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JOCKEY CLUB ACTION NEAB EASTERN RACING DATES MAY BE NAMED AT ITS MEETING THIS WEEK. Membership Vacancies May Also Be Filled from Ranks of Newly Arrived Turfmen — Eozball P. Keene Back in New York. New York. February 7. — A meeting of tUe stewards of the Jockey Club will be held on Wednesday a lieu the question of dates for this year will be discussed and possibly decided. It is also probable that the appointments of officials will be made. There is not likely to be any decided changes from the old list. From what can be gathered from semi-official sources there will not he any great changes from the dates of last year, which indi-cates that the opening of the season will be about May 20. 1 hi re may he a meeting of the Jockey Club members on Thursday as there are five vacancies in the meuil ership list, which is limited to fifty, s.une of which bave been open lor three or four year*. So far there has not been a proposal for membership, but as there are many new and in-tlueiitial men joining tlie ranks of thoroughbred enthusiasts, it is mmMc some proposals will be made in the near future. Applications cannot be made for membership. Members can only be chosen through proiwsal hgr Vint? member, seconded by another and, voted upon lw those present at tbe meeting. Among these vlio may be proposed are Senator J. X. Camden. Clfford A. Cochran and James Batter. The latter Jctvcs tomorrow foe an extended trip to Calm lichen, Havana. New Orleans and then to Juarez. Mdxico. in which racing plant lie is one of the principal stockholders. Leo|K ld Kate, who was once the owner of several horses, including Ben I-oyal and Black Chief, and a great advocate of racing for recreation and health. u.is batted today. Be had been a sufferer from liver trouble for many years. Mr. Kahn had been associated with George F. Johnson for nearly thirty ears in the real estate business. Foxhall C. Keene has returned from bis hunting trip in South Carolina. "1 have lived on little else than terrapin, deer, quail and snips for two weeks and never felt better in my life. I saw Andrew Miller two days ago and he has practically recovered from all his ailments." Chattel Hill, who has the four colts belonging *o Mr. Mackav in charge, says they are improving i:i condition every day. Mr. Mackav is asking high prices for them because he believes all are high-class hordes. Baffouilleur ami Esprit-Gaulois are a allied at 5,000 each and both are beautifully brH and flue colts. For Trouble Fete he asks • 10.000 and S0.500 for Mahwah. 1 think every viie will win stakes.* concluded Mr. Hill. The six two-year-olds imported by F. Ambrose Clark will be quart ered at Durlands for the time heing. Mrs. Herman B. Duryea has sent an agent to BaroM to try to bring the horses owned by the Lite Mr. Durvea to this country, including Durbar II. There are hetwen thirty-five and forty in I be band. Special dispensation will have t.j be -ranted bv the French government to enable the elder hcrses to leave that country. The majority ■ •I" the younger horses are MOW in England awaiting shipment. The disposition of them, it they .an lie gotten here, has not yet been settled, but it is intimated the majority will be sold.
