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FAEL MEETING, AT YON KERS .PROPOSED. Empire City Racing Association Has Applied for Fifteen Days Following: Belmont Park Meeting. New York. July 27. It is almost a certainty that there will be an extension of racing dates here after the fall meeting at Belmont Park. The Empire City Itacing Association alreadv has made application for a fifteen-day meeting to follow tho Belmont Park meeting. And this proposed fall meeting at the Yonkers course may not be all that will be offered. It conies from a good source that both Aqueduct and Jamaica may have short fall dates, and such being granted, the expected and much craved for meetings around New York may run into October. At tho meeting of the stewards Tuesday afternoon the usual allotment of dates for the Maryland circuit was made, but no mention was made of any application or action on such a request for any of the New York tracks. This, however, docs not mean that further dates for New York are not being considered. There will not be another meeting of the stewards uutil some time during the coming meeting at Saratoga, by which time it will have been fully decided just what is wanted. Aqueduct and Jamaica May Ask for Dates. The one thing that is certain is that the Empire City Itacing Association has made application for the lust two weeks in September. It was learned yesterday that the Metropolitan Jockey Club had about decided to follow tho lead of Empire City and make application for dates at Aqueduct, while the only thing that was holding back the Queens County Jockey Club was a doubt whether the grandstand roof could be put into proper repair. However, us the best racing weather of the year, and the most settled of all, comes in the autumn, it is taken for granted that, whether or not the needed improvements at Aqueduct are made, the place will be in good enough condition, and there will be less chance of u wetting under a leaky roof than during the spring meeting. The real demand for a more extended racing season in New York is now added to, through the fact that there will be no racing in Canada in September and October. It was evident at Belmont Park last fall that New Yorkers were eager for the sport, for the best crowds of the year were in attendance after the return of the summer vacationers. And then, just when the patrons were well warmed up for more the scene was shifted down to Maryland. The fact that Maryland tracks are able to offer better purses will not serve as an argument that there should be no racing in New York. Many owners prefer to stay around here and race for the smaller purses and stakes rather than ship so far away from home as to make it inconvenient for them to see their liorses run. There has been a clamor from the public for fall dates, and all that now is necessary is for the racing associations and the owners of stables to give the public sport that is wanted.
