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Hold Theodore J. Knapp Funeral Services Today Members of Racing Commission, Other Turf Notables to Attend NEW YORK, N. Y., May 8.— Funeral services for Theodore J. Knapp, late president of the Queens County Jockey Club, operators of Aqueduct race track, will be held at St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue at 53rd St., tomorrow morning and he will be interred at Woodlawn Cemetery. The services will be attended by Ashley T. Cole, chairman of the New York Racing Commission, and fellow commissioners, David Dows and William C. Langley. Commission steward Francis P. Dunne and secretary Harry Millar will also attend, as well as Cyrus S. Jullien, vice-president of Aqueduct; George D. Widener, president of Belmont Park; James Butler and Luke OBrien of Empire City and John A. Morris, president of Jamaica, as well as a multitude of other officials, owners and other figures of the turf world. The following statement was issued this morning by Cyrus S. Jullien, vice-president of the Queens County Jockey Club: "The regretable death of Mr. Theodore J. Knapp comes as a profound shock to his associates in the Queens County Jockey Club by whom he was held in affectionate esteem. As president of the club since 1941 he gave tangible expression to an inherited and lifelong interest in maintaining the finest traditions of the American turf and in adopting them in modern racing conditions. Under his leadership the club enjoyed its greatest prosperity. "His forthright approach to all problems, his integrity and his intolerance of subterfuge or compromise was reflected in his successful conduct of the clubs affairs. His death is a great loss to the American turf and to the club which he served with such great ability and distinction."
