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JOCKEY CLUB RE-ELECTS OFFICERS. i. Racinq Officials Are Re-appointed — Radtkes S Case Referred to License Committee. New York. January 11. — At the annual meeting of the stewards of the Jockey Club last uight the chief officers were re-elected: August Belmont, chairman: James R. Keeue, vice-chairman, anil K. 1. Sturgis. secretary treasurer. Messrs. 1". K. Hitchcock. II. K. Kaapf and Andrew Miller weie appointed as the committee on licenses. ior the coming racing season the following officials were chosen: Clarence McDowell, C. H. Iettingill, judges: H. ;. Ctickmore. clerk •! scales; W. S. Vosburgh. handicapper: Mars Cassidy. .-farter. ihe case of jockey Herman Hadtke, who was suspended last autumn for a bad looking ride on Tommy Waihlcll. was referred to the License Committee. , The question of the eligibility of C. K. Durnell s . entries to stakes for the Coney Island Jockey Clubs spring meeting was passed for consideration at a future meeting. Amendments to the rules of racing were adopted, one to the effect that "a horse shall not l e quali-tied , to run in a race unless he has been announced as a starter, being on the grounds of the association, . and the name of his jockey given to the clerk of the course or the clerk of the scales not less than thirty minutes before the time apitointed for the race." Rule No. "4 was stricken out and paragraph III. of rule 147 which read: "Any person who shall 1 employ a jockey or trainer in contravention of this rule shall be liable to be lined by the stewards of the Jockey Club" was amended by the addition of f the words "or by the stewards." A new rule was adopted that the rules of racing supersede the i-ouditions of a race or regulations of f a meeting when they conflict.
