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PIMLICOS GRAND OPENING ENORMOUS ATTENDANCE TO TESTIFY TO BALTIMORES ALLEGIANCE TO RACING. Question Mark Disqualified for Fouling — Albeit Simons Falls and a Broken Lpr Results — Bookmaker-Ooyners Barred. Baltimore. Md.. anril M, — Amid a clipping of gloved hands and about r of men the -prills meeting of the Marvand Jeekci rliil. was opened before one or Hie largest and most brilliant assemblage* that have graced the Hill lop trark since tic days of Ions as... when Parole Tom Ochiltree sad [en Broeek ..-Hl.-.l and congress adjourneil in arder to -■e the resnN of a horse race. It was a great dav !• !■ Ptmlico. Smiling Kktes an. I the b.-. I of weather bronarhl oat dtalnUIy-ctad women and every man 1 1 ■iinl 111.11- Jt 1 it ii ■ whose heart answers the call • ■f the natter of hoof beats. BaHhmnres social regi--ter coi.ld i.e checked oil by tin- ocrnpanta of the cl-il.l ouse lawn and the !-.,,-s. ice mall was iam-med and under the grandstaml, where the augmented betting idled baa bei 1 placed. 9 squirming, pushing whirlpool of racing nun mndi snirhil around the circle of booths in an eSsrl lo place their money to i in h. t advantage. The Pimlioo of todh i- noi tl - Pimlieo of a year back. Then [he track was fostered bv the Jockey Club simply as a filler in lor a cla-s of horses thai were pnahed out from tin- so railed mctropolltau tracks, faea came the anti-gumhllns .inside that -Ac. ping tlronsli the south ami southwest 1 ami down upon New York like an avalanche. Pimli.-o remains the only track in the east who-.- rare track betting K legalised, rind it foPowed as a matter of rsnrse that the ryes sf th.- raring world were turn.-d Ibis way. The failure of August Belmont, nresiden ol the Jockey club. 10 arrive in time for thi races todar. made a clause in the judges4 stand Decease rT. In the slewa.-ds stand today were William M. Man.. Thomas Clyde and Frnnh Bryan. The placing judges ue W. IV Biggs and F. C. Smith. The netting ring begun Mlrag in. shortly after noon. A three-da drawing was made and thirty b.iokies e ,1 .-billed ;., take chances. Albert Simons who has charge of .1. W. Schorrs stable, slipped while on Hie track ibis morning and rdl down Hie embankment, breaking is hs. After some delay be was taken to Johns Hoi. kin- Hospital. n " • •• iJiinie --ant feetun of ;.. ifteruoou with Hie running of the sixth race, when the stew aids were forced t.. dbunalify Question Mark, which finished second. Directly after the start the latter ducked across the track to the inside and caused a jam in which Cbepontnc and Pimpaate were crowded against the feme. The last two were pulled up and whatever limine they misht have had was ruined by the int rfeien-e. The change in placing save second money to I.ally and third to CbepontUC. Ill the steeplechase Palm broke one of his forelega when he fill at the sixth jump and he was destroyed. A. S. Valentine, the lessee of the Norfolk track. arrived Ihis morning and he brings the report that the rins at Norfolk, which will he an open one will be in charge of .7. Cavaaagh. Wash Norvell. well known to western rai .--goers, has been appointed secretary of the meeting, J. Melnlyte. recently reinstated by the California Jockey cluti. will ride for William Garth during the se.ison of l.M . Elmer Wilson has been appointed starter for the Braaklkae, Mass.. meettag. which will begin June A. P. Sinter and C. I.. Jones, of Chicago, were among the arrivals today. Joseph L. Khiuock ami ollie James tan over from Washington to witness the sport. The Jockey Club has issued a new rule iu which horse annua are barred from operating liooks. I . C. Johnson. Alfred rspnjnen Morris. Charles Beid, Frank Bishop. T. D. Sullivan. Have Gideon and a host of ether well known turfmen were among those present.
