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CALL OFF DAYTON MEETING Ohio Racing Commission Revokes Its Permit — Riot of Last Saturday Brings Summary Action. DAYTON, Ohio, June 25.— The summer race meeting of the Dayton Jockey Club, originally scheduled to run until Saturday, came to a close before the first race today by order of the Ohio State Racing Commission, which revoked its permit pending further investigation of events which culminated in a riot after the eighth race here Saturday. The racing commission, which convened today at Columbus, sent to Neil Reighburn, commission inspector here, the following order: "By ruling of the Ohio State Racing Commission, permit for the Dayton Jockey Club is hereby suspended pending further investigation. Signed "George E. Gates, Secretary. "Ohio State Racing Commission." Horace Baggett, vice-president of the Dayton Jockey Club, said in the face of the com-i missions ruling, no further attempt would 1 he made to proceed with the meeting, which had been one of the most successful con-; ducted in Ohio in several years. Whether Baggett and his associates would attempt to conduct a meeting here in the fall, could not be ascertained although the Montgomery County Fair Board, lessor of the grounds, indicated it would not let out its property again for running races. Reports that plans were being formulated for the construction of a privately owned I race track here also could not be verified, although several interested in this meeting ■ indicated that such a project has been considered. Indication that the meeting here would be i ended today by the racing board was given ; Monday night when James Shevlin and ! George Blocker, members of that body, com-1 pleted their inquiry into the running of I the eighth race Saturday when two horses ! including the odds-on Corida were left at the post. The subsequent demonstration of spec-j tators, who demanded return of money I wagered on the horses prompted the Fair I Board to ask the racing commission to in-I vestigate the affair. Shevlin and Blocker, in a statement to the I press, said that they found no evidence of I fraud in their all-day examination of wit-j nesses and were unable to uncover any irregularities in connection with this meeting but added that in their opinion, the meeting ■ should be suspended at this time. That was the recommendation they said they would make before the commission meeting today at Columbus. When announcement over the public address system that the meeting had been suspended, several hundred patrons already had entered the grounds. Their admission and program charges were refunded. No disorder attended todays proceedings.
