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PLANS FOR RACING IN VIRGINIA. Jamestown to Have Fall Meeting and Likely to Become Winter Racing Point. Norfolk. Va.. June 2. — Plans have lieen completed for the holding of an eighteen-day fall meeting at Jamestown, liegitming Novenilter S. Bids for the erection of 500 additional stalls have been lnvit.-ft by the Jamestown Jockey Club, which will provide stabling accommodations for over 700 horses. The stalls are to be completed in ample time for occupancy in preparation for the fall meeting, which will be on a more ambitious scale than the meetings heretofore held in Virginia. The grandstand accommo datious will likewise be improved. It is said that assurances have lieen given racing men by members of the legislative 1mm1.v sufficient to warrant the lielief that the legislature, which meets next Deeein-lier. will enact a law designed to foster ami protect the sport, and it Is among the possibilities that Virginia may eventual Iv liecome an important winter racing center. The climate in the vicinity of Norfolk is mild enough to permit of racing at any season of the year, and Norfolk is near enough to the big cities of the east to attract patronage for winter racing from such great centers of population as Baltimore. Washington. Philadelphia and New York. Plans are in progress for a fall meeting of ten days duration at Richmond. It is reported that there is a movement on foot for the building of a second track at Baltimore, to run independently of Pimlico. It is understood that if the proposed bill to protect racing is passed by the Virginia legislature a new track will lie built at Alexandria, just across the Potomac from Washington.
