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GOVERNMENT. MAY USE BENNING TRACK New York, December 18. There is a well-founded rumor in circulation here that the government may take over the old Benning track, .near AYashiugton, for military purposes. Fifty per cent of all the gentlemen riders registered Avitli the National Hunts Association, are iu the service doing active duty, among that number were eight aviators, four of whom have already been killed, including Norman Prince and B. Blake-man Lewis, who were killed in France; A. P. Humphrey, who met his death in Texas and AV. Bisham, who had a fall in Canada which proved fatal.
