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. - t TO HONOR EDWARD MAGINNS MEMORY. New Orleans. La.. January 80. — Tribute- to the 8 memory of a man who was an honor to the; American - turf during his long years of his connection with it, will be paid by the Business Mens Racing Association this week, when the Bd Maginn Memorial - Handicap is run off at the Fair Grounds track. - Mr. Maginn. who died last summer, numbered his s friends by the thousand in this city, and the action a of the local lacing body in putting on this race f struck a popular chord. At the- .same course over r Which the race will be run. Mr. Maginn served as s an official at one time, and he- alsei served in a similar - capacity at City Park, the other race track i in this city. Racing Secretary Joe McLennan has arranged the 6 handicap so as to bring some of the crack horses • quartered at the course together and he will do his s best to make the race one long to lee remembered. • The owners eif the good horses will also do their J part to make it a titling tribute to a man who had 1 been thiir trienel for so many years, and a man 1 whom they would go to extremes feir. During his career Mr. Maginn served as racing secretary and handlcapper at the race tracks in St. Lends. Hot Springs. New Orleans, Louisville and Latonia. and at every place- Ins weak gave the utmost satisfaction. He; had been complaining for several j cars past, but slink to his task until cenn-pelleel to take to his bed during the Latonia, Ky.. race meeting last spring. He grew worse rapidly V and died within a short while in a Cincinnati hospital. - His death was a distinct loss to racing, . for which he- had done so much, but that the turf t will not forget him Is shown by the action of the e local racing organization in putting on the handicap - named in honor of him.
