SPORT AND WAR.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 4 December 1915, Page 3

SPORT AND WAR.

RACING CLUB’S ATTITUDE. The question of whether sport should! be continued during the progress of the war was discussed at a meetineg of the New Zealand Trotting Asoocia-J tion in Christchurch recently. The'president, Mr P. Selig, said there had been some discussion in the public PPress, and the subject had received some prominence by na address given on the Riccarton racecourse by a returned officer. They found that, though racing had been curtailed in England, it wafe .la/rgely due to the fact that the railways had been unable to cope with the traffic. They found, moreover, that the King, who had been prominent in connection with another reform, dealing with the drink traffic, was still racing his horses, and that racing was also going on in Russia, Germany, and other places.

Could it be said that the fact that racing was still being carried on was preventing men from enlisting. He did net think that such was the case. He thought that if racing were to be stop-’-■''d they would find that there were still men who would not go except, under compulsion. Then, again, they had to take into consideratoin the number of men connected with sport who had enlisted. Pie found that trotting chibs had given in direct contributions something like £12,000, m fdditicn to the war tax on divilsnds and other cotributions to the Con: i ,: fated revenue. Moreover seve.'i! cluos u••re

giving their profits for the season to patriotic funds. In addition, there were so many people dependent ion the snort as a livelihood that it seemed the whole machinery was too complicated to interfere with unnecessarily. On the motion of Mr Mark it was decided that the remarks rf the president and Mr F. Nicol should be printed, and copies forwarded to the trotting and racing clubs.