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PREPARING FOR PIMLICO MEETING. Baltimore, Md., October 21. Tasteful posters announcing that the fall meeting of the Maryland Jockey Club will take place at Pimlico from Monday. November 2, to Thursday, November 12, inclusive, have attracted the attention during the last week of horselovers, who look forward to these gatherings with impatience. The meetings at Pimlico are among the great racing events of the year for thousands of visitors. Spalding Lowe .Teukins has been eleeetd president of the Maryland Jockev Club to fill the unexpired term of the late William M. Manly, who died last June. His successor is a member of one or the oldest families of Maryland and he was chairman of the Baltimore Comity Racing Commission that passed the rule prohibiting every form of race track speculation except that of pari-mutuels. William B. Oliver has been elected vice-president iu place of Gen. Adam E. Booth, whose recent loss is also deeply felt. The other officials of the Maryland Jockey Club are AVilliam P. Riggs, secretary, and Charles E. McLane, treasurer: the directors comprising, besides the oliicers. F. J. Bryan. C. C. Ponltney, Sheehau, W. F. Presgrave, Robert J. Walden, Clarence I. Reynolds, D. Sterett Git-tings and Ral Parr. Some disappointment has been occasioned by the announcement that the Clabaugh Memorial Stakes, one of the spring two-year-old fixtures, has been abandoned, as the winner was usually called upon later to meet the best of the early division of youngsters in the Pimlico Nursery, as was the case last spring when Banquet, tlie Clabaugh conqueror, was vanquished by Ral Parrs The Mns-querader. The Clabaugh, however, failed to carry out satisfactorily the objects of its founders, which was to encourage the breeding of thoroughbreds in Maryland and adjoining states, so reluctantly it was decided not to renew it. The two-year-olds will find iu the Waldeu stakes at the coming fall meeting an excellent op-isortnnity to settle the question of superiority at a mile. The stake will be worth about ,000 to the winner, quite a tidy sum. and the fortunate victor will have its name enrolled on a list iiiclud-iii" Trance, Fauntleroy, Zeus, Penobscot, Ten Point and Superintendent, quite a gallant array of "good ones." As usual at Pimlico, which iossesses one of the finest and safest courses iu the countrv, steeplechases will lie a feature of the dailv program, and it is planned to give in addition six races on the Hat each day. I
