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SHIPPING TO NARRAGANSETT Horses Arriving Daily at Popular Rhode Island Track. 4 Pari-Mutuel Director Morfc Shaw Among Official Arrivals Harry Morrissey Expected This Week. PAWTUCKET, R. I., April 24 From all sections of the turf world, Narragansetts official family is converging upon Rhode Island to prepare for the seasons grand opening scheduled for Saturday, May 2. Pari-mutuel director Mort Shaw rolled in over the week-end from an automobile crosscountry jaunt, which began at Santa Anita, Calif. With time on his hands between meetings, Shaw combined business with pleasure and stopped over to inspect conditions in Chicago, Hot Springs, Texas, Kentucky and Maryland. The popular "tote" boss finds an optimistic note among his widely scattered business acquaintances and a positive enthusiasm for the coming summers racing season. And Mort Shaw is a keen observer. Joe Stevens, famous concessionaire of the nations leading race tracks and ball parks, was on hand this morning to supervise his preparations. One of the shrewdest judges in the world of future happenings, Stevens forecasts a peak year for horse racing in New England. Another arrival from New York was Harry I. Day, electrical wizard, who will supervise the installation and operation of the electric eye. Incidentally, New England is tremendously interested in the working of this scientific adjunct to racing. Walter Moriarty, who will serve as a placing judge and clerk of the scales, also arrived from Santa Anita, via the Texas route. Horace Wade, the young Texan, who calls the races at Narragansett via the public address system, traveled in over the road from Alamo Downs, where he acted as chief assistant to general manager Raymond Russell. The old master, Harry Morrissey will leave his home at Redwood City, Calif., this week Narragansett bound, and he sends word ahead he will be ready to school horses at the new Bahr gate commencing next Monday morning. Joe Nelson will accompany Morrissey and act as his chief assistant throughout the season. The first of the riders to show at Narragansett was the Toronto, Canada, boy, Gordon Atkins, who is under contract to Connie Smythe, the firebrand hockey magnate, who has four horses here in training.
