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Show HORSEMEN ADJOURN. Pass Resolution to Further Safeguard Race Records Tribune S;eclal Sporting Snxlie NEW YORK. Jen at The closing act of the IxMird of review at Its meeting Just held at the Murray Hill hotel was i, i puss tin- following resolution on mo- I lion of tJhai les Dana Palmer, Lowell. Mass . representing the Eastern district: i j "That the P.ule committee of Ihe next Congress are respect fully requested to PTOpOea ""in. i le that will further safeguard safe-guard race records and prevent records acquired where there Is no true contest j bring COnfuaed with them In the secretary's report, sent to the members of the National Trotting ssso-clatlon, ssso-clatlon, no explanation Is given as to the reason for adopting t Lis resolution, but I horsemen believe i' "' It was , uuaed by the unfavorable reports of the "Dan Patch" meeting held at Memphis earl In November, when afler repeated trials ll.e great I MP i -eeded In reducing the world's tailing record from 1 to ljg Much has already been written of this meeting, and as a result few trotting Ii, rsen an believe the genuineness of the performance, yet no one has offered any complaints Individually or otnciaiiv. No? has the regularltv Of the meeting ever In en '.uestloned. That portion of mis 11 of 'he National association pertaining to "Performances Agslnei Time" contains nfteen sections and Is one of the most complete and far-reaching far-reaching rules of the association A atrlct mforcemeiit of the requirements of the existing rules seems to lie sufficient not lo allow mi) chance of obtaining time rec-, rec-, rda fraudulently. If the rule committee will deem It advisable to corkply with the request nf the bostd. It will he of Interest to know what section of the rule will be emended So fei there has ie, a nothing Stated officially to PCOVS that the Memphis msetlng sras Irregular, therefore, the h, rse world nust am pi the fact that Dan Patch paced a mile In I'M- |