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Show RACE TRACK GOERS TAGGED NEXT SEASON NEW YORK, Dec. 23. The World says today: "Evorvbody who wishes to sec racing next season will have to buy a grandstand grand-stand badge or remain outside of the local race tracks There will be no Held stand for the next two years. This has bosn decided upon by the Jockey club stewards. "Tho Jockey club stewards, realizing that they will enter a now era of the turf next seuson, havo determined to build from tho foundation up to establish the spo.rt- In order to build correctly and to keep away from the danger shoals of reform re-form they have ma'do the move. "It wan the men who frequented the SI inclosure that caused tho antl-bctting crusade to develop. Those racegoers, with small salaries and limited tlnanclal accounts, ac-counts, wero badly crippled when they wnt to tho race tracks and lout their money. As a result many families suffered suf-fered Consequently there was an attack ! on race-track gambling which brought I .about tho repeal of tho Percy-Gray bet- ! t!"'AnotVicr feature agreed upon by the magnates Is tho abolishment of complimentary compli-mentary tickets. Next year everybody who attends tho races will have to pay. Tho only exceptions to this rule will bo tho reporters who chronicle the dally racing rac-ing events. I" former years all tho politicians, poli-ticians, great and small, of this city and state were provided with badges." |