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MOVEMENT TO AID THE RED CROSS. Kentucky Racing Bodies Asked to Contributo Liberally from Gate . Receipts Next Fall. Lexington, Ky., July 2. Messrs. A. B. Hancock, vice president; Hal Price Headley and T. C. McDowell, directors and Thomas B. Cromwell, secretary, are a committee from the Thoroughbred Horse Association, appointed by President Charles II. Berryman this afternoon, to go to Cincinnati tomorrow evening and propose to General Manager John Hachmeistcr that the Latonia Jockey Club and the Douglas Park Jockey Club donate to the American " Red Cross Association for war uses, twenty-five per cent of the gate receipts at the fall race meeting at those tracks. A similar request is to be made of tho Kentucky Association, which owns the Lexington track and the New Louisville Jockey Club, which owns Churchill Downs. It was the sense of the directors of the Thoroughbred Horse Association, that everything possible should be done by all horsemen and all others interested in racing, for the maintenance of the United States army in the foreign field and the care and relief of this governments soldiers, who may be wounded in battle. The directors of this organization, which lias the welfare of the thoroughbred horse and the turf so much at heart, believe that the request to bo made of the track managers in Kentucky is not an unreasonable request, and they believe it will be gladly complied with. The tracks in the east already have begun a movement for uniform contribution from their receipts. It is expected that the Maryland tracks will also contribute largely to the fund the coming fall.
