QUICK DISPATCHES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 17, 15 October 1918, Page 8

QUICK DISPATCHES

P?3 the Editor.) Sir—l would call the attention of tho stewards of the Wellingtor Racing Club to the' style of starting adopted recently at, Dannevirko. Otaki, and Chrietchurch. At each meeting the Btarter dispatched tho fields in about three minutes. Each starter vied with the others to get a record. Our Wellington meeting takes place in a fortnight, and I trust tho stewarde will ask their starter to give quick dispatches to the fields. Wellington starts have at times been nainfnlly slow and strung-out. No doubt Mr. O'Connor wants to give every horeo a- chance. Still it does not retiuire twenty minutes, us often hanpens. to get the field off The stewards should erect steps nt the startinir-nnst to enable the starter to get up quietly instead of balancing on a three-cornered rail lllra p.l.mvlin, th« wiw-wMker. The starter should get in his ohvated position and let them go within <hr<?e mimite». tho unruly ones to b° left brhi'id. nnjl iockevs "tryinfi foi'ft. fly" to he flned --ClO for tU first nttemnt nnd "fit back to thp. paddock for the second offence. . Mr. O'Connor is a slraiirht man, hut ■wants backing up for a threo minutes start.—l am. etc., nOBSE-OWXKB. A "Ltalton Society" lias been organised in New York city by a number of American men of science interested in the study of mankind. Tile membership is limited to 25. Dr. C. B. Davenport, director of the Carnegie Station for Experimental Evolution, has leeii cly/ssu president.