The Washington herald., 1915-11-08
PRESS IS GUEST
At BOWIE TRACK
Newspaper Men From Balti-
more, Washington and New
York Given Banquet.
NEW MACHINES READY

Bowie, Nd, Nov. 7.-Newspaper-
men from Baltimore, Washington, and
New York were the guests OF the
management of the Bowie race course
today. Besides the representatives. of
the press were about fifty invited
guests, including horsemen and rep
resentatives of the various tracks
throughout the State.
Tables were spread for the guests
in the dining-room under the grand
stand. where an excellent dinner was
, served.
The new mutuel machines are all In
readiness for the meeting. which be-
/ gins next Saturday, and everything Is
| in fine fettle awaiting for the open
! ing day.
A new innovation of these machines
will be as soon as the horses go 10
the post the machines will be closed
and under the new system the pub
lie can see at glance just what e@acn @
| ticket will pay on their respective
horses. There will be no delay in
waiting for the calculators to put the
prices up, as now prevails at the other
courses This morning trial dem :
onstration was given for the oenent
of the newspapermen and a slate rep
resenting tickets to the value OF VS.
900 was figured up so as to snow
what each horse would pay in less
! than a minute and half This VIII VIII
greatly facilitate matters and VIII
give the public more time for specu-
Iation. and eliminate the long wait
ing that generally results from the
other methods now in vogue at other
Maryland tracks.
The Lewisohns. of New York, who
have taken up racing on rather
pretentiJus scale in the last year
will have their best runners under
colors at Bowie during the conins
autumn session of the Southern Mary
land Agricultural Fair Association
November l3 to 30. inclusive. Fred
erick who uses the assumed name
! EIkwood Park Stable. will be repre-
sented by Celandria and Watercress
ID and Oscar will race bunch or
English campaigners of various ages
lust over from the other side, that
are being trained at Pimlico py Johh
whalen.
In Celandria Frederick Lewisohn owns
one of the crack 2-year-old fillies of the
wear. A daughter Of Celt and Adrtana
and full sister of the accomplished
Coouette, Celandria began the season at
Hayre de Grace last spring and has
beaten the smartest youngsters OF either
sex in training. She is. moreover, as
good Just now as she was at the pc
ginning of the year and she bids fair
TO make S-year-old OF the n,sness
class, for she has the robust build OF
a stud horse and. unlike most fillies'
neither work nor racing upsets her ap-
petite Jimmie Mclaughlin, former
Jockey. now a patrol Judge. Is training
CeIandria for Mr.. Lewisohn.
watercress II has not proven as use
full as Celandria. As a matter OF fact
he is still a maiden, but Mclaughlin
is firm in the belief that he will earn
set of brackets or SO at Bowie. Wa
tercress II has an interesting history.
A son Of watercress and Pearl ". she Is
a daughter of Salvador and Firenze,
watercress II is full brother Of the
fIl-starred Water Pearl, one OF the
great 2-year-olds of the brilliant season
of 1906, the season which witnessed the
DEVELOPMENT OF Peter Pan, De Mund,
Electioneer, Ballot. Charles Edward
and Pope Joan. Because of his breed
ing. he was intended for service at FL
mendorf farm and his breeder, the ven-
erable James Ben Ali Haggin. bought
| him in for $500 at the Elmenoorf
yearling sale of 1914.
The death of Mr.. Haggin upset this
plan and Watercress II was offered for
sale with the Elmendorf yearlings of
1915. Mr.. Lewisohn purchasing him for
$500. Watercress II is a fine upstand-
| ing chestnut of excellent bone and mus
cular development His action Is good
and he has speed a-plenty. When he
finds his racing legs he will go on.
Oscar Lewishon's horses are English
| bred and Benevolent is the only one of
them that has discovered form In this
country. He, a son of Benvenuto, de-
! feated a bunch of fairish selling platter
sprinters at Pimlico last Friday.