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NOTES OF THE TURF. Albert Simons recently underwent a minor opera tloa in a Washington. 1 . C.. hospital. .John H. Morris has hid the misfortune to lose the two-year-old coll by Cessrioo— Mary Agnes, which he purchased nit of the Powers-Hunter Co.s Novem her sab at Lexington. The colt was shipped t" Charleston in charge of .lames S. Bvermaa and died shortly alter arriving there. Columbia merchants give the racing that was going on there during th.- month of December credit for the best Christmas trade they ever enjoyed, rhe business men are convinced that the racing brought considerable money into the town. Out of town rlsi tors that went there for the races were purchasers on a large scale. A i the recent annual meeting of the tnited Hunts Bacing Association, Perry Belmont was elected pros iiient: II. s. Page, first vice-president: Henry V. Hull, second vice-president; J. Watson Webb, treaa iini. an,! II. A. Buck, secretary. Clans Were ma 1 • for a spring m ■ ting to be held at Belmont I-uk Terminal Thursday, .lune •;. and Saturday. Juue 8. At the annual meeting of the National Btecpicchai and Hunt Association, S. S. Howlsnd, J. B. Cowdia and II. S. Page were elected stewards until 1913. Th. stewards elected August Belmont, president, .1. II. Ah Minder, vice -president, and 11. .1. Morns secretary and treasurer for the year 1912. Frank J. Bryan was elected secretary of the Hunts Committee. it is uudersl to be the intention of the into:- ests that have obtained an option on the Sheepshend Hay track I ■ change n Into an immense playground. The proposed changes Include the construction of an sutomobllt track two miles in circumference, •• -!f link-, archery and tennis courts, many "diamond- i. r baseball, p. lo Belda, a steeplechase course for smateur racing and srtiucial canals which will far n:-ii a waterway i i Jamaica bay, and thus provide a course ovei which motor boats may race.
