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SCENE SHIFTS TO PIMLICO FALL MEETING OF MARYLAND JOCKEY CLUB IS AUSPICIOUSLY OPENED. Silent Pilot Qualifies for His Walden Stakes Engagement by Winning Race at Seven Furlongs Flittergold Takes All-Aged Sprint. Baltimore, Mil., November 1. Mil IMmllco opened Its ten -days full meeting before a goodly crowd this afternoon and the sport offered was first class. Tho change from the bookmakers to the pari-mutuel machines resulted in a number of New Yorkers going bome, but local patrons of the sport remained loyal. Tlie inaugural steeplechase, a short course affair under selling conditions, was tlie best offcriiifr of the afternoon and it went to Ral Parrs Rood old mare. The Welkin. I.. L. Tompkins Juvorence was as rasdly second best, while II. IX Brown, Jr.s Madeline l.i. finished third. There were thirteen starters ii ml three of them, Velsini, Clan Alpine and Fred Essen, lost their riders before the journey was completed. The riders all escaped injury. August ISelmnnt, chairman of the Jockey Club, furnished the first winner of the meeting when Fltitorgold, tlie two-year-old brother to Fair Play, won a six-furlongs dash from a band of all-aged opponents, Richard T. Wilson, president of the .Saratoga Association, was another New Yorker to take a p.irse when Tartar scored an easy victory in the third race. A race for two-year-olds, over llie seven-furlongs distance, was of interest because of the line it afforded on the Walden, a mile stake for juveniles that is to be run iluring this meeting. Mrs. L. A. Livingstons Silent Pilot was returned the winner, and the way in which he forced all the pace, stamped him as a good one. Cant. E. 1$. Cassatts Spearhead was the one to take second money, while .1. W. Messervys Addle M., loked upon as a sure thing before the race, could do no better than finish. Third. Mrs. Livingston was on hand and saw her colt win. N. K. Ileal has had his old plater. El Oro, returned to him by Guy Gray. Starter Ed Tribe, who officiated at the far western tracks, was a visitor today. Jockey James Butwell was sentenced to serve three days in jail this morning for assaulting a boy on a Baltimore street last night. .J;Iiu Nixosv -formerly connected with the llobert Navies siable, will race a stable of trotters next NT.-car. Work on the new steel grandstand at Woodbine is progressing rapidly and will be completed within a mouth.
