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HONOR MRS. PAYNE WHITNEY Thoroughbred Club of America Gives Testimonial Dinner in Honor of Noted Feminine Owner. LEXINGTON, Ky., Oct. 14. Four hundred persons paid homage to Mrs. Payne Whitney, "first lady of American racing," at the seventh annual testimonial dinner of the Thoroughbred Club of America here last night. The owner of the Greentree Stable was presented with a scroll and pin emblematic of life membership in the club, by president Daniel B. Midkiff. Tom R. Underwood presided as toastmas-ter and introduced Gov. Albert B. Chandler, John Hay Whitney, Bishop H. P. Almon Abbot, Joseph E. Widener, Senator Johnson N. Camden and Samuel D. Riddle, the latter three former guests of honor at the clubs dinners. . Whitney, making the principal address in behalf of his mother, issued a warning against overcommercialism in racing and expressed the hope that more weight-for-age and distance races could be successfully offered in this country, suggesting that one of the best means of doing so was through education of the public to like and demand them. The dinner was held at the Student Union Building at the University of Kentucky, with the room being tastefully decorated in Mrs. Whitneys racing colors of pink and black. Music was by the University Radio Orchestra and spirituals were sung by colored choirs. i
