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JOCKEY CLUB AND ASCOT. SHORN OF ALL ITS FESTIVITIES.
EPSOM LEFT FOR DECISION.
The Jockey Club last month decided that racing should continue and that there was no reason to reverse their decision of last September that racing should be carried out where local con- ditions permit and the feeling of the locality is not averay from the meeting being held. The social side of Ascot is to be curtailed. The advisability of limit ing races to mornings will be considered
The preponderating feeling was that to abandon racing would inflict enormous losses on towns and places wholly de pendent on the sport, and would mean almost ruin to borse breeders. Lord Vil liers stated that there had never be any intention on the part of the King to attend Ascot.
The nesting was held at Lord Ilerhy's house, Stratford-place. The following were the decisions regarding Ascot and Epsom':--
ASCOT,
Royal enclosure to be closed, No luncheon tentu
No special trains.
Social olemens to be entirely eliminated. Advisability of racing ending before. Huncheon-to-be considered
ZPROM. Decision to be left to the stewards, with full power to apply for the abandonment of the meeting.
Bubsequently the Stewards of the
THE DERBY QUESTION. Admiral Sir Fedworth Meux wrote **I-am opposed to the abolition of the Derby for thres reasons;
“It would be unjust to the owners of ain, Wh Unfair to the south-country racing public.
our It would greatly encourago enemies.
It might be said of all meetings
distinguished ifs they were likelf to be
of visitors th dulness niid thef this of itself alone was a circumstance which would put an end to a great mak of the face meetings to which they were could not go on unless they had plenty accustomed. The ge-money meetings of spectators, and he thought it might be regarded as almost certain that tint
He thought the Ascot is a rather different proposition would not be the case. from Epsom The best horses in the were more likely to become bankrupt world and the prettiest women are to be than not.
He ventured to think that there was scen on the royal benth. We racing men
Non-racing men, only ons tost which could be applied to go to see the horses.
"If they such as Lord Curzon, Lord Rob.r the whole question of racing,
Mr. Cust, go to lock were prepared to admit that this was a Cecil, and at the women. And very good judges too, guilty businces and should be suspended The incomparable beauty of English during the war, it was open to them to women is the real original cause of the do so. They might ruin countless desery envy and hatred of this country that having and usedworking people by doing so. but the question betere them and before been growing for many years in Ger
the country was this: Did the holding any lost soldiers and sailors would be of race meetings in any way impede the disappointed at being denied the pos eficient carrying on of the war! He was ability of cheering Friar Marcus (willing to abide by that test. If in any King's horse) victors in the Derby and way racing impeded the efficient carryin reading details of the contest. Most of on of the war, he quite admitted that at the Derby horses owned by members of every risk, and even with the cerainty the Jockey Club are bad ones. Mine cer of throwing all who were employed in tainly is, and by voting against the Derby racing and in breeding stables on the owners of bad horses would be gainers, for Princo of Maks National Fund, it ought
to be sauc.. Juta. en daleged the ro race, no forfeits.'
sad aobody, he ventured to think, would allego it.
Should peace not be in sight by Juza I hope to bear that the usual fashionible crowds are conspicuous by their ubiepos. But to stop Ascot races now in March on the chance of a temporary disaster in June would be absurd, for any race met ing can
Lord Durham said the abandonment of racing would be nothing short of a national calamity.
REASONS AGAINST RACING.
Ascot inecting stated that in view of the notice annulled at a few hours not go on as it had done in the past.
altered conditions under which it wras evident the Ascot meeting would have to take place they are considering whether it will be found practical to hold the saceting or not.
The following is the official report of the meeting issued by the Jockey Club:
Captain Greer (steward) was in the chair, and there were also present:-Lord Wolverton and Lord Villiers (stewards). and Colonel E. W. Baird, Sir W. Bass. Sir E. Cassel, Mr. H. Chaplin, Lord Coventry, Lord Churchill, Lord Derby, the Duke of Devonshire, Lord Downe Lord Dunraven, Lord Durham, Lord Falmouth, Mr. H. W. Fitzwilliam, Lord Hamilton of Dalzell, Lord Harewood, IMPERIAL MINERAL WATER Co., Mr. Arthur James, Sir R. W. R. Jardine, Captain Laing, Mr. F. W. Lambton, Mr. J. M. Larnach, Lord Lonsdale, Sir C. Methows, Mr. R. A. Oswald, Sir Ernest Paget, Lord Penrhyn, Lord Rosebery, Mr. Leopold de Rothschild, Sir E. Bent, Lord Betton, Mr. G. D. Smith, and Sir 3. Thursby.
