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J I ; NORFOLK PROSPECTS BRIGHT PROMINENT OWNERS GIVE ASSURANCES 0E INTENTION TO PARTICIPATE IN MEETING. Applicants for Stalls Include Active Members of the Jockey Club — Sport at Virginia Track Safe for Years to Come. Norfolk. Va.. March 2C. — Boh Levy, general man ager of the Jamestown Jockey club, has issued his program 1 k for the first seven days of the spring meeting which will begin hero April S and continue up to .mil Including April 27. The purses range in value from .*_*.".» in added money to S7"ti added, and. if the attendance of ihe tir-i seven days Justifies an advance, later 011 such an advance will Ih- made. Th" indications are that the meeting will be successful. George Miller, superintendent of the course, has the track in first rate condition and something like ." K stalls are already bespoken, with several sources from which horses ma] reasonably be c pected yet to be heard from. August ltelmont. chairman of the Jockey Club of New York: Bichard T. Wilson, president of the Saratoga Association, and Harry K. Knapp and Francis B. Ilitcl k. stewards of the Jockey club. are among the applicants for stabling accommodations. Other applicants include Walter s. House. Dr. S. W. Street!. Willicin Garth. J. S. Iyree. Albert Simon-. Thomas Lawless. W. D. Altbousc, c. II. Divids. William Raymond. P. T. Hughes. Harry Shannon. W. S. Diflonilcrfter. Thomas Rodroek, Jerry Carroll. James Fltssimmons. P. Utterhack, Andrew William-. William L. Oliver, W. B. Plunkett. Victor Hollar. William Keating. Abe Garson. Michael Kellv. Edward Hanna, Joseph Ma honey, Cornelias Mack. Janus Robertson, John McCanley, Joseph M. Cooper, M. Welsh. Prank Frishie, U. P. Breseler, W. P. Walker. Jehu Millmrn. Mil-saute ft Holland, William Shields, James s. Ownbey, Frank Began. P. V. Johnson. Cornelius Leighton. Miss A. |. Marrone, If. K. Bernard. William Martin. Babcoek and Gardner, M. ;. Galrin, Archie Zimmer, W. G. King-Dodds. P. II. Garrison, A. G. Blakeley, Wil kam Cablll, Hugh Penny, J. W. Bedrick, William Walker and lame- McLaughlin. Mr. Kii g Dmlds is a well-known Canadian turfman. Other Canadians whose horses are coming in-elude Charles S. Campbell, of Montreal, and Hubert Davit s. if Toronto. Mr. Campbell owns the three year-old Bwana Tuinbo. a strapping sou of Bryn Mawr and All. -t. Bwana Tuaabo is wintering at Cant, W. P. Prea graves place mar Salisbury. Mil. He is to any the colors of Mr. Campbell in the Preakness Han dicap. a race of one mile and an eighth for three-year "Ids to be run at Pinilieo in May and. it is understood, that Captain Presgrave wants to get a race under his bell down here. Bwana Tuinbo will meet the best three-year olds in the country in the PreahnCSS anil he must nerds go In Balti more prepared. Norfolk is in a position to offer g 1 racing pros pects to horsemen. The Virginia Legislature, which recently failed to pass a bill a Hacking the sport, will not meet again for two years and the Senate, which holds over still another two years, is llatly committed against any snch program. The Important ouselals for the coming nut ting will be Joseph Murphy and frank J. Bryan, stewards; Mars Ca — i.l.v. starter: Edward Cole, judge: Joseph McLennan, secretary and handicappcr. ami Herman Cockling, clerk of tin- scales. Mr. McLennan replaces Fred Gerhardy. Mortemer Mahoney will have charge of ihe berthas. ring. Fifteen carloads of horses from the south ami SOUthwest are expected within a week.
