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TELLS PLANS OF NEW HAVANA TRACK. Grant Hugh Browne Gives Further Details of Enterprise Foxhall Keene Slow to Improve. New York, December 14. Grant Hugh Browne, who is much interested in the new sporting enterprise in Havana, says he expects to have the first race run over the new track there on February 15. 1917. "Only for the stipulation in the concession." said Mr. Browne, "we could have been ready very early in January, but the stand is to be built of steel and concrete and that takes time to get the material, hence the delay. AVe are going to have the finest exhibition grounds ever built and there is no reason why we should not, considering the government has the authority to appropriate 00,-000 for exposition buildings and decorations. "Not only will there be an annual exposition, but the enclosure will provide for a mile race course, baseball field and appointments for all other varieties of sport. We. shall begin with baseball sometime in January, and begin racing as soon as possible, but I hardly think it will be before February 15 next. "It is our intention to organize a ruling Jockey Club to be known as the Havana Jockey Club and its members will be made up of prominent Cubans. The system of speculation will be through the mutnels only. I decidedly prefer that system to bookmaking, which is not as well understood in Cuba as the mutuel system. Our track is only ten minutes ride from the center of the city and as soon as we have established racing there, it is our intention to give some stakes and endeavor to attract many of the best horses and owners from this section of the country. The organization will be known as the Havana Agricutural Exposition and Racing Association." Not only has the rule committee of the Jockey Club revised the selling race rule and solved the claiming problem, but the whole book of 171 regulations has been thoroughly dissected and such changes made as are believed to be conducive to the health of the sport. The entire set of rules and the amendments and changes proposed will be published in the next issue of the Racing Calendar, which will be ready for the press, in supplement form, in about ten days. According to rule such proposed changes will have to be published in two editions of the Calendar. The second publication will be in the Jiuaiary number, which may be out late in December or very early in January. After the two publications the Jeckey Club will hold a meeting to pass upon the rule committees propositions, after which the rules adopted will become operative, unless ceitain dates are named for distinctive clauses to become operative. Mr. Foxhall P. Keene, who was injured while hunting in Maryland last week, is not recovering as fast as expected and may be removed to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
