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Board Fines Burr ,500, Suspends Him to July 2 Reverse Solons Recommendation That He Be Grounded for Season ARLINGTON PARK, Arlington Heights, June 22.— Charlie Burr, 23ryear-old Arkansas City, Kansas, rider, who was the nations leading jockey in 1951, today was fined ",500, and his suspension was continued through July 2 by the Illinois Racing Board. The .action came after a hearing this morning in the board offices at the track as a result of Burrs tampering with the scales for the fourth race on June 8 at the Balmoral-at-Washington Park meeting. The Balmoral stewards, upon discovering Burrs machinations, unanimously suspended him for the remainder of that meeting and recommended to the Illinois Racing Board that the suspension be continued through the entire Illinois racing season, which ends November 9. At the hearing this morning, the racing board, with chairman Paul Serdar and member Frank Wharton present and member William Miller absent, listened to testimony from Burrs valet, John Corcoran-clerk of scales Frederic Crafton, and state steward Ralph WTChoisser. This afternoon Choisser announced that the board had unanimously voted to reverse the stewards Continued on Page Fortr-Fka Board Fines Burr ,500, Suspends Him to July 2 Reverse Solons Recommendation That He Be Grounded for Season Continued from Page One recommendations and permit Burr to ride beginning July 3. Burr, who was leading rider at the Balmoral meeting with 28 victories, thus will have incurred a suspension of 19 racing days and a fine of ,500 for his actions. Burr was charged with fingering the scales in an attempt to make up the difference between what he weighed and what the horse he rode should have carried. Burr was seeking to avoid the carrying of several lead pads in his saddlecloth, which is the legal way to make up such differences. Burr, who normally rides -in the East, is making his first major invasion of the Midwest this season. In 1951, as a red-hot apprentice boy in the New England area, he registered 310 victories to lead all jock- eys In the country. Subsequently he was honored for this feat by the New England Turf Writers Association.
