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Hold Lewis E. Waring Rites in New York Today Jersey Commission, United Hunts Head Stricken Leaving Office NEW YORK, N. Y., May 21.— Funeral services for Lewis E. Waring, chairman of the New Jersey Racing Commission and president of the United Hunts Racing Association, who suddenly succumbed to a heart attack yesterday, will be held at 10:30 a. m., Monday, at the Church of the Incarnation, Madison Avenue and Thirty-Fifth Street, New York City. Interment will be private. Racing circles, in which he had been a prominent figure for many years, were shocked by the passing of Waring. He had been active in turf affairs to the very end. His secretary was driving him from his office at the United Hunts, 250 Park Avenue, to his home at 155 East Seventy-Second Street, when he was stricken. His secretary drove to the office of Warings physician, Dr. Asa L. Lincoln, 660 Park Avenue, but Waring was dead when the reached the office. Waring, long was active in amateur hunt clubs, steeplechasing and flat racing. For 20 years he was an officer of the United Hunts Racing Association, serving as secretary-treasurer and then as president, succeeding Raymond Guest in the latter office in 1941. He was appointed to the New Jersey Racing Commission by Gov. Charles Edison in 1942 and became chairman in 1947. and last year was reappointed for a six-year term. His first wife, Mrs. Louise Fisk Waring, died in 1939. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Margaret Haskell Waring, a son; C. J. Waring, three brothers, Orville G., Richard S. and Edward J. Waring, and four sisters, Mrs. Lewis G. Thompson, Mrs. Theodore Reynolds, Mrs. Charles Dorrance and Mrs. J. Hartley Mellick.
