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COLUMBUS RACING TODAY Beulah Park to Throw Open Its Gates for Spring Meeting of Exceptional Promise. COLUMBUS, Ohio. April 17.— What presages the most brilliant racing season in the history of thoroughbred sport in Ohio since the revival of the sport five years ago will be inaugurated at the Capital City Racing Associations track at Beulah Park tomorrow afternoon with an excellent program of seven well-filled and evenly balanced contests. The main attraction will be the third running of the Beulah Park Inaugural Handicap, for three-year-oids and over, at a mile and seventy yards. Seven horses are carded in the feature, but there were throwouts in the other six, indicating that the limited number of starters will face starter Dean. While the track is in excellent condition, atmospheric conditions point to a slow track for the opening. The approval of licenses for the meeting was passed on by a committee composed of judge Joseph A. Murphy, John T. Ireland and Win Kennan. The following are the officials for the meeting: Stewards, Joseph A. Murphy and John T. Ireland; judges, Harry D. Shepard, W. R. Norvall and Chester Stands; starter, Lester Dean; secretary, W. R. Norvall; clerk of the course, W. R. Booker; paddock judge, Emerson Shepard; patrol judge, William Martin.
