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ONE MAN RACING COMMISSION State Senator Edward J. Fenelon, Jr., Appointed Chief of Sport in" Rhode Island. PAWTUCKET, R. I., May 15.— State Senator Edward J. Fenelon, Jr., of Westerly, R. I., named yesterday as chief of the division of horse racing in the department of taxation and regulation by director Thomas A. Kennelly, took his oath of office this morning. This ponderous announcement, translated into plain every-day language, simply means that "Hap" Fenelon, most rabid sports fan in Rhode Island and a keen student of horse racing, has become the one-man racing commission of the biggest little state in the Union. Fenelon knows sports from A to Z. Horse racing has always attracted him, and, like Walter Donovan, the Florida commissioner who made such a success, "Hap" has made an intensive study of the game and steps into office well equipped to handle its many problems. That he will be popular with ail whom he comes into contact goes without | saying. Senator Fenelon will be assisted by Sen- j ator Francis J. Kiernan, Senator Russell | Handy and Thomas F. Kane. All are experienced officials, and the new set-up should j prove one of the smoothest working bodies of its kind in the country.