The secretary read the following tele gram from the Duke of Portland:
"I am going to see my brother and many men from hore. They leave, I he lieve, at once for the war. Please explain my absence from the meeting.'
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By appointment to the Imperial Honsebole of Japan, Officially Recommended by thi Hodical Collages of The Emperial Universities
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The Duke of Richmond wrote in favour Lord of the continuance of racing. Ilchester also favoured continuance, sug gesting, however, the elimination of the Epsom Summer and Ascut meetings. Mr. Leonard Brassy gave the opinion that a full racing programme would inflict last ing injury on the credit of the turf.
CAPTAIN GREER AND ABANDONMENT. The Chairman said:-
no
GERMAN INGENUITY.
PRINZEITEL FREIDRICH'S WIRELESS KITES.
The ingenuity of the officers of the Prinz Eitel Frederick was praised to-day (says a Newport News dispatch of March
the former hostages of the converted 13th to the New York World) by one of craiser, Capt. W. J. King of the Aberdeen barque Inrercne, sunk by the Eitel off tho Brazilian coast.
"Do you know what they did with their They Woll, I'll tell you. wireless? rigged up an eight-foot-kite, used the thinly drawn wire of Lord Thompson's sounding unchine, made this-fast to the kie and attached to it the wireless receiver. Then every night they would cond up this kite and catch every bit of wireless that was going. Their wireless could send only 900 miles, but by the use of this kite arrangement they could hear up to 2500 mites,
The wireless news that was picked up in this way was written out-in German. and pub up on a bulletin board. In that way we heard all about the forcing of the Dardanelles, the fire on board the Touraine and other current news
These kites had to be flown against the wind, and or sending them up the course of the ship had to be altered, so as to bring the wind ahead.
COMMANDER A FINE MAN.
Mr. Lambton aid that racing should
They lost sixteen of These kites during Lord Kitchener had pointed out that it the time. I was on board, that being duo was must dieult to get munitions of to the wind suddenly shifting and tho were behindhand, and kites tumbling down into the water. War. should have a most anxious time in the Bat they had material enough on board cris's which was coming upon us. Every body knew, and probably everybody had to make as many more as they wanted.
"Discipline? Why it was the most. read in The Times of the condition of the Port of Sunderland, where there were perfect thing you can imagine, but strict hundreds of men refusing to work or There were some of a boat's crew that idling, although there was an immense got a bole er two of liquor from one of The fact must be fairly faced that it amount of Government work waiting to the prizes before they aank her. They got The same state of theirs, all right. But I'll say for officers racing wore abandoned it meant the aban-be dealt with thore. donment for ut entirely indefinite period affairs obtained on the Clyde, What and men, not one of them ever gave so of those industries intimately connected example were the stewards of the Jockey much as a black look at any of us-I with racing. That of the breeding of Club going to set to those people? The thorough-bred horses was the most impor- trade unions of England, the democracy mean the prisoners they had taken. tant. He was convinced that the cass of England, were being asked to work
"The Commander is one of the finest tion of racing for two years would break while the Jockey Club was saying, "We
are not going to give up our racing. men I ever met, But he is all business. every breeder of bloodstock in Great Bri
What, he asked, would bo the newer of When six of my crew refused to sign & tain and Ireland who was dependent on the proceeds of his stud for his incomo, those people when they were asked to parole which provided that the signers It would be, Why abould we would not engage in any hostile act and their employees, chiefly steady, work elderly married meir quite unfitted for work- Why should we not have our holi-
them in confinement and placed a guard any other form of employment, would be day! He thought it was a most danging Germany or her allies, he put absolutely deprived of their livelihood. gorous mistake to continue racing as over their quartera,
Another important industry entirely before
Mr. F. Lambton moved the following One of my men who wouldn't sign is dependent on racing was that of training.
That this meeting requests an American-that is, he was born in If racing were stopped for an indoune resolution; period it was obvious that the business the stewards of the Jockey Clab to Ameries, but had lived in England some of the men who trained horses to race abandon all races at the Newmarket time. He is Oliver Bell, one of the ap- Craven, Spring, and July Meetings, prentices. The others who refused to must stop with it.
The total abandonment of racing for except the Two Thousand Guineas and sign are Chief Officer L. W. Howard of Liverpool, Second Mate William Barron an indefinite period might, through the the One Thousand Guineas
There being no eccondor to Mr. Lamhof Ireland, Trd Mate W. H. Mithic of dislocation and ruin of so much deren- dont on it, and on which it depended, ton's proposition it was not put to the England, and Alexander Dudfield and J. mean the abandonment of racing for ever, meeting..
