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A CONTRAST THAT IS STRIKING jsday that a special specialmeeting meeting of the English Jockey Club had been called to consider the continuance of racing this spring and throughout the duration of the war Lord Derby was reported as declaring that the races would be held as usual It is a splendid tribute to the stable character of the Englishman that not even a great war which bus threatened his very hearthstone could cans him to postpone bis fixed siyortiivr events Two of the reasons advanced for the main ¬ tenance of racing are the support of thousands of persons employed and the welfare of the horse bred ing interests whcli Is so necessary to the commer ¬ cial progress as well as the military defence of tin nation nationWhat What a contrast to this conservatism of spirit was the ruthless overthrow of racing with all its reflex depressions in the United States The x ampl of KnglamK from a national as Well a sportsnnmly point of view cannit fail to have i salutary effect upon ourselves and the outlook is for that and other reasons most encouraging on both sides of the Atlantic Rider and Driver New York
