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WORKING TO RESTORE TENNESSEE RACING. Breeders of State Form Organization and Plan to Revive Sport on Good Basis. I iC I lag!— . By., March S. — May Overton, of Na-h vilie. former presideat of tne Cumberland Part Jockey club and once owner of the famous Hermitage Farm, now the property of William Heist, is here looking at saddle horses. "We are expecting a revival of racing in Tenneaaee." said Mr. liver Ion. "We are creating conditions that will bring it back on a broad and sensible plan that will eliminate the gamblers who destroyed it and will afford no picking- for greedy grafter-, political or otherwise. We are in Tennessee forming a brother-bond of bleeders of ail live stock and we are striv Ing for the Improvement of all breeds. This brother hood will lend its ;, to the restoration of racing with the understanding that the tracks In Tennessee an to l»c owned, not by individuals or close eor-poration- seeking immense profits, but by asaoria tions of spoilsmen not seeking dividends and willing that the profits shall go to tlK upkeep of the tracks and to the horse owner- who make racing possible in tie- farm of t:ik.- and purses."
