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1 NARRAGANSETT TURF NOTES | ., 4 Work of installing the 14,000 seats in the grandstand at Narragansett Park, Rhode Islands new ,000,000 race track, is under way, and Friday more than 5,000 were in place. Henry L. Straus, inventor of the totalizator, has a crew of six experts whom he carries with him from track to track to install the miles of wires and thousands of bulbs in each new tote." Straus refuses to call them electricians, describing them as "scientists." He insists they are "electrical scientists." Terafice, Abe Bartelsteins stake horse which has been burning up the track at Rockingham Park, will be campaigned at Narragansett Park. The bay won the White Mountain Handicap Wednesday at the Salem track.
