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RECOMMENDS AMENDMENT OF LAW. Ncv York Racing Commission Comments on Deplorable Condition in Annual Report. • Albany. N. Y.. January IV. — The so-called anti-race track gambling law- should lie amended so as t.. relieve directors ami officials of racing assoeia-ii..ie personally from being liable to prosecution for the recording of bets by third persons, says the annual report of lhe state Racing Commission presented to the legislature yesterday. •"lhe state of New York." says the commission. "which should lead in encouraging the breeding of thoroughbred horses, docs nothing in the direction. n the contrary, the anti-racing legislation of liios and Villi has inflicted serious damage to the cause. Il seems remarkable that the only place any cognizance is taken of belting should be upon the race track, and then the penalty visited upon those who 1 ad nothing to do with it. "With the criminal law in respect to gambling ie ii Is, and properly inforeed on and off the race course." Hie report adds, "it may be possible for race I racks io be opened, but not if the otlieer- and directors are to be held criminally liable for violations it the gambling law committed by other per- " * : « ■ 1 1 — : . lhe commission points out that "the existing statin.- have terminated running horse races in this ■ late, and if the present State of affairs shall be long continued the breeding and developing of thoroughbreds will entirely cease ami the thoroughbred will disappear from the [Tnlted States." The report says that since the enactment of the ami race track gambling law- lhe number of thor-ibreds exported to foreign countries ha- been ii emendous. I in- report further said: "Inasmuch a- betting and wagering are not criminal, why, a- a mailer of common fairness, should oihoiais of a rac course be held responsible for the . !, t recording of a |„-t V The matter i one beyond 1 heir coin roL" The commission, composed of .fames w. Wads-worth, chairman; John Sanford and II. K. Knapp. lei lineiid that "whir.- racing i- held under the license of the commission and the association compile- with the law." the directors and Officers shall but be personally liable for violation- resulting from I ttlOg. rrhe bill directed against the publication of bet-iin: imI.Is that failed to pa— the legislature last r ii was re Introdacted yesterday.
