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DR RUTHERFORDS REPORT EXPLAINED TORONTO Out March Hi In an interview at Ottawa Dr 1 G Rutherford whose report on racing and betting in Canada was recently tabled in the Hoii o of Commons emphasized that he had made no recommendation for legislation abolishing or curtailing the activities of halfmile race tracks in Canada My report contains no rec ¬ ommendations said Dr Rutherford He then went on to intimate that as practically all the racing between Windsor Out and Vancouver and between Montreal and Halifax was held on half mile tracks a sweeping recommendation of the kind suggested would be extraordinary His effort said the commissioner had been to collect the evidence and lay it before the government and the house in a proper form The evidence was there for perusal and conclusions could be based on it