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HUNTINGTON FALL MEETING Begins Next Saturday and Continues for Nineteen Days. Plenty Horses on the Grounds and More Coming Outlook Bright for Most Successful Racing. HUNTINGTON, W. Va., Oct. S. W. E. Deegan, the millionaire coal operator and president of the Tri-State Jockey Club, has taken active charge of the management of the coming fall meeting at Huntington, which will be inaugurated Saturday afternoon, October 13, and continue until November 3, a period of nineteen racing days. Mr. Deegan announced this afternoon that he proposes to bring the best horses available to Huntington and would eventually arrange the Barbour-ton course to conform with the Kentucky tracks in every detail. Several stables are already on the grounds awaiting the opening of the meeting, among them the strings of E. E. Major, Thomas Cheek, A. K. Miller, Dillard Hill, Ed Rice, J. M. Hubbell, John T. Abrams, and several other establishments. Mr. Deegan is in receipt of word daily from the various tracks that there will be shipments this way, especially from Latonia, Havre de Grace and Akron. J. C. Milam has signified his intention of sending a half a dozen racers from Latonia. There will also be several shipments from Thorncliffe Park, Toronto, to Huntington at the close of the meeting today. Thomas Brown, the well-known starter, who has taken charge of the track and grounds for the Tri-State Jockey Club, has been busy for some time putting the track in condition, as it will be recalled the course was rather hard for the harness races during the recent fair. But today the track is spic and span, with a fine cushion, though not too deep, which makes fast time feasible from the beginning. Several new barns are now in course of construction and will be completed by the middle of the week, which will bring the stabling accommodations to 500 stalls. Early next spring Mr. Deegan plans a number of improvements that are impracticable at this time, but will be ready before the spring meeting in 1924. Continued on twelfth page. HUNTINGTONS FALL MEETING Continued from first pace. " Racing will be in charge of Joseph A. Murphy, William Shelley and John T. Ireland, three competent racing officials. Messrs. Shelley and Ireland are in Kentucky in the interests of the meeting, while Joseph A. Murphy, who served as presiding steward at the Thorncliffe meeting, reports a number of stables en route to Huntington for the coming meeting. Marshall Cassidy, who will dispatch the fields, will come here directly from Toronto, while Judge Murphy goes to St. Louis for a day or so before reporting. W. R. Norvcll, who will act as racing secretary, is expected the early part of the week to compile the conditions of the races, which will be framed to suit the horses on the grounds and will appear at four-day intervals during the remaining days of the meeting. Mr. Deegan is of the opinion that better results are to be had this way, since it is possible, knowing what horses are quartered on the grounds, just what conditions will fill. This method will save the secretary writing extra races, while, on the other hand, provision can be made for most every class from the plater to the stake caliber and races will be framed accordingly with the purses, which will have a minimum valuation of 00, graded in a like manner. There will be seven races daily. R. V. Haymaker was among the early arrivals from Havre de Grace, bringing among others Handfull, Yoshimi and four others. Jockey T. Bonham accompanied the stable. Claude Hunt and C. S. Wilson are among the arrivals. Jockey T. Wayt is already on the grounds and will ride for his employer, Ed Rice. R. J. Howell has sent word that he will send his string from Akron this week. The stables of E. W. Moore, W. R. Padgett and J. A. Parson are also due to arrive from Akron.
