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CURRENT NOTES OF THE TURF. The two-year-old filly Nettie Walcutt has been l purchased by Frazier and Farris. Harry Payne Whitneys good horse rennaut, winner " of the Futurity of 1913, will not be seen under racing silks again, having been retired to the stud 1 at Brookdale Farm in New Jersey. The Laurel meeting thus far has shown the best t racing in the history of the track, and the prospect 1 is that the good showing will be kept up to the : close of the meeting on the last day of the month. The Mens Federation of Louisville has by vote expressed its disapproval of the projected plan for r levying any kind of a tax in Kentucky which could 1 be construed as a "tax on gambling," and instructed - its executive secretary, C. J. Meddis, to j communicate the sentiment of the body to. Senator r Hire Muffaker, chairman of the state tax commission. - , If Mr. A. H. Cosden, for whom trainer "Bill" Garth will display his skill next season, can do as ,. 7 well with the thoroughbreds as in the standard-bred I field, he will not be as long as some of the other rich men who have taken up racing in the United j States in coming to a great measure of success. Mr. Cosden is the owner of The Real Lady, the champion two-year-old trotter, winner of the best f ; stakes in Kentucky, and now holder of a record of 2:0414, made in a race. Francis Nelson in Toronto Globe. The funeral of the late P. J. Millett took place e at Knoxville, Teim., Sunday afternoon from the e Church of the Immaculate Conception, with mcnt in Cavalry Cemetery at the same place. The f pallbeaers included: John J. ODowd, of Cincinnati; Andrews J. Corey, of Covington; G. J. Ashe, Arthur Groves, Mayor John E McMillan, former mayor r ! S. G. Heiskell, Thomas McFarland, Walter McCoy, , ! J. J. Ashe, S. P. Condon, R. H. Gammon, Louis s Vcdder, Judge James F. Baker, Charles M. Mitchell 1 and Professor Brown, all of Knoxville.
