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WILLIAMS BROS. SELL OUT « Entire Turf Holdings Now in the Hands of Syndicate. * Deal Closed Thursday and All the ■ones Will He Bisposed of by Auction on .May 7. LOUISVILLE, Ky.. April 2. Humors that the entire turf holdings of Williams Bros.. including the twenty-one horses in training at Douglas Park and all of the firms stallions, brood mares, yearlings and sucklings at the Williams farm, near Blackwell, Okla.. had been sold to a syndicate were confirmed toelay rather reluctantly by both Dick and Bete Williams, who both aelmitted that the deal had been consummated Thursday afternoon. The Williams Bros, at the last meeting of the Kentucky Stale Racing Commission bad. together with T. P. Devereaux and femr jockeys, be-en rulcel off the turf and at the time the Williams Bre s. were granted permission to elispose ejf their horses at public auction to bona fide buyers and the date of the sale was set for May 7. A short time ago Dick Williams was approached by a syndicate of horsemen with the request that he put a price on his entire-turf holdings. This price was satisfactory and Thursday afternoon Dick Williams met the members of the syndicate at Douglas Bark and the deal was e-ompleted. Thomas B. Cromwell headeel the syndicate that came here to close negotiations and he was accompanied by W. K. Oaskey, .Jr., of Bexington, and C. K. Knebelkamp, e f Be uis-ville. According to the agreement entered intei. the- horses in training at De uglass I ark are to remain in the e-are e f Williams Brothers until May 1, when they will be turned over to their new owners whe it is sale will crJL-iuct the ; ale of the animal*! at Douglas* ■ ark on the e-rigina! date, May 7. The breeding stock now at the Oklahoma farm will probably be brought to Lexington and sedel there at publie- auction at some later date. The price agreed upon was not made public by Dick Williams, but from a reliable se.ure-e it was learned that the syndieates f ffer of 5,000 was accepted by the Williams Bre thers. It was also learned that Williams was given a check for 0,000 and that the- remaining 5,000 will bo forthcoming the day he turns the horses over to the purchasers, May 1.
