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I i i i , i , ; BOWIES PLEASANT OPENING PERFECT WEATHER AND TRACK CONDITIONS INDUCE A GREAT ATTENDANCE. Eagle Takes the Chief Race of the Afternoon — New Mutuel Machines Viewed With Attention by Experts — Roamer to Come West. Baltimore. Md.. November 13. — The Southern Maryland Agricultural Fair Associations fall meeting began today under most flattering conditions. With mild summerlike weather and a track that showed decided improvement over last spring, conditions could hardly have been improved u|M.n. The attendance was large and speculation brisk. The new machines, which were used fiw the first tinu this afternoon, proved a big success, linder the new system there are only three machines instead of the usual twenty-five or thirty. As the operators became accustomed to them, they gained speed and everything ran along smoothly during the afternoon. John llachmeister and Bob Saxton of Cincinnati came over to watch the new machines at work and Abe Orpen. who will install the machines on his half-mile tracks in Toronto next year, aa well pleased with the wav they worked, Large fields went to the post in a majority of the races and close finishes attended the running of several of them. Tlie Inaugural Handicap went to Emil Hera Eagle, which made all the pace ami heat Noureddin in handy fashion. Cliff Field fell while rounding the first turn and Robert Bradley propped after seeming to start. Andrew Millers great horse Roamer has been r •-i tired for the year. He will be shipped to Kentucky next spring and prepared for the Kentucky llandi-i cap. to be run at Douglas lark. Samuel Louis has disposed of Supreme, which he claimed out of a spiling race at Pimlico. Smith and Farrar were the purchasers. Silas Veitch. with a stable of jumpers, and L. Feustcl. with his good three-year-old He Will, shipped from Pimlico to Belmont Park this moruing. Assistant Secretary Algernon Daingerfiehl of th« Jockey Club was a visitor at the Bowie opening. Andrew Miller, one of the Jockey Club stewards and owner ..f the champion Roamer. was another. Flittergold and Fen mouse, purchased from August Belmont by Gus Miiller, will be wintered at the Penning track. Next year they will be campaigned bv Mr. Midler under the name of tlie Philadelphia Stable. T. J. Shannon will winter the Edward McBiide string at the Driving Park, which adjoins the Pimlico track. The yearlings of the string include a chestnut filly by Ballot — Eilangowau. making her a half-sister to Cock o the Walk: a chestnut colt by Toddington — My Fair Kentucky, a bay colt by Peep oDuy — Janet Gray, and a bay colt by Oman! — Wayward Lass. The latter is a brother to Buzz Around. The older horse in trainer Shannons care are Squeeler, Tom Elward. Eddie Henry. Pesky and Maudie. a daughter of The Commoner that never started. He will also winter Casco for Tom Elward. while Toddling will be sent to Cuba with the James Arthur string. The yearlings in this stable have attracted a great deal of attention and as shrewd a judge as Fox hall P. Keene was greatly impressed with the Peep olfciy colt. It is said that before the opening of the easto-u racing season next year an amendment will ! •■ made to the rules of racing relating to selling races. It is intimated that this change will provide that all tlie horses in a race sliall share equally in the rtiu-up money. •
