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ALL-AROUND UTILITY MAN George Swain Rated Fastest Entry Clerk in the Business Fills Other Positions Also. NEW ORLEANS, La., Dec. 3 Some thirty years ago George Swain, now an attache of the racing secretarys office at the Fair Grounds, ranked among the best reinsmen of the country and sported the silks at the Crescent City Jockey Clubs track. One of the fondest memories that Swain cherishes is his seven consecutive victories astride the good mare Mollei Montrose during that era. Swain, who formerly rode for Col. E. R. Bradley during the heighth of his career in the saddle, has adopted New Orleans as his home, but it was in Illinois several years ago that he embarked on a career in the secretarial end of the racing profession, serving as entry clerk on virtually all of the Illinois tracks as well as at Keeneland In Kentucky. In addition to entry clerk, Swain attends the preferred list which is larger at the Fair Grounds during the winter racing session than at any other track in the country, and the former jockey has been the recipient of many congratulations for the minute manner in which the list is handled. Swain is a fixture at all of the Cattarinich-Eddy tracks, which in addition to the local Fair Grounds, includes Aurora and Fair-mount Park. Although there was a conflict of several days between Fairmount Park and Washington Park, Swain was permitted to finish out the meeting at the latter track before reporting to Fairmount for his duties at that point. Swain bears the reputation of being one of the fastest entry clerks in the business and has at various times substituted at other duties, thus making him an all-around utility man.
