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TO RESUME ENGLISH RAGING Great Regular Meetings of Next Year Likely to Be Run Many Courses Nearly Ready Winter Sport Probable After Afterthe the Politicians LOVDON EUR November 20 It is now reason ¬ able to hone thai next year racing will be rv iiincd at Kpsoi and Ascot and before the firU Tuesday in January comes round we may expect an announccmiat from the stewards of the Jockey Cliil in accordance with the provision that the sub ¬ stituted races have IKIOII canceled together with the proposed extra meetings and that the regu ¬ lar fixtures are restored restoredOf Of the metropolitan inelosnrcs and we include Windsor Gatwiclc and Lingfield in the category Keiapton Sandown and Hurst Parks have been ex te siely utilized for military puriwses and at the twa firstmentioned the stands may need consider sibe renoraiiqri beforo they are as elegant and com fortalile as In prewar diys but there as at the other centers referred to the nice tracks will be found in as excellent condition as before May 1915 vlKn the gates are once mcra thrown open to the psblic Itacing it Sandown Park could take iilaco at a few days notice Gatwick Windsor and Ling f i Id are in cverv resnect ready for the reception f the public publicIt It is doubtful however whether there will be an arl resumption of raring in the immediate vicinity it IjtiirJon wheru criticism was leveled some time ago hy the nonracing community as to the inter ¬ ference with traveling facilities Kisom of course is i national festiijjl is not included in this cate cateYINXEE YINXEE HACI1JG IS PROBABLE Whiter racing in reasonable volume is probable probableThe The following communication to the Sportsman by Horatio Battomley chainnan of the Racing Emergency Committee tells the tale I taleI am sun you would be interested to know that after several special interviews with Sir Albert Stirley I have succeeded in getting the Board of Trade to withdraw its objection to a reasonable program of winter racing and that a notification to this effect has been sent to tin National Hunt committee with an invitation to them to at once rubuiit a program programI I am bound to sqy that I found Sir Albert free from any kind of prejudice against the sport and fully alive to the importance in the interests of the horse racingI breeding industry of maintaining racing I bad however some trouble in overcoming the railway objections but happily succeeded in the nd in doing so with the gratifying result already announced announcedThe The matter is now of course entirely in the hands of the National Hunt committee committeeENGLISH ENGLISH SPOBTSMEN AKD POLITICS POLITICSFriends Friends cf si ort an preparing to take a keen pnrt in the coming elections and the following list f test questions are being put to candidates for Cointy Council or Parliament in many districts 1 Will yon protect and maintain the rights of the IH ople to the free enjoyment of all sports pas ¬ times and recreations such as may at present be legitimately oajoyed 2 Will you in pursuance of the above under ¬ taking oppose absolutely and do your utmost by all lawful means to thwart all persons other titan legally constituted authorities who may endeavor to interfere directly or indirectly vitli the peoples sp3rts pastimes and recreations or with any one of them or with any incident there to V 3 Do you agree that the people should have liberty in their sports pastimes and recreations under such rules as are from time to time laid down by those who practically understand the same and that such liberty while regulated by the law of the land should lx exempt from all other inter ¬ ference whatsoever 4 Do you further agree that all persons or lx dics of persons seeking in any way to obstruct inter ¬ fere with or suppress any sport pastime or recreation or any incident thereto the same iKjing decorously conducted and not contrary to law should be discouraged and discountenanced by magistrates County Councils or other au ¬ thorities before whom they may prefer com ¬ plaints
