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Baybrook Never Headed in Fleming N ASRC Opens Annual Convention Holding FourDay Confab in Boston BostonDelegates Delegates of Various States And Turf Organizations Will Take Up Problems of Sport SportBy By CHARLES HATTON HATTONBOSTON BOSTON Mass June 6 The adminis ¬ tration of the nations vast industralized thoroughbred sport were assembling here in the Hub of the Universe today for the nineteenth convention of the National As ¬ sociation of State Raping Commissioners All indications point to one of the most constructive and objective forums in the history of the racing commissipners associ ¬ ation President D Thomas Testa will call the first of the four days business sessions to order at 930 a m Monday in the Sheraton Plaza Hotel headquarters of this convention That the meetings will have large representative attendances is assured from the fact that this week end 127 racing commissioners and their guests and dele ¬ gates of all other United States turf and bloodstock organizations had made reserva ¬ tions These plus several visiting turf fig ¬ ures from Havana Mexico and Canada the press and 22 members of the Associa ¬ tion of Official Racing Chemists ChemistsRhode Rhode Island Day Sunday SundaySunday Sunday is Rhode Island Day for the delegates who will be the guests of the neighboring states racing and athletics commission and the management of the Lincoln Downs and Narragansett racing associations During the morning and afternoon Monday they are to hear reports from committees who have made studies of such very pertinent matters as public relations night racing uniform rules in ¬ ternational relations offcourse wagering state revenues and legislation Additionally DrTrank R Menne will make his treas ¬ urers report Mrs A E Smith the secre ¬ tarys report A nominating committee also is to be appointed during the day with election of officers taking place Wednesday morning The commissioners will be wel welConlinued Conlinued on Page FortyTwo Open NASRC Nineteenth Convention in Boston BostonDiscuss Discuss Turfs Various Problems At Annual FourDay Confab ConfabContinued Continued from Page One Onecorned corned by Mayor John B Hynes of this an ¬ cient and aristocratic city cityThere There will be open forums on Tuesday and Wednesday when racings solons will hear spokesmen from the Thoroughbred Club of America American Trainers As ¬ sociation National Association of Thor ¬ oughbred Breeders The Jockey Club Horsemens Benevolent and Protective As ¬ sociation American Quarter Horse Associa ¬ tion Daily Racing Form Thoroughbred Racing Association of the TJnited States the Jockeys Guild Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau The Jockey Club Foun ¬ dation Home Turf Publicists of America and the New England Turf Writers Asso ¬ ciation Some of these addresses are ex ¬ pected to take quite a provocative turn as it is learned unofficially representatives of various of the horsemens groups have sug ¬ gestions to be advanced in the hope of ap ¬ proval and general acceptance by the com ¬ missioners missionersAs As for the committee reports it seems un ¬ likely the racing commissions thinking on offcourse betting to which they are of course unalterably opposed will undergo any change And in general they have been inclined to take a dim view also of night racing and the spiralling trend of tote commissions commissionsFor For diversion the commissioners will at ¬ tend a cocktail party Monday as guests of the American Totalisator Co the races at Suffolk Downs Tuesday and Wednesday a dinner Tuesday as guests of Daily Racing FormThe Morning Telegraph and Wednesday as guests of the Massachusetts Racing Commission and associations Final adjournment of the business sessions will come at 1030 a m Thursday after which the commissioners will have luncheon and dinner at WentworthbytheSea as guests of the New Hampshire Commission and Rockingham Park ParkThe The commissioners wives will be whisked off on a tour of the more historical sights around Boston town on Monday and ar ¬ rangements have been completed for spe ¬ cial bus service for those who wish to at ¬ tend the races at Suffolk that afternoon afternoonAmong Among those having reservations for the convention are such veterans of these things as Louisianas A S Drew Illinois Frank Warton Nebraskas Earl J Moyer New Yorks Ashley Cole New Jerseys High Mehorter and of course president Testa of Rhode Island Also present is past pres ¬ ident Walter Donovan Representing the Thoroughbred Club of America is George Swinebroad while Marshall Cassidy is The Jockey Clubs spokesman Robert O Read representing the HBPA the TRA will be represented by John A Morris Daily Racing FormThe Morning Telegraph by J Samuel Perlman the TRPB by Spencer Drayton Edward Coffey and Vincent Mur ¬ phy the AmericanTotalisator Co by George Gillett and Ector and Charles Munn the Jockeys Guild by Bert Thompson and Ike Bassett the Pinkerton Detective Agency by Bob Pinkerton From Mexico has come Sr Oscar Obregon and from Havana Dr Miguel Perez Pita Prof F D White repre ¬ sents the Prarie Thoroughbred Breeders and Racing Association of Canada Angel Pesquera the Comision Hipica de Puerto Rico Francisco Astaburuaga Ariztia the Club Hipico de Santiago of Chile C C Calder and Oswald Steele the Kingston Jamaica Jockey Club ClubThe The convention of the Association of Official Racing Chemists a virtual arm of the NASRC also will have an international assemblage Ralph Bull of Toronto Dr Frank White of Winnipeg Dr Solomon Moleres of Mexico and Dr G H W Lucas of Ontario are present for the chemists discussions
