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i URGE HORSEMEN TO KEEP AGREEMENT Thcroug-hbred Horse Association Advises Turfmen at New Orleans Not to Violate Promises, DKXINCTON, Ky.. February If!.— Thomas C. McDowell, president: Charles II. P.crrymaii. T. I. Hay.-. A. P.. Hancock, John S. Darbee. directors, add Thomas B. Cromwell, secretary, of the Thoroughbred Horse Association, today signed a telegram to J, imes Arthur, another director of the organization, who is at New Orleans, advising him that a committee, which was empowered by the members in s, -mi -annual meeting here last September to come to an agreement with the managers of the winter race meetings at New Orleans and Havana, relative to the amount of money to he given t,. puise-. had agreed with n. D. Bryaa that siixm daily would be given at Jefferson Park and that if conditions should justify tlie Jefferson Parish Fair Association would voluntarily increase the daily distribui ion. The telegram further recites that while on the second and third days of the meeting iu November there was ■ tecaaica] violation of the agreement on the part of tin- Jefferson Park management, the shortage of snoo oa Iheee two days was mare, than made up as the meeting BCeglCaaed. The position is taken that the associations numbers ale in bono.- bound by tin- agreement of tin- asaoctatioaa •omtnitt. -. which in the Isal analysis is the act f the association and ils individual members, and expresses the hope and expectation that the members of Ike asso. irition at New Orleans will live up to the agreement, however much they may think tlie Jefferson Park management can afford to give ,000 daily instead of S4.:iK . which represents 00 daily over I he minimum of the agreement.
