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Wade Resigns Publicity Position at Monmouth Retaining Connection With Both Gulfstream and Hazel ParkTracks MONMOUTH PARK, Oceanport, N. J., June 27. — Horace Wade, publicity chief at Monmouth Park since the tracks revival in 1946, has resigned his post effective August 10, it was learned here today. General manager Edward J. Brennan, in announcing Wades resignation, stated that he had been the first man employed by him at Monmouth Park, and tfiat he was accepting the resignation "with considerable regret." In addition to his Monmouth duties, Wade also is associated with Gulfstream Park in the triple assignment of publicity director, racing secretary and director of racing, and with Hazel Park, Mich., as racing secretary. He is retaining his connection with both of these tracks/ Wade, one of the best known publicity representatives on the turf, has many friends among the racing scribes. He has helped make the Oceanport track one of the best known on the turf, and is also among the better "idea" men in racing1. His Monmouth Park brochures always attracted considerable interest on the turf. Although better known for his publicity and racing secretarial assignments, Wade also has authored three novels, a stage play, more than a dozen motion pictures and upwards of 800 magazine stories and articles. No successor to Wade has yet been named or contemplated, according to general manager Brennan.
