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Show EMPIRE CITY TRACK STILL 11 DI8CUSSIDN Track May Re Allotted Kali and SprM??; Dates by Trlhuvt NI5W ,ii u inter rogated in ti-port Unit tho appeal against gruntiug a licouso to tho Empire Em-pire City track had been withdrawn, John San ford, a member of the Staio Racing Commission, said: "Nothing new in the Empire City case has transpired in the past two months.' ' The appeal, therefore, will probably go to tho Court, of Appeals, when it begins its sessions in a few weeks, unless tho commission decides to drop tho case nnd admit Jdr. Butler's But-ler's track to the charmed circle without with-out further opposition. Just before the Empire City meeting onded, a well-informed racc-goor asserted assert-ed that ho know positively that the hostility to tho Yonkers track would Dot bo carried to tho extent of having tho Court of Appeals pass upon tho case. The fact that tho meoting proved a big suecess financially, even without tho support of metropolitan horsemen or horses, is likely to go far toward influencing in-fluencing tho governing bodies. That a meoting nt Yonkers could not bo a success becauso of iuadequato facilities was ono of the reasons given for withholding with-holding a licouso in past years, and such an argument would now, of course, sound ridiculous. Even if the State Racing Commission and the Jockey club decide to abandon opposition to tbo Eutlor course, giving it datos on a par with thoso allotted to the other minor tracks on tho regular circuit, trouble may still bo brewing, because tho Empire City Trotting club is unxious to continue' racing in August. Au-gust. Racing at a local track as a rival to the session at Saratoga would certainly cer-tainly mean tho decadenco of the Spa as a racing center. It is this side of tho case that is likely to canso tho Jockey club to exert its influence toward to-ward peace, and tho olive branch nuiy bo in tho form of nn offer to give Empire City spring and fall dates of about tho same duration as thoso allotted al-lotted to Aqueduct and .Jamaica. |