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ig. y- Mere y.g iy 8 ■ Man, - j I m ■2 12.40 4.40 40 Co- " = SEATTLE SITE OF CONVENTION J 1 j I Mid -Summer Gathering of National 1 Assn. of Racing Commissioners Set for July 28-29-30. NEW YORK, N. Y., June 16.— Dates for , the mid-summer convention of the National il , Association of State Racing Commissioners s were announced officially today by commissioner 1- John Sloan of New York, presi- i- dent of the nationwide organization of racing 2- states. The convention will be held in n Seattle, Wash., July 28, 29 and 30. It is the eleventh meeting of the association rr and will mark the first get-together of the commissioners in the far West. The Washington Horse Racing Board, consisting J of chairman Edwin J. Brown, past president of the national association; Allen * Drumheller, George Faltico and William F. James, Jr., secretary, are preparing an elaborate program. The convention will be held Id in conjunction with Seattles annual "Pot-latch" t- festival, the Mardi Gras of the ie Pacific Northwest. LOOKING AHEAD. - "We are looking forward to another con- n ; j structive session," president Sloan said, in ■ announcing the dates. "A number of im-1 j portant matters are to be discussed. These 3e ; I meetings also prove of value in that they ■•y give the visiting commissioners an insight ■* I ! into racing problems in the various sections 1S of the country. Enroute to the convention, ■■ , I many of the commissioners plan to attend ld I the races at the Hollywood Turf Club, also 30 I inspect Santa Anita, while others expect to t0 visit the Del Mar track on their way home. e- Others intend to stop off in San Francisco :o to look over Bay Meadows and Tanforan. n. | ! Seattles own track, Longacres, will play iy j j host to the commissioners during convention n , week." j There are twenty-one states and the Republic e- t of Cuba affiliated with the National al , Association of State Racing Commissioners, *s. j I Officers named at the annual meeting, in in j Miami, last winter, were commissioner John in ■ Sloan of New York, president; commissioner is- Beverly Broun of West Virginia, first st vice-president; commissioner Leonard Rich- h- I | ards of Delaware, second vice-president, and ; Tom R. Underwood, Kentucky, secretary. — A
