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WHEELING DOWNS OFFICIALS Officers Approved by West Virginia Commission — Dickerson Starter. Wilmer Brinton, Jr., to Act as Associations Steward— No Commission Steward Appointed as Yet. WHEELING, W. Va., April 27.— All officials for the coming spring meeting at Wheeling Downs have been approved by the West Virginia Racing Commission, it was announced today by Edward J. Brennan, managing director of the local track, which opens a sixteen-day session on May 27. Assisting Brennan in the guidance- of Wheeling Downs for the first meeting of the year will be William Shewbridge, prominent in racing at major Maryland tracks as racing secretary; J. Gilbert Haus, as clerk of scales and placing judge, along with Henry Carroll and Shewbridge; Wilmer Brintort, Jr., as steward representing the association; James Considine, assistant mutuel plant manager at Hialeah, in charge of mutuels; Roy Dickerson, as starter, and William J. Sullivan, as veterinarian. All except Dickerson are prominent in eastern racing circles. The starter also dispatches fields at Arlington Park in Chicago. It is expected that the West Virginia Racing Commission will appoint either judge J. J. Grady or T. C. Bradley as its representative in the stewards stand. A third steward will be selected by the commission and the associations officials. The official family for the spring campaign assures the Downs sport of the finest possible management. The ability and integrity of the men chosen to serve here has placed them high among the nations turf officials.
