Evening star., 1918-09-29
laurel TO OFFER
FINE RACING SHOW
Fall Meeting Opens Tuesday.
+ Frazee Is Sure Leagues
Will Start in 1919.
By DENMAN THOMPSON.

BY DENMAN THOMPSON.
What should prove one Of the most
attractive race meetings ever held
in the vicinity Of Washington will
open Tuesday at Laurel. when the
Maryland State Fair Corporation will
inaugurate a month Of the sport. This
annual fall show. extending over
twenty-seven racing days. embraces
a program which bristles with quail
ity. Stakes and purses of exceptional
value will be offered. made possible
by the reason that the revenue from
tho pari-mutuels enables the Laurel
management to be unusually liberal
with the horsemen. as much so as any
American racing association ever has
been.
More than $275,0o0 will be dis
tributed in the course Of the month
among the owners who have assem-
bled their strings at. the picturesque
Maryland plant Stakes races. Of
which 80 are listed, and for which
moro than 1000 nomipations were
made nearly two months ago. will
call for $1,000 90" Of, Of this sa amount: and
1877 overnights events.
none of which will have a smaller
value in added money than $1,000.
Many will pay $1,000 and more. The
of the s275.000 will be
made up by the subscription and for
AS was the case last fall. war chari-
ties will be enriched by the meeting.
the one outstanding feature of which
will be the special race arranged
through the enterprise of Laurel
Parks general manager. Matt Winn.
ship of the season. According to pres
ent plans this will bring together the
ungain1y gelding Billy Kelly. crack
two-year-old Of the August Saratoga
meeting, and the more classical-lined
and which last week took up 1870
pounds and captured the Oakdale
handicap at Aqueduct. Pen Rose, rated
as the best of the fillies of her age,
may be entered, but it is unlikely the
tna Of any & other ste tse st
against such cracks at three-quarters
Of a mile, under full stake weights
and for stakes so high. Winn has Of
Tered $4,000 for the race. which will
be sweepstakes of $4,000 or $4,000
high in such a contest, but the Fu-
turity winner temporarily is disabled.
Another special race. hardly second
in attractiveness to the juvenile title
is that proposed between
owner of Roamer. which holds the
world record for one mile, has ex-
pressed his willingness to match
Roamer against Sun Briar or any
other horse at the Laurel meeting.
I race.
Many thoroughbreds prominent in
he spring and summer meetings at
Belmont Park. Aqueduct, Saratoga,
Empire City, Jamaica and Havre de
Grace already have been shipped to
he races Of the first week until the
strong stables Of the metropolitan cir
:uit arrive in trainload lots from New
York. One feature of the Laurel
Meeting that seems assured Is that
here will be greater number and a
distinctly higher grade of timber
act that various hunt associations
1ave abandoned their meets. There
llready Is an unusually large number
# jumpers quartered at Laurel.
II do not believe the national au-
:horities and the people Of the United
oase ball to be thrown aside." says
Harry Frazee, owner Of tho world
champion Boston Rod Sox, in voicing
The opinion that both the American and
National leagues will play champion
'hip base ball next year. Frazee as
.erts he is making plans to this end.
I base my belief upon my knowledge
II the American people and their de-
ire for healthful relaxation" adds
.he Hub chisftain. II think there will
% q strong popular demand that the
sreat national game continue. REQ
,gni1e the fact that in these war
lines there Is but one great thing of
1efeat of kaiserism. It 10 Of the ut
most importance. however, that peo-
,le be provided with harmless amuse-
nenta- Its necessity already has been
by all the belligerents in
Europe. l believe there will be
enough ball players who will not be
:alled for military service to provide
! good quality of ball"
Although the meeting between
Benny Leonard and Ted-Kid Lewis
Jailed to settle the question Of superb
,rity. it Is unlikely they will be
for q return engagement. not
the n9 staps st.
Newark that they al far too clever
FOR anything to pc determined in re-
gard to which Is tho better fighter
short of q twenty-round bout. They
proved themselves possessed Of too
much defensive ability, barring a
lucky blow, for anything decisive to
happen in q short bout. With no
,lugging in evidence there can be
such a thing as too much cleverness
10 suit the taste Of hstic fans. There
will be no loud. insistent clamor for
! return match in Jersey-at eight
rounds.
The case of Bobby Jones, the youth
,ul Atlanta player. tends to prove
that restraint is bad for ones golf.
He recently made a new record of II
FOR the New Britain course, this feat
marking the climax Of steady i'm
in his game since he dis
.arded matches in which he engaged
with female partners and began play
ing with Chick Evans. Bobby is an
mpetuous youth on the links and to
get the best out Of his game must
give his tongue a certain leeway not
always permissible with feminine
partners
"I hate to play with girls anyway"
Is the way Bobby puts It
SATTnRS REAT IOWA