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SCHOOLING TWO-YEAR-OLDS Wingfields Crew Begins Educational Work at Narragansett. Starter Departs for California to Visit Son " Assistants to Wear Serviceable Uniforms. PAWTUCKET, R. I., April 15. Schooling of two-year-olds began at Narragansett Park on Monday. This was under the direction of assistant starter Jack Hennessey, -who arrived at the Rhode Island Park in company with the five other members of starter George "Buddy" Wingfields ground crew. "Mr. Wingfleld has gone to Cincinnati to visit his son who is in college there," stated Hennessey, "but he has sent us on ahead with instructions to commence schooling on Monday, with particular care and attention to be paid to the" many two-year-olds, which will be making their first appearance on a race track at this spring meeting." NATIVE OF NEW ORLEANS. Hennessey, who hails from New Orleans, is making his second visit to New England, having been here with Wingfield back in 1932 when "Buddy" acted as starter for a few days at the short-lived initial meeting at Rockingham Park. His fellow crew members are Ray Ryan, of New Orleans; Jack Philips, of New Orleans; Eddie Pressy, of St, Louis, and Wade Brown, of Alexandria, Va. All are big husky fellows who have worked with Wingfield for eight years or more and who know his every move and mannerism in despatching horses from the gate. Wingfield himself will report at Narragansett on April 20 and from then on will personally supervise the schooling each morning from 6 until 9 a. m. A feature insisted upon by Wingfield that will be appreciated here, is the fact that his assistants are compelled to wear serviceable uniforms "when working at the gate quite an improvement upon the motley crews which have previously been seen in New England.
