New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-16
HUNT CLUB DATES
FOR RACING SEASON
More Meetings Arranged tor me
Amateurs This Year than
Ever Before.
NEW COMMITTEE NAMED
Twenty five Gentleman Riders
Get Their Jockey Licenses
to Wear Colors the
Coming Season.

| Hunt club racing is 70 be launched on
! April " and the schedule already adopt
Cd for dates gives every promise that tnir
branch OF the sport viii be bigger ana
! better in 1913 than ever before.
! At meeting oC the hunts committee
| of the National Stecplechase and Hunt
| Association date. were assigned for the
various clubs for the spring season OF
sport. and from the opening date there
viii be plenty OF action among the anna
tours.
The dates thus far granted follow:
April 20 Rock8wsy Hunting club April
% and May 3. Meadow Brook Steeple-
chase Association; May and 10, United
( Hunts Racing Association: May DO 81 and
I g. Washington Riding and Hunt club
| May IS. o. 20 and 81 Maryland United
Hunts: May 81, June and :. Piping Rock
! Racing Association: June "A. H. 10 and Il
Country club, at Prool,inc, Mass.
! II has been suggested that tie Piping
! Rock dates be changed 10 June 3. ana 4
/ TO avoid a conflict with the closing DAY
of the Maryland United Hunts, and these
may be accepted
representatives from the different stables
selected by the Master of Fox Hounds
! 70 represent them for a year and the six
/ 30 appointed work In conjunction with
the three stewards of the National Stee-
! pie Chase and Hunt Association, who
+ each year are appointed 10 serve on the
hunts committee.
, This committee is made up as follows
+ Charles * HARRISON. jr.. Maryland, chair
/ man. Joseph W. Burden. New England,
/ tlce-president: James W. Graves, Vir-
sina: William NJ Kerr Pennsylvania
Charles Phzer. New Jersey; Fletcher
Harper. New York; A. Henry TiigSinson
/ Henry W. Bull and n. s. Page. the last
named being the representatives OF the
! National Stecplechase and Hunt Associ-
alton.
/ AZ the annual meeting held on Friday
night the work Of last year was gone
) over thoroughly and the reports not alon,
! told Of the great progress made in anna
tcur racing but developed details Of what
Is 10 como that give nigh promise.
II was decided to defer action on al
applications for dates other than thos,
that are TO be run in the spring months
This was done with the idea or wait
ing for the list 10 bc complete and ther
arranging schedule that Will DO ava!
| with conflicts.
The virginia United Hunts will gite a
meeting some time In April and the Phil
ado,phia Hunts will hold q meeting from
May II To May q. the interval betweeI
the close OF the United Hunts Racing
! Association meeting at Belmont Park
. Terminal and the opening at Washington
The meeting at the last named place Is
7 being arranged by General Leonard
( Wood. chief OF STAFF. and other officers OF
the army. who are working hard on the
rcmouut problem. They viii arrange d
service test OF the same lines rs the one
held with so much success last spring.
At Rrooklino. where amateur racing has
been conducted for thirty-tuo years. toui
: DAYS will be- given. In place OF three
mich has been the custom.
The Meadow Brook club has been con-
tent with one day Of spor; In the spring
but it, too. is broadening out. 50 II l. al
an poiuts Tho increase la the number oi
Gentlemen who have become interested
and the lettering of their stables mean q
} material increase in the enthusiasm oi
those who are dcvotccs of this branch OF
. thc sport
At the meeting the following appllcs-
tons for certificates as gentlemen riders
were approved Evans Tucker. joan
Tucker. Lieutenant r.. NJ. W Whiting. u. W
IIaxall. jr. Edward II. earle, +. Il. llus-
scy. q. Bernard Fcnrick. Lieutenant G.
Is. Rockwell Lieutenant George >. Pat
ton. IT,. William X. Martin, David po"s
j. +. FLANAGAN. jr, Lawrence Bresse
Smith. James q. Lcipcr. jr.. Bayard Tuck
erman. ir.. Charles *. Harrison. jr.. W
+. Wilbur. philip Stevenson. Charles l.,
Appleton. John Bosey. Harry Tucker,
james Park. q. Fred Alpors. W. IL. WIZ
dey and Alfred Borden.