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WILL NOT REDUCE MONTREAL PURSES. "Will Pay the Thousand-dollar Tax and Give Good Meetings," Says Club Official. The Montreal Jockey Club will not reduce 1tn purses because of the tliousand-dollar-day tax. "The club from year to year have added money te their overnight events and stakes and will not now reduce them," says Secretary William Northey. "We will pay the ,000 tax and give equally as good meetings as at any time since the club was inaugurated," said Major McBrlde, vice-president of the Dorval Club, who also sees no likelihood that the purses at the lakeside track will be reduced. A tax of 00 per day on the half-milers will be survived by most of these, as it means less than ,000 for the fourteen days of sport. With this amount going out, none of the smaller tracks will be in line for large dividends, but few, if any, of them are likely to close down because of It. The half-milers declared they couldnt stand the increase in purses which the Horsemens Association demanded last season, but with one exception they granted the increases and stayed in business, the purse at the lakeside track will be reduced. Montreal Herald.
