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j WHEELING DOWNS NOTES ? j Beverly Brown, chairaian of the West Virginia commission, plans to come from Charleston to attend the closing day program at Wheeling Downs Saturday. Frank Brooks and Carl O. Schmidt, the other two members of the commission, arc already on the grounds. Dr. W. J. Sullivan, veterinarian in charge of the saliva test units at Wheeling Downs, leaves Sunday for his home in Funkstown, Md. Sullivan is the Democratic candidate for county commissioner in Washington County, Maryland. Apprentice Walter Fagan will leave for River Downs at the conclusion of the current meeting. Fagan is a New York boy and rode his first winner at this meeting. Jockey Ralph Klein, who staged a successful comeback after an absence from the saddle since an accident two years ago, has built up a large following during the Wheeling Downs meeting. Several hundred members from the Service League and Wheeling Junior League, were guests of president Walter H. Donovan and the West Virginia Jockey Club at Wheeling Downs Friday afternoon. Many of them were hostesses at luncheon parties in the turf club before the races. Jockeys W. Cook, G. Miller, J. W. Frye and several other riders will leave Sunday for Shreveport, La., to ride at the meeting opening there early in October. Jimmy Loftus, Wheeling Downs official, departs for Baltimore Monday after the close of the current meeting. Later he will go to New York to confer with the Tropical Park officials regarding the Florida racing season. William Shrewbridgc, racing secretary at Wheeling Downs, will serve as secretary of the York, Pa., meeting opening next week. Several other Wheeling officials will go to the Rolling Rock hunt meeting in western Pennsylvania, which also opens next week.
