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RETAIN KEENELAND OFFICERS Eleven-Day Spring Meeting Reported Most Successful in the History of Track — Plan Improvements. LEXINGTON, Ky., May 23.— At a meeting of the Keeneland Association directors, with president Hal Price Headley presiding, at Keeneland race course, late yesterday afternoon, all officers of the association were reelected. In addition to president Headley, they are: Dr. Fred Rankin and A. B. Gay, vice presidents; William H. Courtney, treasurer; Brownell Combs, secretary; Roy Car-ruthers, general manager; W. T. Bishop, assistant treasurer, and Miss Martha Lawson Brown, assistant secretary. The directors present were Messrs. Head-ley, Gay, Rankin, Combs, Warren Wright, Victor K. Dodge, William Rembry, J. O. Keene, Theodore H. Kirk, James M. Molloy, Thomas Piatt, L. B. Shouse, and Judge Richard R. Stoll. WEATHER rOOR. The recent eleven-day spring meeting, according to a report read to the directors, was the most successful since the opening of the track in the. fall of 1936, notwithstanding bad weather and higher purse distribution. It was decided that a number of changes will be made in the grandstand during this summer to permit easier handling of the attendance on big days. There will be a rearrangement of the pari-mutuel plant to permit easier access to the sellers and cashiers wickets. The press stand is to be relocated on the roof of the grandstand. The race course is also to have attention in a number of places to improve its drainage. It was not definitely decided, but it was intimated that the minimum purse for the meeting next fall will be 00. At the spring meeting there was an increase in this respect from 00 to 00. There was no announcement as to probable dates for the fall meeting.
