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SAUNDERS DENIED LICENSE - f 1 Application of Jockey Who Rode Omaha in 1935 Tabled. Latonia Jockey Clubs Bequest for Longer Meeting Granted List of Officials Named and Approved. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 25. Jockey Willie Saunders, who rode Omaha to victory in the Kentucky Derby last year, was denied a license to ride on Kentucky tracks by the Kentucky State Racing Commission, which met here last night. The commissions license committee, composed of Charles F. Price, C. Bruce Head and Thomas C. Bradley, recommended that Saunders application be tabled and the commission accepted all recommendations of the committee. The refusal of license to Saunders is the result of unfavorable publicity he received, following the death of Mrs. Evelyn Sliwinski, a companion on the night of October 19, last, when Saunders was here to -fill a stakes engagement at Churchill Downs. The body of Mrs. Sliwinski was found on a road near this city and it was alleged that she had been run down by an automobile. Walter Schaeffer, an exercise boy in the employ of H. P. Headley, Kentucky turfman for whom Saunders had come here to ride, was indicted for murder and Saunders for accessory to murder.. Subsequently, Schaeffer was acquitted and the case against Saunders dismissed. The application -of the Latonia Jockey Club to hold a spring and early summer meeting of thirty-seven days, instead of twenty-five was approved by the commission. Latonia will open on Saturday, May 23,- and close with the racing of Saturday, July 4. Originally, the commission granted Latpnias request for twenty-five days. The commission also named Samuel C. Nuckols, Kentucky official, as a stewarL to serve with Charles F. Price, C. Bruce. Head and Samuel l McMeekin at Churchill Downs and Latonia, Nuckols succeeds Elijah Hogge. V . Other racing officials to serve at the twd tracks were approved at a previous meeting. Another new appointee of the turf board is W. S. Hughes, of Versailles, to succeed John McLaughlin, of, Lexington, as supervisor of mutuels.f Dr. J. H. Reister was named veterinarian and Everett H. Crawley as chemist. Edward J. Gnau was named telegraph censor at all Kentucky tracks. The commission approved the action of stewards of Churchill Downs upon licenses submitted after the meeting of the license committee and in this connection tabled the application of Frank Chiavetta for a trainers license. The application of Frank Bur-ley, for a jockeys license, also was tabled, while those of J. L. Butler, G. Ledermeier and F. J. Mormile, trainers, and R. Cheatham, W. Lilley and W. Moran were held for further consideration. Col. M. J. Winn, executive director of Churchill Downs and Latonia, who attended the meeting, expressed appreciation of the co-operation of the commission with Churchill Downs and Latonia. All members of the commission were present. They are Polk Laffoon, chairman, S. Sewell Combs, T. E. Mueller, William E. Smith, Frazer D. LeBus, and T. R. Underwood, secretary.
