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CHURCHILL DOWNS OFFICIALS Sam McMeekin, Thomas Oliphant and Harry L. Liridenberger Appointed to Louisville Posts. ! LOUISVILLE, Ky.r. April 27. Samuel H. McMeekin, Thomas Oliphant and Harry L. Lindenberger, all of Louisville, two of them identified with Churchill Downs racing for many years, have been appointed to new positions in the Downs official family, it was announced at a meeting of the Kentucky Racing Commission here Friday evening. McMeekin, formerly clerk of the scales and placing judge, will serve in the stewards stand with Charles F. Price and C. Bruce Head. Lindenberger, formerly connected with the business office of the track, has been appointed clerk of the scales and placing judge, and Oliphant will succeed the late Dan R. Chawk as paddock judge. The three men will fill similar positions at Latonia. James E. Hogge, steward at the start; William H. Shelley, racing secretary-handl-capper and placing judge; Sherman Good-paster, placing judge; William Hamilton, starter, and Dr. J. Bradley; veterinary-paddock judge, were, reappointed. . Dr. F. H. Riester of Beuchel, Ky., t has been appointed official veterinarian of the racing commission, and E. H. Crawley, Louisville chemist, will make the saliva analysis. The commission, after reading the recommendations of the license committee, approved the applications of twenty-one trainers, forty-one jockeys, tewlve. apprentices and five agents. It voted to grant licenses as trainers to C. A. Grande and C. Hyde Smith, whose applications had been recommended for tabling. Upholding the license committee, the commission held "for further consideration" the license applications of Daniel Brice, Richard Fischer, H. W. Fischer, Walter S. Lilley, Tom Price and Herman Schutte, jockeys, and Robert Wingfield, trainer. Applications of nineteen trainers and one authorized agent "were held up for iden-tifaction and those of four apprentices held until copies of their contracts have been filed with the commission. The applications of Charles Hainesworth for jockey and trainers license, was approved, the first such dual license granted in Kentucky. He plans to ride the horses he is training for his wife. Polk Laffoon, chairman; William E. Smith, vice chairman; Sewell Combs and Theodore 1. Mueller were the commission-era present at the meeting. Frazer Lebus was the only absentee.
