Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-23
TURF WAR
CARDEO FOR MARYLAND
New Track to Be Opened in
Prince George County May
Be OutlaWed.

NEW YORK. July 23.-UnIess a truce
is patched up, Maryland may be the
scene of bitter turf war between
Pimiico and new race track now
under construction in Prince George
county. to be called New Marlboro
Park. The promoters of this new ven
ture have organized under the name of
the Southern Maryland Racing Associ-
alton. with Arthur n. Elrod general
manager, and with the sanction of the
Southern Jockey Club "A twenty day
meeting will be inaugurated Septem-
Der rs. New Marlboro Park is forty
minutes ride from Washington and
fifty minutes from Baltimore 1t is Il
mile in circumference, with up-to date
appointments and conveniences.
In breaking into the state of Mary
land. where bookmaking is legal and
racing at d single track is limited to
forty days a year the New Marlboro
promoters have not consulted Pimlico.
Neither have they shown desire to
Club of this city. which has always
controlled the Pimlico meeting. But
the promoters have turned to the
Southern Jockey Club for an Q. X. and
have shown much Independence in APP
plying for a state license, which will
Club so called was formed last winter.
and is composed of the Jacksonville
and Tampa tracks. 1t is inferred,
therefore, that some of. the men who
promoted winter racing in Florida are
interested in the Maryland venture,
which will not receive the official ap-
prevail OF the Jockey Club here. That
means the proposed meeting at New
Marlboro Park will be an outlaw affair
and will cause much friction with the
- tTpnIyD elcrnr. 10 1tun t,l
their monopoly of racing in Maryland
is about to beschal!enged.
Last year refOrmerS tried to have anti
race track legislation passed in Maryland,
but the project was defeated because it
was shown that there were only thirty
days of racing at Pmlico each year.
But with the sprnging up of this new
track, built and controlled by profess
SIGNALS, will come serious trouble. it is
predicted. Open bookmaking has been
prohibited in every state in the Union
except Maryland, where the old form of
race track gambling has gone on unmo-
Tested Pimlico will have the usual meet
ing this fall with the jockey clubs ap-
prevail but the dates have not been de-
cided upon yet. If the jockey club
frowns upon New Marlboro it remains to
be seen what action horsemen will take.
Pimlico will surely ask the jockey club
to declare the new track an outlaw, al
though there was time not long ago
that PimlicO was inclined to regard the
jockey clubs authority obsolete
Meanwhile it is said that jamestown,
Va. will hold fall meeting, but the
promoters may fall in line with the
Southern Jockey Club this time as a
matter of policy, for the meeting will de-
pend upon horsemen who will race in
Florida during the winter. Jacksonville
will open on November -, or perha ps
earlier, il is said because of the eX-
pected curtailment of the local racing
season. while JuareZ, Mex, will open its
gates about the same time, for hundred
days. All of which means that there will
be plenty of racing for horsemen after
the New York tracks wind up the present
season.