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AWAIT BUGLE AT CLEVELAND Maple Heights Meeting Begins Saturday Joseph Murphy Presiding Judge JudgeCLEVELAND CLEVELAND Ohio May 4 Intense inter ¬ est is being manifested in the approaching race meeting to be held at Maple Heights by the Ohio State Jockey Club which will bo inaugurated next Saturday The outlook for a successful meeting was never brighter and with the plant in thorough readiness and plenty of horses here available for the racing only favorable weather is necessary for an auspicious opening openingThe The directors of the Ohio State Jockey Club have completed their list of officials for the spring meeting Joseph A Murphy will serve as presiding steward this spring Wash Norvell will succeed Fred W Gerhardy as racing secretary and W R Booker will act as clerk of the course A complete list fol ¬ lows Joseph A Murphy presiding steward Fred W Gerhardy presiding judge Wash Norvell racing secretary William Snyder starter W R Booker clerk of the course Messrs Murphy Gerhardy and Norvell han dicappers William Martin paddock judge and J Jenkins timer timerThe The vanguard of the Tijuana horses have arrived at the Ohio State Jockey Club course at Maple Heights The shipment brought many stars of the far West meeting The stables of L T Whitehill Jack Eckert W L Stanford G W Atkinson Lee Hankins J Bishop J Brent John T Strite and IL T Palmer came in on this thoroughbred special The majority of the western contingent will be ready to race May 6 the opening day dayThe The track at Maple Heights is in excellent condition and a number of good workouts were made by horses whose owners evidently fearing some more rain sent them along at a lively clip Coffield star of the North and Rowe stable registered the fastest work last Sunday morning going threequarters in 1 13 13Ernest Ernest Cottrell who serves as paddock judge on the TriState circuit was an arrival from his home in Moundsville W Va VaBryant Bryant Steele assistant to starter William Snyder came in from his home in Louisville LouisvilleJ J Schlesinger was an arrival from Lexing ¬ ton with Blue Star StarB B Williams came in from Devonshire Park with Hopover and J Lacey brought Acouch la II In the same car carH H G Woods arrived from Havana with Last One and E McMeans with Dragoon J M Booker detrained from Toronto with the horses of the El Oro Stable StableJockey Jockey Ted Wilson second on the list of winning riders at Tijuana accompanied his employer J T Strite here George Williams who is under contract to J A Parson was an arrival
