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WAITE GATE AT HAGERSTOWN BALTIMORE, Md., Aug. 29. The C. M. Waite stall starting gates, which are used at Belmont Park and which will see service this fall at Havre de Grace, Laurel and Bowie, have been adopted for the Hagers-town Fair Associations meeting, which opens September 13 at Hagerstown. Racing secretary Edward J. Brennan also stated that Edward S. "Long Taw" Welter, who has dispatched the fields at Hagerstown since the sport was revived in the fall of 1929, will again be at the barrier. He probably will have for his assistant Bob Freund, Bill -Schamerhorn and Jay Ally. " General manager Walter D. Willson has the Hagerstown plant in readiness for the meeting and visitors to the upstate track will agree that it is one of the most comfortable of its kind in America. Following the Cumberland, Marlboro and Timonium meetings, Hagerstown will draw the best thoroughbreds and riders.
