view raw text
ENGLISH RACING IN STRONG HANDS When you come to think of it there is a lot In tlie suggestion of an English writer that the per ¬ sons best qualified to pas on the proper conduct of racing during the war or at any other time for that matter were the members of the Jockey dull themselves A review of the personalities who were concerned In the unanimous decision arrived at by that body last mouth helped him to reach that conclusion conclusionThirtyfour Thirtyfour members attended and four others wrote in approval of the policy of the club One of the thirtyeight was Lord Rosebery a former Prime Minister of England n most admirable For ¬ eign Secretary the author of books which would have made their mark had they not eoirie from the hand of so distinguished a personage Going down the list In alphabetical order lie found Mr Ildnry Chaplin who has claims to be regarded as a statesman Lord Crewe who represents the Government in the Upper Houe and is a dis ¬ tinguished man of letters Lord Derby Is an ex Ministcr and surely a politician of eminence Xo one has accused the Duke of Devonshire of lacking taste or sense Lord Dunravtii is author of suc ¬ cessful Iwoks and a constructive statesman Lord Downe a distinguished soldier Lord Durham es ¬ sentially a man of affairs Lord Hamilton of Dal zell OHO whose opinions are recognized as entitled to the utmost respect Sir Ernest Pa get Chairman of the Midland Railway Sir Samuel Scott a poli ¬ tician and banker Sir Berkeley Sheffield formerly a diplomat now director of a great railway com ¬ pany Mr G D Smith a banker Sir John Thiirsby president of a Chamber of Cotninorce and at the head of Important commercial undertakings undertakingsMen Men of this calibre might be fairly expected to deal with a subject of which they had social knowledge more correctly than people who are 1111 aiijuainted with it Francis Nelson in Toronto Globe
