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VETERAN WRITER AND OFFICIAL. New York. October 2S. n. G. Crickmore. one of the oldest of racing officials, is seriously 111 in a local sanitarium and it is doubtful if he will ever again fill any of the offices that were his since the early days of racing about New York. Mr. Crick-more was taken ill at the Belmont Hotel last week and his condition became so serious that his removal io the sanitarium was ordered. , H. G. Crickmore was one of the first New xork volunteers in the Union Army, joining when twenty-one years of age. He served all through the vvar and at its conclusion lived for a time in New Orleans, where he was employed in newspaper work. From New Orleans he returned to New York and accepted a position as turf editor of the orld. While there lie published Kriks Guide to theTurf. which at the time was the only published record of races run. He continued the publication of his culde until early in the SOs.. His principal official position of late years has been clerk of the course for the Westchester Rac-in" Association, he having filled that office since the formation of the association. He filled a like office for the Washington Jockey Club and officiated it the scales of the Brooklyn Jockey Club, as well as at several of the other meetings. He has always been a slave to his duty and ex-nosure at Belmont Park to inclement weather had lunch to do with his present illness. There his work made necessary a long walk from the jockey room to the stewards stand in all sorts of weather and at one of the other meetings held at the big trick he was ill at its conclusion. The solitary dissination enjoyed by Krlk was the opera and lie was always a regular at the Metropolitan during the season.
