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1 ; 1 1 i • t ■ , J. E. MADDEN SAYS RACING NECESSARY New York. June 17.— John E. Madden, the Kentucky thoroughbred breeder anil turfman, had the following to say regarding the suggestion made by General Ilaldenian of I-oiiisvillc. Ky.. to the Kentucky State Racing Commission: "England. France, Russia and Italy will look to i us to replenish their breeding farms after the war. Racing is tMMWf to breeding and to stop now in America the horse interests of the whole world would suffer. "Some people in this country might ask that the moving picture shows, baseball and horse shows he closed during the war. They might even want to prohibit ball playing in France and England where our boys take to the American game to , get tlieir minds off that terrible ordeal. In this country baseball and racing are a medicine. Take all the pastimes away from the people and you will drive them insane. "There are no slackers on the race track. Those who are not of the proper age have brothers or sons over there and the revenues from racing are either given to war funds here or sent over there. "I cannot ls-lieve that General Ilahleman or any one in Kentucky will lie a party to the crippling of the horse interests of the world."
