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BEULAH PARK STAGE SET ♦ Everything in Thorough Readiness for Opening of Meeting. + Approximately JM Horses Available for the Kaclnp— PrartlcaJly All the Officials Are on Hud. * ObUnOnjM, Ohio. April ll— Kverythins Is in readiness for the opening of the 1927 racing season in Ohio Saturday afternoon at the Beulah 1ark Jockey tlubs traek at tlrove City, when the nineteen-day meeting will get under way with the Inaugural Handicap, the annual /ixture. as the main attraction. The spacious plant is packed to overflowing with thoroughbreds from every point on the racing horizon — Havana, Tijuana, New Orleans, Florida, Maryland and New York each furnishing a representative quota to participate in the meeting. Racing Secretary W. H, Norvell reported that the Inaugural Handicap drew a liberal number of nominations and it is exj ected that at least seven or eight will accept the weights assigned them by the handicapper. Despite the fact that several stables are housed ouside the grounds, requests continued to pour into the management for stabling room, but it is thought that the Bowie shipment, which includes the horses of K. W. Moore. Nashville turfman, will complete the influx which came in a steady stream for the past two weeks. Secretary W. R. Norvell announced before his departure from the track today, after closing entries for the handicap, that there were upward of 500 horses in attendance for the spring meeting. Secretary Norvell will inaugurate the Monroe and Nathanson system at Keulah l*ark, which prevails at all the larger tracks in the country, using a chute to take his entries. This system is employed to advantage everywhere, since it permits of only one man at the entry window at a time, thus shutting out any chance of horsemen trailing or ducking one another in races. Practically all the officials are now on the grounds awaiting the opening. The list follows: Stewards, Joseph A. Murphy, J. T. Ireland, Chester Stands; judges. W. R. Norvell and H. 1 . Shepard ; racing secretary. W. R. Norvell ; starter, Lester Dean ; clerk of the scales, W. R. Booker ; paddock judge and timer, Charles S. Wilson ; mutuel supervisor. R. Jones. Ed Cole, veteran racing official of New York, has been suggested for the stewardship on the Cleveland tracks to work w.th John T. Ireland, as Joseph A. Murphy h;is already contracted to officiate at Omaha this spring. Cole numbers among his friends men prominent in political and social life in Cleveland. Kugene Bury, who has officiated for a number of years as racing secretary and judge on the Quebec Breeders track in Quebec, is an arrival from New Orleans. Bury, who is popular with the horsemen, is in receipt of an offer from Tulsa. Okla., to officiate there at the spring meeting, but has It under consideration pending the arrangement of dates in Canada. H. E. Brown, who developed Sammy Steele and C. Healy, whose contracts he disposed of at handsome figures, will send a division of his stable to Tulsa. This morning was a busy day at the track, horsemen registering their horses and making applications for badges and licenses. John Kramer, a Columbus man. has purchased Klaxon and will race at this meeting.
