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BROWN SUIT COMES TO TRIAL New York June 4 Control over horse racing in the east as exercised by the Jockey Club and the National Steeplechase and Hunts Association was attacked by the Maryland State Fair Association today in the federal court The Maryland Associa ¬ tion asserts the Jockey Club and its associates form a combination in restraint of trade and seek to re ¬ strain the organization from exercising authority over racing anywhere outside of the state of New York YorkThe The suit resulted from the refusal of the Jockey Club to sanction races which the Maryland State Fair Association wish to hold at Laurel Md next October OctoberThe The controversy hinges on the question whether horse racing as conducted by the litigants is a business Frederick Dallam attorney for the Maryland Association declared that his organiza ¬ tion was distinctly for business purposes Its plant he said was worth 00000 it had made money nnd expected those profits to continue continueJoseph Joseph AuerlKich counsel for the Jockey Club replied that his organization was a gentlemans association nnd In no case a concern to make money He Insisted that Its operations did not come under the regulations of the federal nntitnist law lawTo To this contention the Maryland State Fair Asso ¬ ciation answered that while the club as an organi ¬ zation owned no tracks nor horses its mcnil crs owned horses raced them and were stockholders in race tracks
