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MARLBORO TO REPLACE BENNING. Washington. D. .. September ].!. — Having received tlie sanction of the Jockey Club to race ten days at Marlboro. Prince* George County, .Md.. the Southern Maryland Racing Association, of which former Congressman K. S. Hill is president, has issued a prospectus for the meeting, which begins October 4 and closes October 14. There will be six races each day Willi purses of ?2j0 and 00 in value. The track, which is thr quarters of a mile in r-fa"Cn inference, is twelve miles from Denning. D. .. where many horses will be stabled, though Marlboro affords ample accommodations. The new race course can lie reached in fifty minutes by special trains from Baltimore over the Pennsylvania Railroad, and in less than three quarters of an hour from Washington by steam and trolley cars. The officials of the meeting are: Joseph A. .Murphy, presiding judge: James F. Milton, starter: F. W. Gerhardy. clerk of the course and scales: O. !■;. Hall, paddock and patrol judge, and George Miller, tinier. Preceding, as it does, the Pimlleo meeting. Marl-born, witli a Jockey Club sanction, will appeal to horsemen who would otherwise be compelled to remain idle because of the closing of the metropolitan circuit. Tlie work of Improving the Marlboro course is progressing rapidly and will be completed before October I. the date set for the opining. Special a I tent ion is being pah! to the steeplechase course. Cross country racing was always popular with patrons of racing about Baltimore and Washington, and there an- many good jumpers at Pmstlco and Denning tracks lo till tin- Marlboro chases. Manager El rod !..is arranged with tie Plakerton agency for a force of uniformed men with which to police the course. Dr. Hill. William G. Brooke. A. T. Brooke, F. .1. Pons. C. . Smith. C. 1.. Jones. -I. D. Warren. .1. W. Rice and C. II. Colby ale behind tiiis. new enterprise ami i hey will spare an pains to make their fust regular race meeting a success. It is their highly laudable desire to win for Marlboro a permanent place on tlie eastern racism map in place of Kenning ami if they get the i igl t sort of M iiagement this all their next step will be to construct a first-class course of a mile and an eighth. Already stabling accommodation has been provided al the course for Abo I arson with eight horses, Clint De Win with leu. D. Kinney with two. S. W. Street I with six. c. c. Smithson four, I. S. P. Ran dolpfa four a. Alien rour. Koher I Taylor three. Fred Miller live. David DunMp eight, Matthew Meyers seven. Henry Fltppen two. Harry Bites ten, John I an ell four. Janus Johnson two. N. K. BeaJ ten. Frank Light foot six. Frank Dray four, and James Keel rssa.
