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PIMLICO MEETING OPENS SCENE OF RACING IN MARYLAND SHIFTS TO OLD BALTIMORE TRACK. Big Crowd in Attendance and Interest in Sport Continues Keen Kewessa Scores His Fourth Victory in Five Starts. Baltimore, Md., November 2. Pimlieo threw open its gates this afternoon for the fall meeting of the Maryland Jockey Club, which will last for ten racing days, after which the thoroughbreds will go to Havre de Grace for the remaining days of November. The day was perfect and a big crowd turned out, with many Baltimore society folk in attendance. Some improvements has been made at Pimlieo since the spring meeting, notably the installation of a big board in the field on which the results of the um-tuels are announced. The goodly crowd on hand shows that there is no diminution in interest on the part of the lovers of racing in this state. Seven races were carded, with no particular event featured, but the sport was highly interesting and several of the finishes were or the exciting kind, particularly the fourth, a selling affair for two-year-olds, which went to Stalwart Helen. Kewessa kept up his winning streak for "Billy" Oliver, taking the lifth, a six-furlong dash, handily from P. S. P. Randolphs Besom. Kewessa stumbled right at the start, but recovered quickly and went on after Besom, the pacemaker. It was not until after the stretch was reached that Kewessa got on even terms with Besom, but from the three-sixteenths post to the end the Oliver horse was runuing easily. It cost Kewessas owner 00 to win the. race, for when offered for sale, C. N. Freeman, owner of Chas. Cannell, bid Kewessa up 00 over his entered price of 00. It was Kewessas fourth victory in five starts. Gywn Tompkins will retire Ills stable Into whiter quarters at the conclusion of the Pimlieo meeting. He has several promising green steeplechasers, one of which is the two-year-old Ruffo, which has already schooled well. He Is a natural fencer and has quite a turn of speed on the flat. William Northey, who has been in Kentucky inspecting the working of the mutuel plant at Latonia, was a visitor at Pimlieo this afternoon. He will leave for Montreal tomorrow. W. C. Westmoreland and John .T. McCafferty departed with their stables for Charleston on Saturday. They will take iu some of the fairs in South Carolina before the opening of the Palmetto Park meeting. There are several changes in the officials here since last spring, John J. Mackessy is paddock judge P. T. Roche timer, and James McLaughlin patrol judge. Gainer is reported to have spread a. foot in his race iu the National Handicap at Laurel on Saturday. Pandean, which was jumped on and cut down the last time lie started, is getting along nicely and will be a starter at Havre de Grace.
