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WILL DEPEND ON RACING COMMISSION. Additional information of Governor-elect Whitmans attitude towards racing in New York state is conveyed in tin following press dispatch sent out from White Sulphur Springs. W. Va., under Saturdays date: N interference with borse racing as it is at present conducted in New York state, but a reorganization of the boxing regulations, will be part of the legislative program Governor-elect Whitman will submit to the Legislature when he takes office. This was ascertained here .today, where Mr. Whitman Is spending the week end. He is satisfied, it is said, that the way racing officials .have handled the sport in the last year warrants pursuing tiie policy which has been in operation since racing was resumed. Ho will put the enforcement of the gambling law directly up to the State .Racing Commission, composed of Harry K. Kuapp of New York. John Sanfonl of Amsterdam and James Wadsworth of Geneseo, father or James V. Wadsworth, Jr.. United States Senator-elect from New York. It is, expected that some of the organizations opposed to racing will urge further restrictive legislation, but it can be said that if Jie officials continue to conduct the meetings as they have recently, they will have nothing to fear from the Whitman administration." .
