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OHIO COMMISSIONERS BUSY Planning Rules and Regulations for Government of Sport. J. A. Murphy, J. T. Ireland and W. Kinnan lo Serve as License Committee — Aims and Objects of Body. COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 7.— E. W. Swisher, president of the First National Bank of Columbus, who is chairman of the Executive Committee of the Ohio State Racing Commission, has been working indefatigably since the first meeting of the governing body collaborating with his associates and other national racing authorities in shaping the rules and regulations of the new governing body, which will function with the opening of the racing season at Beulah Park, Columbus, April 18. "Its an amalgamation of the whole for the common good of all the real conservators of racing in Ohio," said President Swisher following the first meeting of the Commissions officers. "We will co-operate with the New York Jockey Club, Maryland, Kentucky, Nevada and Nebraska racing commissions, as ! well as those in Canada and Illinois, but our real work is ahead of us. We can only approve the schedules for the coming season, ; but next year we hope to go about our work as our contemporaries in Maryland, and it I would seem that our task is the same as I confronted the Maryland Commission when I it came into being. However, eventually we | will find a solution for these seemingly vex- j atious problems, making provisions and satisfying everyone, for, as I said before, it is an amalgamation of the whole for the common good of all. "This is positively the best move ever for the improvement of racing conditions in this state, and we realize that if the best interests of the horse industry is to be conserved we must have reciprocal relations | with the governing bodies of the United States and Canada, as was so forcibly stressed by Thomas B. Cromwell, secretary of the Thoroughbred Horse Association recently. That applies not only to the numerous tracks and horsemen, but to. the race-going public as well. An organization of this type has come to be an absolute necessity. Some of the enemies of racing — and we are attacked from within our own ranks as well as from without — may be against the commission, but they will see the light ! before long. Its the only logical way out j of a situation that was fast becoming chaotic." Judge Joseph A. Murphy, steward at New Orleans and Chicago, who will serve on th" License Committee of the Ohio State Racing Commission, with John T. Ireland, former steward of the Kentucky State Racing Commission, and Win Kinnan. secretary of the ! Grand Circuit, has notified the Commission, i that he will arrive in Columbus the week preceding the opening of the season to pan I on trainers, jockeys, valets and agents an- I plication for recognition. Thus it will be understood that every trainer and Jockey participating in racing in Ohio, will be required to have his license approved by the | governing board. Applications for forms for registering colors, agents, assumed names, trainer*, jockeys and valets, may be had on ] application to Harry D. Shepard, secretary of the commission, 33 North Hijih Street,! The executive committee *of the Racing C«nimisison is working on the rules of the DOW governing body, and it is announc d that the rules to govern the running races will ! be fashioned after The Jockey Club and Ken- j I tui ky regulations, with suitable provisions and amendments to fit the racing situation, as it exists in Ohio. Harness racing, as In Kentucky, will be under the American anil National supervision, but will be changed wherever it is deemed best for the best in- j . l rests of the courses in Ohio. 1 I
