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DOUGLAS PARKS FREE LIST SUSPENDED Louisville, Ky.. May 21.— General Manager Hachmeister announced yesterday that in conformity with the understanding, under which the race tracks in Kentuckv have undertaken to contribute the princely sum of ijiltiO.OOO to the fund of 00,000 which the racing interests of Kentucky are raising for the Ited Cross, the free list will be suspended so far as the approaching meeting at Douglas Park is concerned. Badges will be issued only to owners and trainers having horses in training at the track and in coiuii tion to race. No badge will be issued to an owner whose stable is in charge of a public trainer until after the uroner ownership has boon established and the horse has taken part in a race at the meeting. There has been a great abuse of the badge privilege in the past in this particular respect. When the representatives of the various race tracks undertook to assume the heavy burden which the contribution of 50.000 for Bed Cross purposes entails, the breeders and others resiKinsible for the plan to raise the big fund agreed that it would lie only fair to expect everylHidy to do his share iu the way of contributing at the gate and that I lie elimination of he free list would help materially. It is felt that BObody, even if accustomed to receiving such courtesies iu the past, will object to doing his bit to hell along such u worthy cause us that of the Ited Cross.
