Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-02
SPORTS OF ALL SORTS
Horses in Active Training for
Benning Meeting.
MANYHIGH-CLASS MACS
HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC MEET A
BIG SUCCESS.
Phillies Sold at Last-Big and Little
Boxers to Fight - Monte
Carlo Chess Tourney.
MANYHIGH-CL GLASS MACS

Three weeks from today will see the
opening of the racing season in the east,
Monday, March 3d. being the Opening day
of the spring meeting Of the Washington
Jockey Club.
There will be twenty days high-class
sport at Washington, and then the scene
will Shift to the tracks around New York
city The spring meeting Of the Washing
ton Jockey Club promises to be by far the
best ever held in the District of Columbia,
as the size of the purses and stakes has
been materially increased, thus insuring
higher class Of horses than ever before.
Another thing that will materially improve
the class show at Washington is the gener-
ally growing tendency Of the large and I'M
portant stables to winter in the south,
which enables them to have their horses
thoroughly fit for the early meetings. Mr..
August Belmont winters his large stable at
Garnett, 8. c., and this stable will be seen
in force at Washington. John w. Schorr,
the Memphis turfman. has engaged fifteen
stalls for the spring meeting. The Cough
acres stable Is wintering at Cape Charles.
Virginia. and reports come that they are
fit and ready. With these horses the large
New Orleans contingent and the horses now
at the track, the fields should be large and
the sport high-class from the opening day
until the Tuesday after Easter-the last
track with the stable Of F. r. Hitchcock.
jr., including Grey Friar, Sergeant and Cas-
lillian William Garth has stable Of if
teen. including Imperialist. Arius. Black
Dick Concertina and Dusky Secret The
Columbia stable has six, Of which Toscan.
Gloriosa and Red Damsel are the stars.
Gwynne Tompkins has Douro, Flaccus,
Gum Honey, Orion. Lavltor. Walter Cleary
and ten others j. ]. Mackessey has Curt
sey and All Souls. Charles Ray has Auto,
Miss Lobster and Hackensack, Auto being
John E. Madden's steeplechase candidate.
Allie Gates has the horses of G. W. Cook,
Including Benckart. Orontas. Merriment,
Jerry, Mango and Nida. V. P. Powers has
a large stable, of which Slideil, Gwyn and
Old Glory will be remembered by Washing
ton patrons.
Trainer Baldwin has Circus, the Mont
gomery handicap winner of 1902. Sissy and
Lorena at the Havenner place, just outside
the track.
Superintendent Strahan has received ap-
plcation for over five hundred stalls, and
for the first time In the history Of spring
meeting stable room will be at premium.
The Benning spring handicaps have fifty
entries each, as against thirty-eight, the
largest number Of any previous year.
Washington and Baltimore are we'll repre-
scented in the handicaps, the Columbia sta
bles, Mr.. Robert Neville and Mr.. Robert
Taylor being among the nomnators.
The special race trains from Baltimore
make the Benning meeting almost as mucS
Baltimores as Washingtons, as the run
ming time from Baltimore Is but forty min
utes and the time from Washington about
twenty.
From the number and quality of the
steeplechasers now at Benning the field
should be larger and better than ever be-
fore. Especially will this be true of the
hunters steeplechasers, more than half the
Jumpers at the track being qualified hunt