Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1911 — SPORT ASSOCIATION IS PLAN [ARTICLE]

SPORT ASSOCIATION IS PLAN

Horsemen After Dinner at New York Recently Want an International Body. The horsemen’B dinner held in New York recently, at whibh August Belmont announced his intention of giving several valuable stallions to the, United States government, ? probably will lead to the starting of an association of horsemen, binding together more closely such organizations as the Jockety club, the Polo association, the various bunt clubs and the steeplechase committees. Aa suggested by Harry W. Smith of Worcester, who arranged for the dinner, the organization will be broad, open to all sports of turf and field. "We plan,” he says, “to make it open to sportsmen in the broadest sense of the word, including members both here and abroad. Prom every foreign country, almost weekly, come gentlemen who are fond of country life and have made a life study of horses, hounds and other animals. “The provision of entry should be only that the prospective member be a sportsman and a gentleman in hiß home’ town. There is no reason for restricting the membership to certain cities, for why should one wait till he takes up a residence in some center of population before he is " allowed to mingle with the sportsmen of America? The main thing is to restrict it to sportsmen, for we are* really an exclusive class and the true sportsman has a language of his own and a meaning to his words which others can never understand.”