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JAMESTOWN JUMPING COURSE APPROVED. Norfolk, Va., March 25. The Jamestown Jockey Club has complied with the requirements of the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association In the matter of providing a proper course, and formal permission has. been granted to Manager Robert Levy to run jumping races during the spring and fall meetings. Objection was raised last fall to the construction of some of the jumps at the Jamestown course, but since the linish of the autumn meeting of 1910 Mr. Levy has had the course entirely remodeled. The jumps are now of regulation heiglit, depth and stiffness; they are properly placed, and steeplechase experts who have looked the course over pronounce it one of the best in the country. The jumpers of the Virginia and Maryland stables of William and Woods Garth, Theodore Coles, W. S. Diffenderffer, David Dunlop. Col. Israel Militla-dos Parr, Jr., Duff Green, Henry Craven, Col. Henry Harrison, L. M. Stackhouse and Cortland H. Smith ar already assembled at the track and others are on the way. The flat horses already quartered at Norfolk belong to the stables of R. T. Wilson. Mrs. Lillian A. Livingston. Thomas Clyde, J. A. Bennet, M. C. Pritchard. William Walker, E. Moyne, Forrest Rose. E. W. Heffner, Hugh Penny, Matt Dooley, Fred Miller, Woods Garth. Edward Utterback, J. T. Temple, Charles J. Quinn. Frederick Johnson, Joseph L. Ross, J. Carroll, Gil Summers, J. H. Sutler, J. F. Sweeney and Harry Rites. The division of August Belmonts string, which will race at Norfolk and Piinlico under the management of John Whalen, Is still at Garnett. S. C. Trainer Whalen expects to reach Norfolk before the first of April, however, and his horses will all be ready.
