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t AGAWAM TURF NOTES f In the scurry for suitable race material stables have been brought in from Pimlico, Aurora, Narragansett and Belmont Park. All day Monday and Tuesday thoroughbreds arrived hourly to make Agawam Park a beehive of activity as the runners were placed in their stalls to rest up for the thrilling cry "Theyre off," which will resound over Agawam Park Wednesday at 2:15 p. m., post time for the first race of a thirty-seven day meeting. "Ty" Shea, placing judge, spent the weekend in New York signing up some of the prominent stables racing at Belmont Park. Starter Ira Gregory began schooling horses Monday, using the new fourteen-stall Waite gate, which arrived from Pimlico last week. George Brown, Jr., dean of the presiding stewards of American race tracks, who has officiated on Illinois, Florida, Rhode Island and Maryland tracks, came from Pimlico to undertake his duties as chief steward of Agawam Park. One of the noted visitors at the track was trainer Frank Farrar, who has been connected with horse racing for forty years and is known as one of the outstanding trainers in the country. Mr. Farrar stopped in at Agawam on his way from California. Many New Englanders will remember that memorable race on September 2 last year, when Captain Argo, owned by Joe E. Brown and trained by Frank Farrar, beat the mighty Sation, one of the fastest sprinters in the thoroughbred world, by a head, in a race where both horses were only a head apart from the barrier to the finish. Mr. Farrar complimented the track authorities on the condition of the track and predicted a successful meeting for Agawam .Park. John P. Turner, Sri, one of the stewards, arrived from Maryland Tuesday.
