The Washington herald., 1915-02-01
bowie TO open
racing SEASON
Maryland Track Gets First
Dates for Start of Eastern
Thoroughbred Events.
WILL BE PARI-MUTUELS
Ring Is Limited to Thirty-6ve Layers
and Mortimer Mahony Will
Be in Charge.
WILL BE PARI-MUTUELS

| Baltimore Jan. a.-Thoroughbred rae
| ing in the East will open Thursday. April
| /, at Bowie. a new track constructed last
summer by the Southern Maryland Agri-
| cultural Association of Prince Georges
County. Racing was held at Bowie the
| O'Hara. the plants manager, has applied
| to the Jockey Club for dates. which en-
brace the first fifteen days in April and
| the last fifteen in November.
Although only an infant as compared
with the other three State tracks-Pim-
| leo. Laurel and Havre de Grace-Bowie
offers the hest to horsemen and patrons
| of the sport. The plant is ideally To-
Gated, being practically half way between
this city and. Washington. Trains leave
the terminal of each city every five min
| utes during the racing season. The run
| from Baltimore to the track is about thir-
| ty-ive minutes and from Washington
about twenty-five.
Bowie Is the only track IN the State
that contains a seven-furlOng chute. The
track is pronounced by experts as being
second to none in the country. II Is of
sand and loan and racing could be held
tomorrow. Such substance never
freezes and dries very rapidly after n
hard rain. BY the time the bugle sounds
| the course will be lightning fast and good
| time is anticipated.
VIII Accommodate 500 Horses.
Tho new plant will accommodate about
| 500 thoroughbreds Two new stables we're
erected during the winter. In addition
other improvements have been made The
| ends and rear of the grandstand have
| been enclosed with glass panels So has
the betting ring, which Is beneath the
grandstand. A concrete floor has been in
| stalled and the ring lighted with cleo
| tricity.
Mortimer Mahony will have charge
| OF the betting ring. Manager OHara
| has announced that bookmaking priv
| ileges would be limited TO thirty-fve,
| although the ring can take care of fifty.
OF course, only reputable layers will be
| accepted. There will be no pari-mutuel
/ machines.
Although the programs have not yet
| been made up. there will be a number
of stakes from s1.OO0 to 1850 in value.
The handicaps will call for $500. and no
purse less than 800 will be offered by
the mana cement. The first event will go
on at 2:9O o'clock each day.
| Among the other improvements noticed
are a new timers stand and the
stables have been painted white with
! green trimmings. A bleacher with a
seating capacity OF 200 probably will be
built during the summer.
| Tyree Takes Permanent Quarters.
DR.. J. S. Tyree. Of Washington. will
make permanent quarters at Bowie. He
has engaged about two dozen stalls for
| the year around. Already horsemen have
| engaged stabling room. more than a
| hundred horses being listed. AS soon as
the New Orleans, Juarez and Havana
/ meetings end horsemen will shiT to
Bowie. incidentally. this will be the
( only track open during the first fifteen
days i'm April.
Those who have applied for stabling
room are: Al Weston, 12: Harry Payne
Whitney. 10! r. f. Watkins. II; DR.. J.
S. Tyree, 30; William Garth 10; James
Fitzsimmons. ID: Quincy Stable, IL; Lige
Bruster. 8; Ed Heffner, 10: w. P. Burch.
S: r. F. Carman. Is; G. w. BisseIl, II:
P. S. p. Randolph. s; Mike DAILY. 10:
Eddie Mcbride, 9. and W. NJ Sheedy. S.
The officers Of the association are: Jim
O'Hara, general manager: Hampton Ma
gruder. president; Horace Crosier, vice
president, and William G. Brooke, sec
retary and treasurer.