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HAVANA OFFICIALS ARE ANNOUNCED. Further Details of Arrangements for Winter Meeting in Cuba Are Made Public at Charleston. Charleston,. S. C, December 17. The book program for the tirst eight days of the Cuba-American Jockey Clubs sixty-seven-day winter meeting at Oriental Park, Havana. Cuba, which was distributee among the horsemen hero this week, makes more liberal iirovisions for them in the matter of purses and overnight handicaps than ever before have been offered at a winter race meeting. No purse ia less than 00, and handicaps ranging in value up to ,000 are provided for. Manager H. D. Brown, in a published statement, has promised the horsemen that as soon as conditions justify it, the purses will be increased in valuta. The distribution of -the book was followed by expressions of approval and W. W. Lyles and Harry White, who are compiling a list of the stables to be shipped to Oriental Park at the conclusion of the meeting here, report accessions to tlie ranks of those who are Havana-liouud. The complete list of officials for the Havana meeting is as follows: J. II. Patterson, president: II. ,D. Brown, vice-president and general manage: Frauk J. Bmen, auditor; C. F. Flynn. secretary; Thomas C. .McDowell, W. P. Burch and Charles H. Lansdale, stewards: P. A. Brady, presiding judge; James Milton, starter: C. F. Flynn, clerk of the course; Charles C. Campau, assistant treasurer; Harry White, William M. IMurray and W. W, Lyles, paddock and patrol judges; John Gardner, timer. The meeting will be conducted under the rules of racing of the Cuba-American Jockey Club, and the rulings of all recognized turf governing lwdies will be respected. There are some features of the track rules which have been tried and found valuable at many other courses which are to be iu vogue at Havana. One is that jockeys must have their engagements made strictly by their contract employers or the trainers or authorized agents for such employers, the employment of outside persons as agents and valets being forbidden. Strict regulation of tlie personnel of the badge-holders is another determined stand which Manager Brown lias taken. Unwarranted abuse of the badge privilege will be suppressed through drastic measures, anil it is the aim of Manager Brown and his associates, throughout their course of administration, to keep the racing clean and free from taint of scandal. Tlie feature for the opening days racing on Thursday, January 7, is the Inaugural Handicap, one mile and a sixteenth, for three-year-olds aud upward. It carries a purse of ,000, while -five other purses of 00 eacli are offered. For the second day the first race for two-year-olds is programmed at a quarter of a mile. Selling handicaps of 1914.sh00 and more, as well as non-selling overnigot handicaps of liberal values, abound In the program book. Manager Brown, in a statement distributed among the horsemen here, announces that he will be at Palmetto Park December 28. and at that time will arrange for the big movement of horses and men from here to Oriental Park. Shipments will be loaded at the trackslde here and will be unloaded at the entrance to Oriental Park in navana. Tlie fiye-hour shipment from Key West to Havana will be niflde in the mammoth steel car ferries which go Into service between those cities on "January 1. ihe cost per car from Charleston to Havana "will be 0S.
