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Official Family At Thistle Down Capable Group of Turfmen Will Administer Sport at Popular Cleveland Track CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 26.-4Edward P. Strong, general manager of the Thistle Down Racing Association, which organization will conduct a 31-day meeting at its local course beginning Saturday, May 30, and concluding July 4, announced the official roster here today. The sport at Thistle Down will be administered by a most capable group of men, all of whom have long been identified with thoroughbred racing. Stewards for the impending session will be James F. Gallagher, well known West Coast official, and Harry Allshouse, who has been with the Forest City .track since t has been under its present management. While Allshouse is a veteran as far as Cleveland racing is concerned, Gallagher is a newcomer and he will make his first appearance in the local pagoda. Both men have had long experience in racing and they should handle their assignments in pleasing fashion. The appointment of Gallagher and Allshouse met with the approval fo the public and horsemen as well. Charles F. Henry, racing secretary for Thistle Down, will be unable to come to Cleveland due to the fact that he is serving t in a like capacity at the Detroit Fair Grounds. Henrys assistant, L. Henderson Van Zandt, will be on hand, however, to look after the duties of racing secretary. Van Zandt is wtfll acquainted with the local situation for he served here previously as Henrys assistant and as a placing judge. He will be in. the stand again during the 1942 spring meeting. Judges of Meeting Serving in the stand with Van Zandt will be genial Frank Otis and Dr. L. M. Holmes. Otis is a regular with the Thistle Down Jockey Club and he also will attend to the duties of clerk of scales. Dr. Holmes is widely known in the Midwest as a top official and his appointment as placing and paddock judge was a popular one. Clay Puett, who is credited with the development of the Puett electric starting gate, will dispatch the fields during the" month-long meeting. Puett is not only well known as the builder of the first enclosed gates, but he enjoys a reputation as one of the finest starters in the nation. Puett is already on hand and has his equipment in shape for the inaugural day racing. Charles "Chuck" Bang, son of the noted sports writer, Ed Bang, has been signed to handle the microphone on the public address system. Young Bang has had considerable experience as a sports commentator and he is well known to sports enthusiasts of the Forest City. Bang also wilL assist in the racing secretarys office; Other appointments announced by Strong are: Xinsey Jordan, cuslodian of the jockey room; John Travick, timer and identifier of horses, and Wilmer Fisher, outrider. Fisher will do double duty at the local track, for he is a capable member of secretary Henrys office staff. In the meantime, stables are arriving from many points, several units having put in their appearance after shipment from Kentucky and Illinois and others from eastern sectors. Track supterintendent J. Oliver Brown predicted today that all space will be in use when the bugle sounds here Saturday for the resumption of racing at popular Thistle Down.
