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TOM THORP HEADS OFFICIALS New Yorker Presiding Steward at Narragansett Park Course. Howard Reynolds and Charles B Stickney Associate Stewards Harry Morrissey to Preside at Barrier. PAWTUCKET, R. I., April 7. Walter E. OHara, president and managing director of Narragansett Park, today named the officials who will preside at the spring meeting, which opens the New England racing season on Saturday, May 2. Presiding in the stewards stand will be Tom Thorp, and the popular New Yorker is due to receive a rousing reception from his myriad friends on returning to these parts. A huge banquet is being planned for Thorp, at which prominent football coaches will vie with horsemen in expressing their good will for the big fellow. Associated with Thorp in the stand will be Howard Reynolds, Boston newspaper man and for many years a racing enthusiast, and Charles B. Stickney, ex-lumber magnate and trotting horseman from Nashua, N. H. Rhode Island racing laws call for the appointment of a state steward, but this official will not be named until a racing commissioner has been nominated to fill the place of James C. Thornton, who recently resigned from this office to accept a responsible post at the Agawam track. Vince Treanor, former New York sports writer; Fred Crafton, popular Middle West official, and Walter Moriarty, former newspaper man of New York, will be placing judge, with Moriarty doubling up as clerk of the scales. Bryan Steele, former ace rider, is named as paddock judge, and will hook up with Andy Blakely, Jr., to share duties of patrol judges. Dr. E. J. Cole of Pawtucket, R. I., continues in his old role as track veterinarian. The old master, Harry Morrissey, will be in the starters stand to send the horses on their way and Harrys return to robust health has been the cause for much rejoicing around these parts while Pat Horgan, in addition to his duties as racing secretary, will act as the official handicapper. Others directly connected with Narragan-setts racing department that have been re-named are Bill Owens, custodian of the jockeys room; Bob Turner, parade leader, and "Smiling Dan" Corkery, in charge of horsemens mail.
