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: ; SUCCEEDS AUGUST BELMONT F. K. Sturgis Elected Chairman of the Jockey Club H. K. Knapp Resigns as Treasurer. 0 NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. CO. At a meeting of the stewards of the Jockey Club this afternoon, Mr. Frank K. Sturgis was elected chairman in succession to the late Major August Belmont. The resignation of Mr. Harry K. Knapp as treasurer was accepted with great regret. Mr. Knapp was elected vice-chairman to succeed Mr. Sturgis. Mr. John E. Cowdin was elected secretary-treasurer and Messrs. William Woodward, Joseph E. Widener and Joseph E. Davis were named a standing committee by the chair. Mr. Payne Whitney was elected to the beard of stewards in place of the late Major August Belmont. There were present Messrs. P. K. Sturgis, William Woodward, Joseph E. Widener, Joseph E. Davis and John E. Cowdin. Mr. Surgls is one of the oldest members of the Jockey Club, and has been active in its administration from the first. For many years he was treasurer of the organization and has made a most efficient chairman of the breeding bureau. He bred carriage horses of quality at Clipston Grange, his estate at Lenox, Mass., and drove four-in-hand teams of his own breeding in the period when coaching was a fashionable pastime. He has been president of the New York Coaching Club. In the early days of the National Horse Show Association he was a director and took an active part in the conduct of the many successful shows at Madison Square Garden when the exhibitions attracted the cream of the horses of the United States. John E. Cowdin, who becomes secretary-treasurer, is a well-known sportsman. He was an amateur rider of daring and a polo enthusiast in his younger days. He has served as a steward at various meetings for the past few years and has represented the Jockey Club at the Jamaica course spring and fall. He has a wide acquaintance among racing folk. The elevation of Mr. Payne Whitney to the board of stewards will meet with the approval of the racing public, as he is regarded as one of the mainstays of the sport in the ranks of the younger men, from whom the turf governors of t,he future. must come. He .has taken an increasing interest in the turf and is a large stockholder in Belmont Park.
