Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-04-01
RACING SEASON BEGINS
WITH OPENING OF BOWIE
Nearly 700 Horses From All Sections
OF Country Ready for Open
ing To-Alorrow.
vIRGINIANs HAVE ENTRIES
William and Lewis Garth Match
Strings Against Veterans Of Hn-
vana, New Orleans, Tia Juana,
Juarez and Other Places.
Especial TO The Times-pispatch


BALTIMORE. March 3l.-rhc spring
meeting Of the southern Maryland
Agricultural AssoCta ton. which begins
At Prince Georges Park. Bowie. Md. to-
morrow. ushcrs in the Eastern racing
season OF 1917 which. war permitting.
should he the best the country has
known since 1907. There are more
horses. British. French and American.
/, in training than there have been In
ten years and a Coodly proportion Of
these have assembled at Bowie and the
tracks within easy shipping distance to
make the meeting at Prince Georges
Park this spring q most successful one.
Four hundred or 800 runners of vari-
Gus ages would hc sufficient for q
twelve day meeting. Bowie has up
wards OF zoo. Not all Of these horses
are Mt Prince Georges Park which Is
situated midway between Baltimore and
. Washington. on the nterurhan electric
line. about twenty miles from each
city. Owing IL a lack of stabing
facilities. Notwithstanding 200 new
stalls have bccn constructed over WIN
ter. many horsemcn have had to find
shelter for their charges mt Laurel
Pimlico aud Benninc and tho hRif-mile
courses in tho nciEhborhood of Balti-
!, more and Washington
Horse for horse, perhaps. the fittest
OF the runners 1T B.nninE and Bowie
are tho runners that have come from
the winter tracks. Havana, New Or
leans, Tia Iuana and JuarcZ But these
seasoned campaicncrs Will have their
hands fun after III" first few days of
the meeting Tho $50 racers that have
win;ered ut Bowie, Bcnning. Pimlico
and Laurel and Mt the private training
quarters of wealthy sportsmen here
ahouts have been busy all winter, and
they arc about ready.
The two-ycar-olds that have trained
q; Bowie and EonninG and through the
East generally will have nothing to
fcnr from the youngsters that took
part in tho winter racing. BY starting
before tho lst OF April, the latter auto
matically disqualified themselves from
participating in racing AT any track
accepting tho jurisdiction OF tho Jockey
club before the LIST OF next January.
But IL is more than likely that the
juvenile performers OF tho stables that
have wiutered in South Carolina. at
Charleston and Aiken. will make these
home-trsined youngsters step about.
Tho twn-ycar-olds from the South most
TO nc feared. II current report is not
misleading. arc In tho stables of w. r.
Coo. Grant Hugh Browne. Clifford A.
Cochran. \. X Macomhcr and one or
two other sportsmcn of New York that
have heen at Palmetto Park. "Puddin"
Mcdaniel has been especially busy with
his juveniles al Palmetto Park
The clevercst youngsters from old
BenninC track thar have had special
preparation for tho Bowie meeting arc
In the stables Of Samuel Rose. Y. s.
,TNrec. William Y. Burch Edward y
Mclean. Joseph r.. Davis. Harry Payne
Whitney and Lewis Garth A. G.
Weston and Archie thinner have
brought w bunch ~ nice ones from
New Orleans. Wcston'S lot heing made
up of continCents or the stables OF
Richard T. Wilson. the president OF
me Saratoga Association. and Thomas
Clyde. the genius Of Pimlico
Among the Marylanders. virsinians
and Pennsyiva mans whose colors will
be horne by horses Of various ages ar.
A. =. Parr. William Garth. Lewis Garth.
W !. Maupin. Henry T. oXnard. Robert
Walden. Colonel Israel Aiiltiades parr.
\. = Ccsden. G. 4. Muller. CAPTAIN
=. Cassatt. Archibald Rarklie. J. VI. !
Jcnords. Richard r Carman. Richs-d /
+. Cerman Jr. William Woodward and
:. {; Rodwell
ners from the stables Of August Bel
mont. Wills sharp" Nilmcr i w. Loft.
T. Ambrose Clark. L. A. Burke. Paul
Powers William Shrodv Clarence II.
Nacker. = - Smith. william l. oliver
". H:rsch James + johnson. Alfred
Hennen Morris Frank Nolan. Fred
cri"k Johnson. herbert J. Pratt Emil
Herr. j. O. Talbot c,c.
The stewards az thu Bowie meeting
VIII be Carter Hall. = e Smith and
William y Sturgeon: the Judges
Joseph Murphy, John Howard Anderson
and Georr" r. Miller: tho starter. A
Barrett Dad"; G.- clnyk or tho course
and scales. J2s"li. S!tf.cnnan: tho mad
dock judge, Ernest Iall. and the patrol
Judge, Herman Coni<iing. Mr. Smith
will do tho handicappinK