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" " j - . 1 , 1 ; TRIBUTE FOR LEON WING Judge Francis Nelson Tells of His Sterling Qualities and Loss to Racing. In commenting on the tragic death of Leon Wing at Reno, Nev., judge Francis Nelson, the popular Canadian racing official, who during the last two winters served as presiding ; steward at Tijuana, where Leon Wing was one of the judges and racing secretary, paid the following tribute to the deceased : "Leon Wing was a Winnipegger by birth, but his racing experience had been confined to the Pacific coast, where he was very highly regarded. He was a young man younger than his murderer, who had not been riding for a year or more, having got into trouble in British Columbia last year. Mr. Wing was one of the most capable racing officials I have known, with a great gift for hard work and an uncanny ability as a handicapper. He did the wheel-horses task at Tijuana during the tv.o winters I was there, and it could not have been better done. A man of sterling : j integrity and such capacity had a great i future in his line of work, and his dreadful death is a real loss to the turf world. Of the most affable disposition, and always on the alert to render assistance to others, he was the last man that any person of sound mind could have looked on as an enemy. To racing on the Pacific coast his tragic passing j seems irreparable, and such as had his friendship are the worse off by the loss of one who possessed in a high degree those qualities that make a man worth while."
