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Show ru SPORTSMEN ARE TO BE ORGANIZED 1 New York, Feb. 10. The horse- 1 men's dinner, held here last night at which August Belmont announced his intention of giving several valuable j 6talllons to the United States govern- : jnont for breeding purposes, will probably prob-ably lead to tho starting of an association as-sociation of horsemen, binding togeth- 1 or more closely such organizations as : the Jockey club, the Polo association, the various hunt clubs and the steeple chase committees, as suggested by Harry W. Smith of Worcester, who arranged for the dinner. Tho organization organi-zation will be a broad one, open to all sports of turf and field. , "Wo plan," he says, "to make it open to sportsmen In tho broadest j sense of the word. Including members j both here and abroad. From every ; foreign country, almost weekly, come gentlemen who are rond 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 sportsmnn and a gentleman in his home town. There is no reason for restricting tho memberships to certain cer-tain cities, for why should one wait till ho takes up a residence in some center of population before he Is allowed al-lowed to mingle with the sportsmen of America? The main thing is to restrict it to Bportsmen. for we arc 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." 1 00 1 |