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ASK DATES FOR A6AWAM i i | PIMLICO, Md., April 29.— It was I learned here today that a group of J sportsmen headed by James C. Thorn- I ton, former racing commissioner of I Rhode Island, will apply for dates to j conduct a meeting at Agawam, Mass., j beginning May 27. If the proposed 1 meeting is held, Edward Brennan of 2 Baltimore and Mortimer Mahony of J the same city, are expected to serve as I secretary and mutuel manager respect- | | ively for the meeting at the Massachu- I setts plant. M. C. Shea, another resi- of Maryland, will also be included ident In the official family with others to be I named later. Thornton, according to | advices, will inform horsemen that | money guaranteeing purses for the con- ! templated meeting has already been de- j posited in a bank and that debts con- I tracted by former operators of Agawam I will be cleared up by a court order and I through the approval of the Massachu- j setts racing commission.
