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| DEATH TAKES JOHN I. DAY I Well-Known Turf Writer and Official I Passes Away in New York at Age of 68. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 17— John I. Day, for more than thirty years a racing writer I and track official, died today in Nassau j County Hospital. He was in his sixty-eighth I year. He is survived by his widow, three sons, Samuel, Donald and John, Jr., and two daughters, Dorothy and Mrs. Franklin Spier. No turf writer of his time was more respected or more universally admired than John Day. He was as well known in California as he was in Kentucky, Chicago and New York, and during his long and colorful I career he filled many offices brilliantly. He rwas turf editor of the old Morning Telegraph. He also served as sporting editor of , the Chicago Inter-Ocean for a considerable time, and these were only some of his assignments. Besides his turf writing for daily publications, the dead sportsman was a frequent contributor to magazines, and a few seasons back he wrote an entertaining biography of Edward R. Bradley, of Kentucky Derby fame, in the Saturday Evening Post. John I. Day did much to bring racing to Florida when he interested northern capital in the building of Hialeah Park. He also served as one of the officers of the Miami Jockey Club when it was organized. First vice-president of the New York Turf Writers Association, he filled the office of secretary at the time of his death. Mrs. Day is due here from Miami on the Friday plane and will confer with her sons as to funeral arrangements. The body is at Fairchilds Chapel, on Franklin St., Garden City, Long Island. His son, Samuel, with whom the turf writer and racing executive had been living, resided at 16 Kingsbridge Road, Garden City, Long Island. It is the wish of the family that no flowers be sent.
