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Omaha Officials Ready To Get Meeting Started Leigh Well Pleased With High Class of Horses at Track OMAHA, Neb., May 21. Practically all officials of this years Ak-Sar-Ben race meeting are now on the grounds and going at top speed in preparation for next Tuesdays opening, it was announced today. Registration of the 500 horses already on the grounds was started Sunday by Johnny Maluvius, assistant racing secretary, who Monday was joined by Harvey Foster, another assistant secretary: Jimmy Ferris, new custodian of the jockey room, and Eugene Schwartz, patrol judge and chief identifier. Noel Chilcutt, starter at Ak-Sar-Ben for several years past, was another arrival and immediately swung into action schooling young horses from the new Puett gate, which has been installed in the three-quarter chute. Another familiar figure now on the grounds is Otto "Brick" Torrell, official timer, who is also known as "Steve the -Clocker," and whose selections have brought joy and dismay to thousands of Ak-Sar-Ben racing patrons in former years. Associate steward Alex J. Heffernan and George Swain, another newcomer, who will serve as clerk of the scales, also arrived Tuesday. They will be joined shortly by the last of the officials, patrol judge Louis "Apples" Taber. Dick Leigh, presiding steward and racing secretary, has returned from a visit of several days to the various Chicago tracks and announced himself as well pleased with the class of horeflesh that will compete at Ak-Sar-Ben this year. "We have been careful in selecting the stables to which stalls were granted, with the result that the competition this year should be the highest class ever conducted here," said Leigh.
