Show I I I GLOOMY OUTLOOK FOR RACING MEN MENNow Now New York OcL tAfter two years ara of agitation against race track gamb gambling ling hag In thIs state marked b by the thc pass ago of the drastic bill generally referred to as tho ho Hart Agnew law it remained for the Kings county grand jur jury to write a new chapter in the he crusade toda today when hen there were returned Indictments I against the two big Kings county countr race racetracks racetracks tracks three police pollee officials five fie tori va ato te detectives yes and l wen 13 book bookmakers makers The BrIghton Beach racing association tion was similarly involved last year I but the case failed and action has heretofore been main mainly I against book boole bookmakers makers ot 01 bettors the tho defendants In which proceedings have been general generally 1 ly exonerated by the tho lower courts which heM held that oral orni betting was no crime The first test of those these cases will be made hy by the court of oC appeals appeal thIs week I It was the increase of oral betting I conducted b by the memory brokers broker I that resulted In this latest evidence of Governor Hughes continued activIty I ity and the indictment of the Brook BrookI Brooklyn I lyn n club and the Coney Coner Il Iland l land and Jockey Jocko club charged as corpora ions wIth conspiracy In allowIng bet bot betting botting ting to go on This Involves a number of the most I prominent supporters of racing In inthe the tho States W K Vanderbilt owns a controlling Interest In thio Con Cone Conoy e oy Island Jockey club of which S L Ih Parsons Is presIdent George Pea bod bouly Wetmore and Mr 11 Vanderbilt are the tho F R It Hitchcock treasurer V E B secretary I and Thos II H Smith racing secretary The board of governors Includes also I IJ IJ J Harry Alexander Thomas Hitch Jr E B J Gorman H C Poll F FK FIC I K IC Stevens and J 1 D Wadsworth The police officials for conspiracy on the ground round that hunt they permitted Ba Batrack Buy track to be used on August 20 last I for betting purposes are aro Inspector John G C OBrien who ho is also accused of neglecting his duL duty In failing prop only to supervise the work of lila his sub subordinates ordinates Sergeant Hugh Reynolds and Hugh Meyers loers of Inspect r staff The private detectives are aro Seymour Semour Butler Dutler who was In of tho ho raue rale track force Corce and for two years Jears has litus been a well known figure to La of the sport On Metropolitan tracks and four our of his subordinates II John G Cavanaugh who for yeas has been the tho domInating figuro In the tho I bettIng rings of the tho Metropolitan tracks leads heads the thc list of 25 5 Indicted as bookmakers The list Includes the tho best known In the he coun country try Three police officials arraigned In Inthe Inthe the Brooklyn county court toda today pleaded not guilty and were released on parole It Is expected that the cases will ho he set sel for trial Oct iS 18 There was much gloomy specula speculation tion thon among the tho local followers of rae rac I Ing tonight as to the lie probable of I feet of the tho new crusade During the I present season Beason the Ito new system of betting evolved for fot the tho purpose of evading the law has put ne new life lICe Into the racing game find and the tracks while b by no means as success successful successful ful as tile they were before Governor Hughes signing of the 1 bIll 11 have recovered a measure of their prosperIty and have havo been well patron patronized The betting system used has ln In Involved the tho use of three In inthe I the case of each wager ager one of whom lie tho bettors money while nn an another other registers the transaction and the hue third pays tho th winnet It WOJ sa supposed that thal this tran ran I would be so oo evolved as to I II evade eade the law 1 but ut for weeks county detectives have havo been beon evl dence through which the tho authorities hope to force prosecutions I |