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TALK OF RACE MEETING FOR BUFFALO. Local Business Men May Conduct Racing in Connection with County "Fairs. Buffalo, N. Y., July 18. Inspired by the success of the Niagara Racing Associations recent meeting at Fort Erie, there is some talk of holding a race meeting in Buffalo or in one of the suburbs of this city next month. Buffalo loves racing, and there are a few local business men who would attempt to conduct racing in connection with one of the conventions or county fairs next month. There has been talk of a meeting at Columbia Park, which is situated just at the outskirts of Buffalo, but this seems to have been abandoned, temporarily, at least, and it is said that Grant Hugh Browne, who built the Devonshire track at Windsor, has a plan to build a course near Depcw, about seven miles from this city, and hold a meeting. Mr. Browne was in Buffalo recently looking the ground over, but since that time nothing has been heard from him. Another set of promoters, these from Buffalo, are trying to capitalize and run a meeting on another track already in existence only a few miles from Buffalo. If any of the propositions materialize, the oral system of betting will be employed. This is the system in vogue on the New York tracks. It is said to be legal and has been successful. It may be a Ion? tin-e before another meeting for the thoroughbreds is held at Fort Eri or any of the ether Canadian tracks. The leccnt order-in-council, made by the Canadian Parliament, prohibits betting en races during thj war and for six mouths following the close of it. Just how long the war will last is a question, but it seems unlikely, in view of tho extra six months tacked on to the order-in-council, that there will be. a meeting in Canada next year. There has been some talk to the effect thf.t the Canadian Parliament might modify the order and permit the tracks to hold one, meeting each next vear, but nothing of an official or even semi-official nature has been given out. Canada needs the revenue from tho race tracl:3, sc it woitfd not be surprising if a new law regulating racing and betting is passed next winter. It may take the form of cutting down tho track associations profits and diverting more money to tho government.
