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HARLEM RACE TRACK IS DEMOLISHED The Harlem race track has recently tieen so dis mantled as to have Ix-en practically put out of existence for racing punioses. stables and fences have been leveled and the grandstand, except a small se.tn.ii reserved for the convenience of the golf players, has been lorn down. An adjoining cemetery association is negotiating for forty-three neres of tin gnuml in the former enclosure. Altogether imli.at.oiis ;,re that, like the more famous Chicago I act, Washington i»ark. Harlem will presently lie nothing |,ut a memory in connection with racing. The Inauguration of racing at the Harlem track took pla.-e July 30. 1S5»4. Wm. M. Martin was the president. Joseph A. Murphv. secretarv; M. Lewis Clark, presiding judge ami Richard Dwyer. starter. The card •■alle«| f„r m-vcu raeea ami they were won In succession by Dulihard. King Mac. Geraldine. Si-ter Mary. Lily of the West. Senator Irby and Kvanatus Afterwards it was the scene of maiiv memorable ra.es. The last race at the track was run Saturday. September •_!. MM and was won by Thomas II. Ryans Floetwing. The next spring the Harlem J«M-key Club announced its usual list of slake r.m- in preparation for lWfci racing, but notice fn.m tin- states attorney thtit hookmakiiig would be rigorously pnec-utod. led to the abandon limit of 11. intention to race that year. So far as the Harlem track was concerned, the cessation proved to In- f..r all time.
