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PRICES 53RD YEAR ON TURF Veteran American Turf Association Official Returns From Florida Ready for Seasons Work. LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 20. Ready to begin his fifty-third year of service on the turf, Charles Franklin Price, eminent Kentucky racing official, returned from his winter home in Naples on the Gulf, Florida, and is assisting in preparations for the racing during the Churchill Downs spring meeting. Judge Price is steward in charge of racing at all tracks operated by the American Turf Association, of which Col. M. J. Winn is president, and despite his many years, continues to be very active. He is enjoying splendid health and from all appearances should continue in harness for many more years. Judge Price has threatened to retire from racing on a number of occasions, but invariably his love and interest in the sport has prevented him from carrying out such intentions. He is now in his eighty-second year, but horsemen and jockeys will tell you that little escapes his notice as he sits in judgment of their actions at Churchill Downs, Lincoln Fields and Latonia. While he carries out to the letter all rules of racing and during his long career has made many rulings, he has never been accused of being unfair, and he is admired and respected by all the racing fraternity.
