The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-11-19
BOWIE MEETING SETS 4,
ATTENDANCE RECORDS
No Falling of In Interest Of
Followers Of Horses at,
Track.
BY PAROLE.


The Bowie meeting IN now IN f,,tfT
swing, and is keeping up the rather
remarkable record for attendance
that all the Maryland tracks have
shown this fall. 4
Since the middle of September thsrs,
has been continuous racing In tia
state, and It would be only natural 70
suppose that at this time there would,
pc some falling of in public Interest,"
On the contrary, however. the inter-.
e est IN the game seems rather to in5s
crease. Yesterday the attendance al
Bowie was the largest in the history
OF the new track, and, granted fafr
weather weather. the southern Maryland,
. rase seems Destined TO round Out
inc racing thus far has been nota-t
PIE FOR the number OF long shots that.
nave ne gone over and the high average
In part to the fact that the fields gen.
orally have been large and of mod
crate class, with nothing standing out
SO that the talent has found It very
oinlcult to locate the winners
Another factor has been the intro.
duction OF much new blood, whose
FORM was unknown to the players
generally. AZ the meeting goes on.
this angle attended to, and the long
shots Will not be SO frequent.
Horse Of Some Class.
Hauberk, the winner Of the Prinos
George Handicap, 10 q horse of soma.
class. and Just now IL at the top of
his form. He made a good record ON,
the Canadian circuit this season, ana
shas shown up finely since coming 70
Maryland. He was up against q clev-
er held, yesterday. but won very hand.
lily, coming from behind, beating
Flittergold, which looked to have the
stretch.
Much OF the pith was taken out Of
scratched for no apparent reason. IL
was whispered about thdt Benevolent
was scratched so as to make the race
good thing for Flittergold. II such
badly fooled--they reckoned without
their Hauberk.
Fruit Cake, the winner of the Bowie
Junior, 10 another OF those Canadian
good things, and seems to be q really
good Ally. In yesterdays race she
won going away from some very ofsv-,
er two-year-olds. Her good third To
S sSo,1id land and n Marss Henry Friday.
wise fellows to the merits OF the Dick
Wells Ally.
Robinson and ButweIl, probably
the public a sample of their metal in
the sixth race. Butwell was on Men
10 Park and Robinson on Charles.
Francis. and they fought it out all
through the stretch, Robinson finally
getting the verdict by a narrow mar
gin. 1t was a fine display of riding
on the part of both boys, and was
warmly applauded.
Will Weed Out Stable. f,
Emil Herr w'll weed out his stable
and sell a bunol 81 his plateys In the
paddock Thursd1v. Tho naRs ho pro
poses to get rid W are SerViliian, star
Gaze, Trend, Orpegth, Soldier, Arnss
ment, Blue Gao, SKY, and Peep shot
Most OF these Mr.. HerE has grabbed
out of selling races thiE fall and ~
this time he probably wishes he had
let them alone
other industrious collectors OF
equine curios this fell nave been SAM
Louis, Hedrick, and Bedweil, and save,
perhaps. the latter, neither OF them
has secured much 20 brag OF. f4
Judge Murphy, manager OF the Bus.
mess Mems Racing Association. OF
New Orleans, announced yesterday
that z. c. Crun, George Times, J. W.
May, Grover c. Baker, and q. II. Ba.
ker had been restored to the privilege
OF the association.