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MARYLAND PEOPLE TO BUILD TRACK. Too Many Outsiders Bought Stock in Hale-thorpe Proposition and a Shift Is Made. Baltimore, Md., August 14. The movement instituted last year by the Maryland Jockey Club to build a new mile and an eighth track at Halethorpe on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between this city and Washington, has fallen through, but a new one has been set afoot. Such contributions as were sent in by subscribers to the stock for the new enterprise are being returned with interest. The obi scheme fell through because it was found when the situation was canvassed thoroughly that there were too many people not residents of Mary-, land taking stock, every Tom, Dick and narry in racing seemed to have a piece of It. Baltimore folk felt naturally that such a venture should be controlled by Marylanders. The promoters of the enterprise feared that if they went ahead and built their track in defiance of local sentiment an influence inimical to racingt might be aroused. Baltimore folk and farmers of Maryland interested in the thoroughbred will dominate the new venture, and the promoters have little doubt that they will succeed in getting sufficient money in a few months to enable them to construct a handsome plant. A systematic effort will be made to revive the old-time interest of local people in the sport of kings. It has not been so very long since Baltimore was one of the best racing towns in the country. Baltimore track has been the scene of some of the most brilliant contests in the history of the turf. The attitude of the voters and lawmakers of Maryland toward racing has always been favorable. Pimlico has never asked anything of the legislature that has not been promptly and willingly, granted.
