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Horsemen Group Appeals For Grayson Foundation Ask Smaller Men in Sport to Aid Bodys Research Activities BELMONT PARK, Elmont, L. I., N. Y., June 16. — The work of the Grayson Foundation has grown to such proportions in the past few years that for the first time in its history a general appeal for funds is made. Heretofore its activities were supported solely by contributions from race tracks, breeders and the more prominent owners and others identified with racing. Now, over the signatures of Preston M. Burch, Thomas Piatt and William duPont, Jr., the Horsemens Committee for Grayson Foundation, an appeal has been addressed to the "smaller" men in the sport, the trainer, owner and others associated with the thoroughbred. This drive specifically is for a project to be started at the University of Maryland under the direction of Col, John Kintner. It will be concerned entirely with research into influenza and the "cough," the greatest and extremely common plague which annually takes a heavy toll of the big and small owners alike. Research in the diseases of the thoroughbred is strictly a private enterprise, sparked and financed almost completely by the Grayson Foundation. Government agencies have almost unlimited funds for combatting diseases of chickens, hogs and cattle,-but not so with the horse. Grants made by the Grayson Foundation in support of swamp fever, virus abortion and other equine diseases total more than 0,000 annually, all of which is raised through voluntary contributions. To finance exhaustive-study of influenza and "coughing"1 and seek a cure for the dreaded scourge, the foundation is issuing memberships of three classifications — annual at 0, special at 0 and co-operating at 00. The officers of the Grayson Foundation are Walter M. Jeffords, president; Dean Raymond A. Kelser and. Louie A. Beard, vice-presidents; Edward L. Kilroe, secretary and treasurer, and George D. Widener, chairman of the executive committee. Headquarters are at 250 Park Avenue, New York 17, N. Y.
