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i i * j . , . j I , , , ; LONGER EASTERN CAMPAIGN REPORT THAT NEW YORK RACING WILL BE EXTENDED IN THE COMING YEAR. May Begin About May 1 and End with Fall Meetings at Belmont Park. Aqueduct and Jamaica Tracks. New York, December 9. — That there will be a much longer racing season in New York state iu 191 than this year is practically assured. Rumor has it the spring meetings will begin about May I, and it will not lie surprising should there lie continuous racing until the middle or end of October. Such is the general feeling and the report from fairly authentic sources. The arguments for a more lengthy season are founded on the facts that the sport on the Maryland tracks is not in the least dependent on New York patronage and that a conflict of spring and autumn dates would not impair the attendance to a marked degree. The closing meeting at Belmont Park this year was attended by excellent patronage aud indicated that racing could have been profitably continued. It is not at all unlikely that there will be autumn meetings each of twelve or fifteen days duration at Belmont Park. Aipieduct and Jamaica In 1910. Before racing is resumed at the Empire City track next season, many improvements will lie necessary, after the uses to which the track was put by the lessees, but many more than the mere returning it to a suitable racing ground for the thoroughbreds are contemplated. Mr. Butler has purchased the property that adjoins the course, and the plot now takes in everything up to the corner of Jerome aud Mount Yernon avenues. Mount Vernon avenue has been paved since the last meeting held by the Empire City Racing Association, and while the extent of the changes and improvements has not yet lieen definitely announced, it is known that the Yonkers track will be elaborately improved.
