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j J I i J is 1 J J J J J 1 I 1 i 1 ; ! i : i ARMY OFFICERS FAVOR REVIVAL OF RACING. Judge Murphy Receiving Support in His Movement t for Favorable Legislation in Missouri. St. Louis, Mo., November 25. Judge Joseph A. Murphy lias received notice from Lieut. Col. J. F. . Reynolds Laudis, secretary of the National Remount Association, that the semi-annual meeting will be held In Washington next Tuesday. Judge Murphy . a director of the association, a civilliau auxilliary r of the army. Many army officers are directors. The army, face to face with a crisis iu remounts, is s prodding the association to action. Judge Murphy is helping to revive racing at New c Orleans, commencing January 1, and will have introduced . in the coining Legislature a bill to revive a it iu St. Louis and Kansas City. He will go to u Kansas City hi a few days to meet a committee of f business men to present the projiosltlon to them. . The army is declared to be looking to the revival of f racing for the solution of its remount problem. Col. D. S. Stanley, Depot Quartermaster in St. . Louis, who was directed to prepare statistics on remounts, - lias said the revival of thoroughbred breeding . iu Missouri would be of vast value to the army. Col. W. E. Wi.der, commanding Fort Meyer, has s sent this message: "It is greatly to be lamented j that racing In this country- received siieh a terrible 0 blow, as the thoroughbred is the best type of cavalry - horse we have, and the fact that racing was s discontinued forced owners to ship their best mares S abroad, and the breeding of these splendid- animals s has been to a great extent stopped." Br.g. Gen. E. A. Garlington, Inspector General of lf the United States Army, has said: "There is at t present a great scarcity of line horses for cavalry .. service. The ban on horse racing forced a good many . breeders out of business. AH horses bred for1 racing do not turn out to be race horses, and these horses, r in most cases splendid anima.s, went to work for men under the saddle. When the thoroughbred aiid 1 standard-bred are blended, the most useful horse in n the world is produced. The war is going to make a drain on the American horse market. . The horse ... losses of the German and Austrian armies, and of f the Anglo-French-Russian allies, have no doubt been n stupendous from overwork alone. These losses must ;t be made up. An idea of the use of horses may be lt. gained from the fact that England in the first call U for horses took 74,000 for artillery and 50,000 for jr cavalry."
