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PATRIOTISM OF TURF AND FIELD CLUB OneFifth of Its Entire Membership Is in Active Service in Either Army or Navy That winning the var the one object closest to the heart and mind of all true Americans is the spirit that imbues the racing world of the east could find no better illustration than in the Turf and Field ciub an organization of gentlemen formed in 189 to further the interests of thoroughbred sport and breeding breedingAs As evidence that this club has done and is doing more than its share in active army and navy ser ¬ vice the following list of members thus engaged totaling onefifth of the entire membership is an eloquent testimonial testimonialCapt Capt Charles L Appleton Capt F R Appleton Jr Ensign Harold W Brooks Capt Henry L Bell Maj August Belmont Capt Perry Belmont Maj Tames A Blair Jr Capt R J Bagues Capt Wil ¬ liam Baylis Jr Capt Jeremiah Beall Capt V Scott Cameron Mnj Daniel 31 Coffin Maj Elliot Cowdin Lieut Gifford A Cochran Capt Alexander Smith Cochran Maj E B Cassatt Maj Howard C Dickinson Capt J E Davis Cnpt William C Eustis Lieut H T Fleitmann Lient Waller Farwell II Lieut John R Fell Maj Thomas Hitchcock Lieut R P Hnntington Lieut G B Kip Jr Lieut Edgar W Leonard Capt John G Livingston Lieut Col Bartlett McLennan Capt Ogden Mills Capti Tyler Morse Capt Harry La Montagne Maj Grayson M P Murphy Maj Allan Pinkerton Lient James Park Lieut F G B Roche Capt A G C Sage Ensign Martin Sa portas Capt James B Taller Cnpt R J Turn bull Gen Cornelius Vandorbilt Capt F S von Stade Capt Lewis E Waring and Commodore J K L Ross of Canada CanadaOther Other meml ers engaged in various highly import ¬ ant and meritorious branches of war service are Messrs John McE Bowman of the Food Conserva ¬ tion Bureau in charge of all hotels and restaurants of the country J L Replogle and J Searle Barclay Jr of the War Industries Board F Ambrose Clark connected with the Government Remount Service W II Vaniler Poel E C Potter and Morgan La Montague engaged abroad in Red Cross work workIS IS A UNIQUE ORGANIZATION ORGANIZATIONThe The club is an organization absolutely unique in the annals of the American turf and its attractive home and beautiful grounds at Queens Long Island have had a most interesting and romantic history Organized in 1S95 a powerful social adjunct to rac ¬ ing and numbering among its original Incorporators and members some of the strongest names of the country the club has pursued its career successfully through the recent adverse fortunes of the sport and today finds itself in as strong a position as in its most prosperous days in the first decade of the new century centuryThe The clubhouse is of the old residential Tudor Gothic style of architecture which was in vogue in and around New York especially along the Hudson river more than a century ago It was here that Louis Phillipc of France in 1790 was entertained for some months during his two years period of exile in this country Later the property came into the possession of the Manice family well known in Long Island and New York society for the last century centuryExperts Experts in gardens and floral culture avouch that the grounds contain some of the finest specimens of rare species of Cedars of Lebanon weeping elms etc in this country while the box is un ¬ surpassed in any of the famous English or conti ¬ nental royal gardens The clubhouse and grounds are beautiful in design and in their charm and in ¬ dividuality as it were a bit of old England trans ¬ ferred intact to America AmericaA A glance at the incorporators of the club pub ¬ lished as is customary in the Annual Club Book shows a roster of names seldom equaled by any club in the country Many of these the majority of them ia fact have passed to the great beyond among them J Pierpont Morgan A J Cassatt Frederic Bronson S V R Cruger William Jay J H Beeknian Robert Goelet Nathaniel Thayer Wil ¬ liam G Whitney R D Winthrop John Jacob As tor Theodore A Havemeyer G G Haven Among the original