur.-s are -aid to have the -110 port of the agricultural societies and the trotting horse men. who held twenty meetings in this state la-t year as against more than a hundred in 1914k The interest shown by army officers in preserving th American breeding industry for remounts is expected to carry weigh! in due time. "There will be no racing 011 the Jockey Club ; tracks this year unless tin so call, ,1 directors liability law is ameaded sad the right of individuals to liet among themselves is clearly established," -aid one ,,f the turf sotOBS. "Chariring that such bettors were guilty of bookmakiag without writing, the police would make wholesale air,-:- with the result thai th.- atteudaace would dwindle to almost nothing and the tr.iks weald lose heavily.- New Vo:-k Sun.
