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Show STATE TURFMEN REVIVE SPORT OF KINGS jus Centers That Once Harbored Crowns of Bquine World Unostentatious Preparing Kor Metropolitan Opening About June 1. KruUonal Sews Service. jMTORK, March 29. Quietly unostentatiously prepara-H8Ns prepara-H8Ns Imvo been made toward BttiUt&. the "sport of kings" in Kqulet little village of Sara-Htece Sara-Htece known throughout the jMijWtlnccca of western racing jKOift warm days of spring jfiWlu army of laborers ready, IHfcil Jo repair the weed-grown iBlerhlnge. Gravesend, Shecps-Kiar.il Shecps-Kiar.il Belmont Park, which Btrtortd the kings and queens Bftktae world and the elite of K:itt tboroughbrcds are in ac-jHnpsnillon ac-jHnpsnillon for the opening of Klroptiltan season about June w,al:o, repair and restitution Hkuf progress for some time. Hm Aqueduct and Empire City jKtack hostles, Tur Heelers, Btflrghlaiii: und Kentucklans, Kjii(ewie engaged In putting' JHeted charges through their iH?fs,-while handlers loll about end, swap yarns anent IHNKiits and failures. Hw& of all these piima facie JBf ot the resumption of the JBdltnci silence and a vacant itb definite news Is sought wi; majnates regarding the Bmbc for tlis coming summer. jjHDjlfcr hEtid, from anions the p'tjift jnU-racc track men rises Bu denial that the sport will jBfn the young and breed among the old." JjAjtid Story of the hawk and JMp?1 parrot, "You pays THP- and lakes "your choice" "Mi? noisy denials of the JB the quiet effectiveness of T, i?Sft 00tl money Is not Kwttwlsed by an untimely MJuose millions are responsl- unmistakable evidences of iWBff: 1' to be seen today. BELM0NTi who Is re- IHPp 13 Ule head of horse JB In Ihltr country; Phil Hc,ncr of Gravesend and 'Kft'j Jiroe Butler, wlio con- JMf.Jw City course, and ?BL J-'pnian. Wl0 hoUlB a KST ,n tne Brighton Beach tlrirtive,mei Eald to be the Tl Ul movement to ine. Port In New York. -K th?lLnn l,,es In the PPfillat division of jOK urt that oral betting lKft'Jmcntous decision was fcfflaw -,vvl,,ch vasscd the MEtPtiZ roecut,n against the ?H3lSilf ?f the leBlslatlon fllKWr I' Under tho Paul 53KwlS,m?,rm?f bettlns will JJBF? wtaout attendant proao- K "f the racing mag- tLonelr intention to . probable that racing will nt once reach the magnitude enjoyed by It 'during the fullsome years preceding 1U07, when over $1,500,000 annually accrued to the various state racing associations In fees; and over $5,-000,000 $5,-000,000 changed hands in the betting ring. Rather, a steady growLh is looked for. s The monetary U'sa to the state through a four-year lapse of interest inter-est in . equine gambols has never been estimated tmd can never Je, accurately. In Saratoga alone ltIs said that millions have been dissipated dissi-pated by the Jlart-Agncw anti-racing law. rpHE famous little watering place I renped a harvest from the annual an-nual meets held within its environs. en-virons. Vast hotels were reared at enormous expense along Its elm-shaded elm-shaded avenues, the municipality expended ex-pended vast sums in improving its natural beauties, and the inhabitants erected great shops to care for the trade that once a year flocked to its streets. With the stoppage of racing realty values fell to a panic figure, shopkeepers shop-keepers wcro bankrupt, the hotels fell into decline and the busy town became a sleepy little village. In the vicinity of other great tracks similar devastation was wrought on a smaller scale, while the farmers, who had been the recipients of over $200,000 annually from the tax on racing, to say nothing of the blooded stock put at their disposal by the breeders, found themselves pressed for funds with which to carry on their state fairs and robbed of their j soles to the owners and handlers of horses. |