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MEMBERS OF CABINET LEND AID National Secretaries of War and Navy Numbered Among Directors of Race Meet at Benning Washington D C April 22 The Benning rac track will serve again to hold a race meeting not a professional session but one among amateurs On this noted track of the capital where many famous thoroughbreds raced up to 1908 the Inaugural meet ¬ ing of the Washington Riding and Hunt Club will be held on Thursday May 10 and Saturday May IS An invitation will be sent to President Taft to at ¬ tend the day on which the service test a race for horses owned by the United States government and oilicurs of the Army at fourteen miles takes place placeEver Ever since the stringent law against bookinaking on race tracks was passed by Congress in 1908 n rider to the bill providing for the improvement of the road from the capital to Bennlng the track has not been used for racing In order to revive the sport in Washington and to give it to the public shorn of its objectionable features many wellknown men recently formed the Washington Riding Club and heldThere under its direction the meeting will be held There will be seven races each day These will be both on the flat and across country The con ¬ testants will be thoroughbreds hunters polo ponies and cavalry and artillery horses The distance of the races will vary from a quarter of a mile to four ¬ teen miles milesThe The last race on the second day will be the nrin clpal event of the card It will be a race of four ¬ teen miles the longest held in the United States in many years The horses are to be the property of the government or of officers of the Army and Navy and are to be ridden by officers of the Army or Navy in poundsThe uniform and to carry ISO pounds The meeting will be conducted under the rules of the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association The board of directors of the Washington Riding and Hunt Club is made up of prominent Washing tonlans and includes two cabinet officers the head of the United States Army and others hardly less notable in social and political circles Its personnel is as follows Henry T Allen Chairman William Hitt Leonard Wood Hugh Lcgare William P Eno Davis Elkins William Littaucr Preston Gibson Walter Dcnegre Joseph Leitcr J Low Harriman Oliver Ricketson RicketsonF Samuel Ross F P Mitchell Henry T Oxnard Edward Wales George Eustis Ord Preston William C Eustis Montgomery Blair Edward Mitchell Henry Ward Perry Belmont James Buchanan William Hibbs Col Henry May Kldridge Jordan H L Stimson StimsonJ J William Henry J Henri Do Sibour SibourG Edward McLean G Von L Meyer J S Wilkins C K Rockwell L W Thompson Horace II Westcott Mitchell Harrison Frank B McCoy
