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BUFFALO RACE TRACK PLANS DROPPED Promoter Berger Given Hint That Oral Speculation System Would Meet with Official Action. Buffalo. N. Y.. May 14. — John S. Berger. the Chicago promoter, who has liecn in Buffalo for the past six weeks for the purmise of bnildina: a race track. has abandoned all his plans and left last night for Chicago. "I find that the time is not propitious f„r an enterprise of this kind." said Bergi r. "Labor of the skilled kind, materials and men whose professional standing is of the kind necessary in hamHini; and inaiiKiiratim; a racing enterprise are vvantoil by the government at this time, and there is no room nor encouragement «or a venture of this kind. I am still confident Buffalo is a natural s-x.t for a racing iilant and that the iieople want it. imt for the time lieing my plans are dropped. They are not dead, but will lie capable of resumption after the war." Berger had plans all ready for the transformation of the Hamburg half-mile track into a mile course, and also had o-itions on and plans drawn for proper ties just outside the city limit line at Keuilworth and near La Salle. Mr. Berger had Im-i-ii gion t understand that an aitempt to duidicate the system of oral speculation in use on the metropolitan tracks would meet with official action here. . . a
