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CARROLLS BENEVOLENT WORK i Working Hard to Form National Body to Care for Aged and Indigent Turfmen. ARLINGTON, Texas, April 7. Continuing to work toward sponsoring a national movement to take care of the men actively engaged on the nations tracks, and who have fallen upon evil days, T. J. Carroll, is endeavoring to interest owners and operators of Texas tracks in a plan whereby all tracks will set aside one day during each meeting and devote all or part of the receipts to a fund for the care of those unfortunates. Carroll has already interested Raymond Russell, president of Alamo Downs, in his plan, which is unselfish, and hopes to gain an audience with E. Paul and Guy L. Waggoner, ownere of Arlington Downs and those in charge of Epsom Downs, Houston. He has already sold H. D. Monroe on the general idea, and Monroe, is not at all backward in pointing to the many merits in Carrols plan, advocating as it does benefits, not only for trainers, riders and other attaches of the track, but for the active horsemen in general. "I am hopeful when all my plans are completed to have an organization which will be headed by men in racing such as Admiral Cary T. Grayson, H. Bayard Swope, Col. E. R. Bradley, Joseph E. Widener and Damon Runyon, as national administrators and all of our representative men here in Texas to supervise the funds which might accrue from the movement in the Lone Star State," he said. "Nearly every other branch of the sporting world takes care of the oldsters but the turf world is the only one which has not a central organization to care for its champions of yesteryear and it is toward this end I am striving," he continued. "Look back along the years and you will see the paths strewn with men who have heard the acclaim of the nation, yet did not salvage enough from it all to care for themselves in declining years, and therefore if not now taking charity, are in lowly positions around the stables," he continued. "Its going to be a hard fight to organize, but Im still hanging on and am going to stay right in there until I get every plan completed and when success crowns my efforts, that will be reward enough for Tommy Carroll," he concluded.
