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BOWIE GROWING IN IMPORTANCE. A number of improvements will be made at the Bowie track before the opeuine of the next spring • meeting, it was announced Saturday. The present meeting has been the most successful in the tracks 1 history. On Thanksgiving day 83,000 was bandied I by tbe mutuel machines and the attendance was i over 7.500. The improvements will Include a new grandstand I and clubhouse. The Pennsylvania railroad will I build a spur to tbe track so that direct train connection with Washington may In- maintained duriug 1 I lie meetings. Being now an established success, it will lie . entirely in keeping with the fitness of things if » 1 substantial list of stake races Is auiiounced for I Bowie to dignify its meetings of 1916.