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! KENTUCKY RACING OFFICIALS NAMED. W. Perkins Cited by State Commission on Charge of Enticing Exercise Lad. Lexington, Ky., April 7. The state Baring Commission, all present with t! set ptiou of Ueaeral W. I.. il.ihhniaii. met here yesterday. Licenses to hold meetings ia the siuiiiL: and ill of 1!H7 were granted to the associations owning the Lexiagton, Churchill l owiis. Douglas Park and Latonia tracks. Raring off* bda for the year at those four tracks v. ere approved ,-is follows: , Lexington: apt. T. .1. Clay, presiding steward. V. H. Sheihy. judge, racing secretary and haude upper. Harry Morrisaey, starter. .1. s. Wallace, eatrj clerk aad asotetant. Dr. .lames T. Simnnaii. paddock judge. Peter Wimmer, patrol judge. s. K. Bughes, timer. .New Louisville Jockey tluli: Charles F. Price and Charles F. Grainger, stewards. W. II. Shelly. Judge ami clerk of scales. .1. P.. Campbell, judge, racing secretary and haadicupm r. Henry C. HarthiU. paddo-k judge. Harry Monisotj. starter. William Phillips, patrol judge. George Uaateuherger, timer. Douglas Park Jockey Club and Latonia Agricultural Association: Charles K. Price, steward. .1. It. Campbell, judge, secretary and handicapper. W. H. Shelley, judye and clerk of the scales. Harry Morrisaey, starter. Henry . HarthiU. paddock judge. S. K. Hughes, timer. John E. Maddens charge hat Will Perkins had entiied the exercise boy James Brooks from his em -play was sustained. The contract held by Madden upon the Stll his of Busks was held to be- valid and secretary S. C. Nuckols was instructed to notify Perkins to appear before the- commission at its next meeting and "show nam why he should not be- punish- ! fat his action iu the matter." The following new rule was adopted: "In any race that fails to fill and is declared off, the m.nics of ;iii the horses that were entered shall be publicly posted ill the secretarys office, not later than 1 oclock p. m. cm tiie day of which the entries closed." Vernon Sanders of Louisville was naammtetad telegraph censor for all Kentucky tracks for tic-year. The- present and proposed selling race rules were- discussed at. length, but it finally was decided that the- secretary shall send to each member of the commission a copy of a rule now formally before it. together with copies of several other 1 tiles, with the- understanding that the matter i; to come up again at the next meeting, which is to be at the call of chairman Johnson N. Camden. Messrs. T. H. Talliot, Charles F. Grainger and Secretary Nuckols were appointed to serve as a committee on licenses.
