THE WAR AND RACING.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13729, 18 March 1915, Page 5

THE WAR AND RACING.

THE JOCKEY CLUB'S DECISION

(Received March 17, 8.10 p.m.) London, March 17

The Duke of Portland wrote a letter to the Jockey Club, urging it to suspend the larger meetings in order not to distract the energies cf the nation from th© supreme object.

Captain. Greer, who presided, said an indefinite stoppage would bankrupt breeders of blood stock, and render idle many thousand employees. Lord Villiers announced that the Royal enclosure at Ascot would be closed, and no special trains would be run. The King had never intended to be present.

Lord Rosebery asked the Club not to identify themselves with the people who wanted fog and gloom to rest over the country, and walk with their heads hanging down because we were engaged in a gigantic war on behalf of liberty. The resolution was carried with one dissentient.