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Santa Anita Meeting To Open December 27 Granted 50-Day Meet by Board; Approve Hollywood Park Officials LOS ANGELES, Calif., May 16.— At a meeting of the California Horse Racing Board, held yesterday morning in the State Building, racing officials for the Hollywood Park meeting were formally approved: Santa Anita was granted a license and dates for its next session; and the status of the Pacific Turf Club at Albany was held up for another ten days. In the absence of chairman Loyd Wright, who is out of town on business, Dwight Murphy presided as chairman, with commissioner Nion Tucker also present. The officials approved for the Hollywood Park meeting of fifty days, which runs May 24 through August 2, were as follows: Chester C Jones, steward representing the California Horse Racing Board, will also serve as presiding steward for the Hollywood Park meeting. Associate stewards will be Wendell P. Cassidy, W. C. Buchanan, James J. M. Tunney, and R. E. Leighninger. Other officials approved were racing secretary and handicapper, John R. Malu-vius; assistant racing secretaries, Herman Sharpe and George C Zarelli; starter, G. R. Wingfield: paddock judge, James C. McGill; assistant paddock judge, William Mills; placing judges, R. E. Leighninger, George D. Murphy and Joseph E. Walter: patrol judges and field judges, Andrew Ferguson, John Maiben, Edward F. Hayes, Albert Shelhamer, John J. Smith, George C Zarelli and Nicholas Wall; performance observer-supervisor, Louis Taber; performance analyst department office-manager, Norman Stevens, and clerk of the scales, Robert V. Rossi. The dates allocated Sanita Anita run from December 27, 1947, through March 6, 1948, for a total of 50 days, including five charity days. There will be no racing on Sundays and Mondays and there will be one dark Tuesday. Concerning the proposed meeting of the Pacific Turf Club at Albany from September 9, through October 25, Edward D. Young, president, appeared before the board and said that the plant would be ready for the dates assigned but that, in his judgment, they could not put on the best type of meeting. There was talk of a switch of dates with Bay Meadows, but attorney William Horn-blower, of the San Mateo track, said that Bay Meadows could not take the Albany dates and start before October 4. The plan was subsequently abandoned. The board then gave the Pacific Turf Club 10 days to make a complete report on what condition the track would be in by September 9. When this report is sent in, the board will convene again and decide definitely as to whether to grant dates or not.
