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AMATEUR MEETINGS ON LONG ISLAND. New York, October 24. Tho annual meeting of the United Hunts Raping Association to be held at Belmont Park Terminal next Saturday and November 4. promises cross-country sport of the best type. Tho program will consist . of steeplechases, hurdle flat and army races each day and a private sweepstakes on the opening day between Raymond Belmonts Culvert, Harry W. Smiths Nattic Bumppo arid Rolicrt Kellys Kindcrhook. at live furlongs, on I lie flat. -The majority of the events are confined to gentlemen riders. The riders in the private sweepstakes will include John E. Tucker on Nattie Bumppo, E. C. Cowdin, Jr., on Culvert and Thomas Wrighl on Kinderliook, these being the best of the amateur riders. One of the chief events of the sport each dav will be a race for army officers, a steeplechase of "about two and a half miles on the opening day. and a fiat race, the San Juan Plate, of about two miles, on the second day. For the latter event the Hon. Perry Belmont will present plate to the riders of the throe placed horses. Tic success oi tnese army races at the various amateur meetings throughout the east lias been such as to greatly encourage the War Department, the class of mounts, as well as the Jiorscmausliip displayed by the officers having recently shown marked improve merit. Gen. Leonard Wood, Gen. Frederick 1. Grant and Maj. Henry T. Allen will act as stewards in the army events. The other officials for the meeting are: Stewards. August Belmont. Charles K. Harrison, Antelo Devereux and Fletcher Harper, representing the Hunts committee. Judges, Algernon Daingcr-lleld and John E. Cowdin, A. Bntler Duncan and H. A. Buck. Starter, J. H. Bradford. Patrol judges. Franklin B. .Voss and Edward S. Voss. Paddock .iud"e, E. C. Smith. Clerk of the scales, George W. Gall. The Meadow Brook Steeplechase Association will race at Belmont Park Terminal on election day, NoTeniler 7. The program will consist of five races the Syosset Hurdle Plate, about one mile and a half, over hurdles; the Lynbrook Plate, alwut six furlongs on the flat; the TOnkaway Steeplechase, About two and a hair miles; the Retribution Steeplechase Plate, about three miles, and the Stavers Plate, about two and a quarter miles on the flat. Amateur racing, in the alisence of professional sport, can lie made popular in view of the large number of persons in this vicinity "who have not lost interest in the thoroughbred horse.
