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NAME NORTHWEST OFFICIALS Permanent Set Named for Longacres Approved by Commission. AI Hardy to Represent Washingtons Ruling Body, With Morrison and Sanders as His Associates. SEATTLE, Wash., April 1 Northwest officials for northwest racing will henceforth be the order of the day at Longacres, it was revealed on Saturday afternoon when the following setup was announced as having been approved by the Washington Horse Racing Commission: Presiding steward, representing the Washington Horse Racing Commission Al Hardy. Associate steward, representing the Washington Jockey Club Russel Sanders. Racing secretary and associate steward M. H. Morrison. Presiding judge Bobby Morris, nationally famous football referee. Starter Fred L. Cantrell. The decision to establish a permanent roster of officials was occasioned by the fact that Longacres, ever since its inception in 1933, has been a sort of training ground for California, such officials as William Quigley, Webb Everett, James C. McGill, James Gallagher and Johnny Maluvius having held their first important assignments at the Seattle race course. NEW OFFICIALS. Al Hardy, who heads the new list of officials, is in charge of the Seattle edition of Daily Racing Form and has been closely identified with racing in the northwest for nearly twenty years. Russel Sanders, associate steward, native son of Washington, will be serving his fifth season as a Longacres official. M. H. Morrison, racing secretary, Is the only outsider among the "key" men on the official staff. He will be cast in a similar role at the Bay Meadows meeting. He was racing secretary at the New Inglewood plant last season. He brings to the office many years of experience and enjoys a fine reputation wherever racing is conducted. Bobby Morris, who handled this years Rose Bowl game at Pasadena, will make his debut as placing judge, aided "and abetted by the "eye in the sky" photo-finish camera. Racing enthusiast, keen observer, thoroughly dependable, judicious in his decisions, a strict disciplinarian and immensely popular, Morris should quickly develop into a first-class racing official, just as Tom I Thorpe, leading football referee in the east, has done. REPLACES THOMAS. Fred L. Cantrell, another native son of Washington, will replace Eddie Thomas as starter. Cantrell attracted national attention through his fine work as starter at Bing Crosbys Del Mar track last summer. The Longacres season will open on Saturday, June 24, and will continue until Labor Day, running five days a week, including Sundays. Mondays and Tuesdays will be the off-days, with the exception of Tuesday, July 4, and Labor Day. Twilight racing will prevail on Wednesdays and Thursdays, first post being scheduled for 4:30. Post times on the other three days will be 2:15. During the season the week-end attractions will include three ,000 purses, five at ,500, five at ,200 and the 0,000 Long-acres Mile, which will be run on Sunday, August 27. 1