incorporators still active in the world of sport business and society are Francis R Appleton Perry Belmont Royal Phelps Caroll William Astor Chanler John E Cowdin Henry W de Forest Adrian Iselin Jr E D Morgan Ogden Mills E C Potter W H Sands and F K Sturgis SturgisINFLUENCE INFLUENCE FELT AT MORRIS PARK PARKOrganized Organized to encourage an interest in racing among sportsmen of the best class and thereby aid In the development of the American thoroughbred its in ¬ fluence was first felt at Morris Park during the days of the tenancy of that property by the West chester Racing Association In 1905 when Belmont Park was opened the club secured the socalled old Manice House and grounds adjoining as its home homeHon Hon Perry Belmont was the first president of the club but owing to absence abroad relinquished the position some years ago when F K Sturgis was elected to the office Mr Sturgis has for many years been vicechairman of the Jockey Club and is now most active in successfully developing the Breeding Bureau an adjunct of the Jockey Club whose valuable service towards the improvement of the standard of the horse of New York state to the grade useful for army purposes is only now be ¬ ginning to be generally realized by the public and recognized as well by the United States govern ¬ ment Just as there have been only two presidents of the club Francis R Appletou and John E Cowdin have been the only treasurers C E La Mpntagne and Capt John G Livingston the only secretaries and the late Gen Brayton Ives and Henry W Bull the only vicepresidents vicepresidentsThe The present board of governors includes Messrs Francis R Appleton Capt Charles L Appleton 1 Searle Barclay Jr Maj August Belmont Capt Perry Belmont Francis C Bishop llenry W Bull Winihrop Burr Middleton S Burrill John E Cpw din Lawrence L Gillespie Lawrence Greer Madi ¬ son Grant W A Hazard F R Hitchcock Adrian Iselin Jr II K Knapp Capt John G Livingston Alfred B Mackay Andrew Miller Ogden Mills E C Potter John Sanford Joseph S Stevens F K Sturgis William K Vanderbilt Capt F S von Stade Edward F Whitney II P Whitney It T Wilson WilsonThe The executive committee upon whom rests the responsibility for the actual management of the club consists of Messrs J Searle Barclay Jr Henry W Bull Capt John G Livingston Madison Grant and the officers exofficio exofficioA A BULWARK AGAINST CRUSADERS CRUSADERSThe The Turf and Field CJubs membership comprising as it does many of the most prominent men in the financial and social world of New York as well as those better known in the realms of sport has also in a quiet but powerful way furnished a strong bul ¬ wark against the crusade of the fanatical reformers who not long ago unsuccessfully attempted to do away with a national sport and a great industry As illustrative of the interest manifested in the turf by many varied classes of New Yorkers a few representative names of the various members may be selected from the club list listThe The bench is represented by Judges F K Pen dleton Frederic Kernochan and Martin J Keogh the bar by Ambassador James W Gerard John G Agar Allen W Evarts Ellery O Anderson anil Joseph S Auerbach the press by George B M Harvey Robert J Collier and Andrew Miller fi ¬ nance by August Belmont William Woodward C K G Billings Alexander Smith Cochran William du Pont Robert L Gerry II S Black Clarence H Mackay Ogden Mills Charles Steele F K Sturgis Cornelius Vanderbilt W K Vanderbilt and Edward F Whitney The world of sport is of course strongly represented and sport of all kinds from golf and yachting to all kinds of horse racing Among the best known are Harry Payne Whitney Capt Archi ¬ bald Barklie Maj E B Cassatt F Ambrose Clark Foxhall Keene John E Cowdin J P Grace W R Grace Pierre Lorillard Mnj Thomas Hitchcock C Oliver Iselin H K Knapp A K Macomber Lloyd Phoenix E C Potter John Sanford Henry W Slocum W K Vanderbilt Capt F S von Stade Edward M Weld J Temple Gwathmey Maj Grayson M P Murphy Payne Whitney aud R T Wilson Jr H Buck in Rider and Drivec