Lord Wolverton fully I believe that, on the whole, iv would|
shared the Mr. Arthur James said that through the MacKarney, both English appren- be better to suspend racing for a time, responsibility of the views which had Russian Ambassador he had received a
**I signed the parole, but with a especially the holding of the large already been expressed and which would message from Petrograd that racing.
more important meetings. The be put before the meeting by Lord would take place in Russia this season proviso-one I wrote in by which I am M. Jean free to command ships that may carry with the exception of Warsaw, smaller meetings might or might not Valliers.
in France contraband of war. follow their example. I am aware that Lord Villiers cutlined the negotiations Joubert also said that
But I don't know as I ever will com I expressed a contrary and perhaps imma which had taken place regarding the societies, broeders, owners, and sportsmen
to mand another ship. I've been following ture opinion last autumn, but now, after Epsom stand hospital, which would not attached the greatest importance.
tho sea for forty years, and it has no the lapse of several months it seems to me be utilised during the spring mesting or racing Keeping on in England the situation has undergone a complete Derby wook, and said he strongly resented Lord Coventry, in order to act in a
the stewards tinuity with the proceedings which had change. We were then only at the begin the implies reflection on
contained in letters which had been jub been held before, moved that the club ning of the great war.
the decision "It is impossible, I believe, for any man lished as to the continuance of racing. saw no reason to revers to indicate the stage we have reached now, Thore was nothing to prevent such mest arrived at by the Jockey Club at their
Epsom
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The resolution was agreed to with one ing saps the vitality, weare wrecks life to the nation which it is impossible gave stwards a very wide discretion to destroys-leads to deadly lung diseases to estimate. That point, I feet, is ozolake i consideration the reelings of dissentient
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The secretary read a statement from the! Duke of Portland, which first expressed pleasure that the wounded in the Epsom hospital were not to be moved and con- tinued:
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as to the course we should adopt now upon the course which was pursued in this country in previous wars is absolute ly futile.
Considering, then, the magnituds of the struggle, I hold that nothing should take place at this time which might possibly distract the attention or the ener gies of the nation from the one supreme object in view, and to the attainment of this object it does not seem to me that BEER.ance of racing is likely to con-
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ployment. Ho repudiated the insinuu tions which had been roads against the sport of the "wall-to-do," and said that if racing waro carried on it would be cntikdy in the interests of those who depended on it for a living and to protect bere-breeding.
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tices.
used me well. Now I think I will be quit of it. I've been in a typhoon with every mass overside, and I've been in West Indian hurricanes, drifting on a lea. shore and with all fires washed out.
"I've commanded a ship which had al of her masts standing at twenty minutes to 4 o'clock, and have seen that same ship with nothing left above her "pper works but a stump of the mizzen at five
minutes 10.4.
was
Another vessel I commanded STILL faunk by a trawler in the North Sea, and we had, not more than seven minutes to abandon. I was Captain of the Ameri- can full-rigged ship Srences when sho parted her cables in a heavy gule in Valparaiso and was driven ashore. Then came this German cruiser, and my last ship, the Interese, went to the bottom.
IN GERMANY. STATEMENT BY A RELEASED PRISONER.
It is stated that some twenty Japanese
Oh, yes, we knew pretty well where civiliana are still detained in Germany,
According to the Tatoto among the we were all the time. he replied to a passengers arriving at Yokohama from question asking if any of the prisoners Europe by the N.Y.K. steamer Kitano were aware of where the Bitel was tak
aru, was a Japanese cireus rider named ing them. "But for this information we Matsugaro Sumida, sixty years of age, were largely indebted to Capt. Kichne of stewards announced that there had never who was imprisoned by the German the Frye. Being an American, the was besa any intention of issuing tickers this authorities at Hanover on September 9th treated as a neutral and with marked year for the royal enclosure at Ascot, fast and who was set free early this year. consideration. He and his family had which would be closed. No luncheon
Interviewed, Mr. Sumida said, in 1875, the best state-room on the ship, and a
His cleagues felt, however, that some modifications were
desirable.
The
tents would be permitted, nor would
special trains be run. The social element he went to Siberia, and thence to Austria, special steward to attend them. While would therefore be entirely eliminated. Italy, France and Germany to earn his the German officers would not volunteer any information to is as to where the The stewards were also authorized to state living. For about forty years he has that his Majesty never had any intention resided in Berlin Hamburg and other ship was going, they told him and he told of attending the mosting. The rewards cities in Germany, where he has been us. of the Ascot morting had also under conving performances with various com siderating at such an hour is would with a number of other Japanese, was the advisability of commencing panies. On the outbreak of the war, he. seized by the German authorities at Han- ensure its conclusion before luncheo
SINGAPORE CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE.
