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HUNTINGTON OPENS TODAY West Virginia Jockey Club Inaugurates Its Fall Meeting Under Favorable Conditions. HTJNTTNGTON, W. Va., Oct 12. The nineteen-day fall meeting of the West Virginia Jockey Club will be ushered in tomorrow afternoon at the Barboursville course with an excellent card of seven races, the Charleston Purse, for three-year-olds and over, at one mile, featuring the initial days program. There are upward of four hundred horses on the grounds and more are still arriving, the late comers numbering, among others, H. Dougherty with fourteen horses. Kay Spence this morning wired for reservations for twelve horses which he will send from Latonia on Monday. Stewards William Shelley and John T. Ireland passed upon the applications of some twenty-five jockeys who will accept mounts at the meeting. Marshall Cassidy, who will do the starting, motored through from Thorncliffe Parle, Toronto. He was accompanied by Francis Dunne, who will act as timer.
