While a U.S. baseball star pouted on a Florida beach because he did not consider $40,000 enough for one season's harrowing toil, sports-loving Britain last week officially restricted three well-loved sports—horse racing, dog racing, boxing. Purpose: a closer approach to total war effort. Some U.S. citizens, impatient with Coordinators of Bowling and Horseshoe Heaving (see p. 57), thought the U.S. might well follow suit.
> In Britain this year horse racing will be limited to 42 days of flat racing (last prewar season: 331) and five race tracks, and horses will be permitted to race only in their own training areas. As...
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