THE TRADE OF THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
"Parliament in the past has deliber ately and prudently entrusted the control and organisation of this vast business to the Jockey Club, and there is no prospect of its desiring to interefere now unless in the totally incredible event of the clubs insisting on the unhampered, continumice of racing in opposition to the needs of national defence.
With regard to Epsom, the stewards of over and imprisoned. He was forced to I feel sure that the stewards and the the Jockey Club felt that that was a work very hard each day, from 5 am local managers of race meetings will pay matter best left to the stewards of the till about midnight, receiving only two due regard to two particular considera psom meeting, which could well judge meals a day-breakfast and a meal at tions by which they may be affected-th the progress of events, it being always mid-day. Early this year he was released.
At the annual meeting of Singapore understood that should they feel they At the time there were some twenty limitations which may be placed on railway trafic by the needs of the public ought to apply for permission to abatton Japanese, the majority of them physi Chamber of Commerce, the Hon. Mr. C. service and the difficulty which may exist the niceling on public grounds they had cians, 2,000 French, 1,500 British and a W. Darbishire, the Presideat, in the in some cases in supplying an adequate full power to do so. police force. Nor do I doubt that they Lord Churchill, on behalf of the Ascot number of Russian prisoners-of-war at course of a long epeoch, said trade was in Hanover. Having no money to return a much better state than might hays been will consider the expediency according to stewards, endorsed what had been said.
home, he fk up the work of a pedlar, expected. varying circumstances of closing or of
Referring to export trade, he said: limiting particular ringe er enclosure, Lord Rosebery acknowledged there were carrying and other articles, for
"The figures surprised me, for trade ta as in cases where they find it desirable of two sides to the question. There was which he was granted a licence by the
Copra ross from 3,750 or very little reducing the facilities for the sale of large section of the community who German authorities, because he had been the west of Suez has not fallen off at all, intoxicants.
thought that a fog ef gloom ought to residing in Germany for over forty years to 18,000 tons. The imports of course "Subject to these conditions, I trust reign over the country, that all a muse and was a naturalized German On 10 different, but the returns are cow that in particular the meetings at meats should be suppressed, and that March 3rd he managed to reach Mar improving and inward cargo figures for Epsom, Ascot, and Goodwood, which British people should walk about hanging sellles, where, through the help of the January and February are only soven per supply tests of form for all ages, will be their beads because they happened to be Japanese Consul, he embarked on the cent less than in 1914. held("Hear, hear -though in engaged in a gigantic vas on behalf of Kitano-maru for home. A
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different atmosphere from the customary, liberty. That was a school with which
A feature of the year was the continued Ruccess of the Bubber Branch of the Chum
It may enfely be assumed that the orgies the members of the club could not po ITALY AND INTERVENTION,ber, and the Singapore market is becom
He entirely
of fashion and extravagance which are eibly identify themselves. so painfully dreaded by some simple ad to discriminate between Epson
REGARDED AS "INEVITABLE minded letter-writers are not likely to be and Ascot and other race meetings,
BUT NOT IMMEDIATE." witnessed on any racecourse while the except in this way that they were very war lasts. On the point of sentiment and much better than other race meetings in propriety 1 may remind the stowards the mattor of the horses competing. The Fenico correspondent of the New that many people not directly interested They were the two best meetings of the Fork Herald declares that the interven in coursing observed with pleasure that year, and it was for that reason he pre- tion of Italy in the war is inevitables, but
ing notably more important,
The Hon. Mr. C. W. Darbishire was re-elected chairman and the Hon. Mr. E D. Hewan vice-chairman
The other night at dinner in West Phil- OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE, the Grand Duke Nicholas ran a dog in sumed that the sporting eraties or non-is not imminent. He learns from an unadelphia a little girl surprised her the Waterloo Cup, and I understand that sporting critics wished to put an end to impeachable source that the Government mother by saying, not stuck on this SOLE AGENTE :
the trotting races, which in Russia play them. To exclude Epsom and Ascot would has taken measures allowing of the re bread." Margie," said her mother re- a far larger part on the fold of sport be exactly as if the authorities were to quisitioning of all Italian merchantmen provingly you want to cut that slang
to, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree: than bore, have duly taken place since they may continue to play any press in bonic waters. All the famous pictures out. That's a peach of a way of cor- war began, while there is no present intention of dropping the regular sum at your theatre, but you must expressly in the Rome museus have been packed recting the child, remarked the father.
just wanted to pat her wise." the exclude the works of Shakespeare from up, ready to be taken to a placa of safety I know, replied the mother, "but I mer Taco meetings throughout
your repertory." Empire
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