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TRI-STATE FAIR CIRCUIT ERIE, Pa., August S. Edwin A. Pohlman, general manager of the Tri-State Fair and Racing Association, has announced the dates for the first three late summer meetings, the first following immediately upon the close of the Toledo Jockey Clubs meeting. They will be inaugurated in Erie, Pa., on August 21 under the auspices of the Erie Exposition Company and will be of six days duration. There will be seven races daily. Following Erie the Conneaut Lake Racing Association will offer an analogous program, beginning August 2S and ending September 2, when Wheeling, W. Va., will come in for a weeks racing in connection with the West Virginia State Fair, beginning Labor Day, September 4. The program books, which are in triplicate, for the Erie, Conneaut Lake and Wheeling meetings, were distributed among the horsemen at the various centers this week, and in addition to the number of stables already on the grounds, it it expected that the great majority engaged at Toledo and further augmented by regular patrons from Montreal, will participate in the initial meeting at Exposition Park. Manager Pohlman has arranged an exceptionally elaborate program for tho first three meetings, which, it is expected, will be followed by two meetings of thirteen days duration apiece. The purses range in values from 00 to 00, a handicap being among the daily offerings for the better grade. Owners J. A. Parson, H. T. Palmer and H. G. Good will ship to Erie at the close of the Toledo meeting. The following is a list of the racing officials for the coming meetings: Messrs. Murphy, Gerhardy and Macfarlan alternating ; judges, Joseph A. Murphy, Fred W. Gerhardy, Norman M. Macfarlan ; associates, Joseph M. McGraw, Chester Stands, J. A. Wurzbach, Charles Oliver; starter, Lester Dean; racing secretary, IT. D. Monroe; clerk of the course, W. R. Booker; paddock judge, Ernest Cot-trell; timers, J. J. Phillips, H. Lawrence. Charles N. Hancher; general manager, Edwin A. Pohlman.
