The Washington herald., 1916-11-12
BOWIE TRACK WILL
open GATES TUESDAY
Racing to Shift from Hilltop Course
to Prince George Park.

Baltimore. Nov. 1.-THE focus OF activ-
ity of Eastern racing shifts this week
from the Maryland Jockey Clubs pic
turesque old course at Pimlico just out
side Baltimore. to Bowie. where the
Southern Maryland Agricultural Associa-
ton will inaugurate the last Jockey club
meeting Of the season on Tuesday. Bowie
is situated about midway between Balti.
moro and Washington on the interurban
electric line and Is the newest Of Mary
land tracks. The meeting that will be
inaugurated on Tuesday will be its third
autumn session. The racing will be
conducted on a vastly improved track.
the stands and buildings Of which are
second to none in the country, and the
meeting Will continue fourteen racing
days, that is to say. through the 8oth.
The program will be made up OF seven
races each day with no purse Of smaller
value than $500 in added money. The Of
icials will be men with whose reputa-
tions the horse folk of the United States
and Canada are familiar and in whose
ability and integrity horsemen and turf
patrons, alike, have the greatest conf
dencs.
A. B. Dade will DO the starting, William
p. Spurgeon, Carter Hall and z. c.
Smith. the last named gentleman repre-
senting the Jockey Club. will be in the
stewards stand. Joseph Murphy, John
Howard Anderson and George T. Miller
will act as palcing judges and Joseph
McLennan will serve as clerk OF the
course and scales
Having fallen heir to the dates, spring
and fall. which. in the old days. were al
lotted to Benning. Washington regards
the Bowie meeting as its very own. But
Baltimore claims an equal interest be-
cause the new track is a Maryland es-
tablishment and Is as close to Baltimore
as to Washington
No race meeting conducted In the East
all season has had a better prospect of
brilliant success than that which faces
the Bowie meeting. Occurring in the best
part OF the delightful Indian summer pc
riod the weather is sure to be mild and
pleasant And having no opposition
worthy OF serious consideration TO con-
tend with in any part of the country
Bowie is sure Of more than enough horses
to f1ll its programs from day to day.
Moreover. Mr.. McLennan. a past mas
ter of the art OF matching his horses
cleverly. has exerted himself to frame up
a series of events for runners of all ages
and kinds that will bring to the post ad-
mirably balanced fields
The only attractive feature that will
be missing from Bowie's racing will be
steeplechasinS. General Manager James
F. O'Hara has not been able to construct
q steeplechase course so far because his
track is built on new and recently-graded
ground that Is not adapted by nature to
the production of spontaneous grasses
and he has been unable to produce a
suitable sod for the jumpers. But mind
full Of the growing popularity of steeple-
chasing through the country generally
and in these parts particularly. Mr..
O'Hara Is bending his energies toward
securing an artificial sod. and it is a sure
thing that Bowie will have a first rate
cross-country course next fall. The
Southern Maryland Association owns
ground about the track on which one of
the most picturesque courses in the
country may be constructed.