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1 BOWIE RACING STIRRING SELLING PLATERS MONOPOLIZE THE CARD BUT FURNISH EXCITING FINISHES. Not a Scratch Made— Purses to Be Increased Beginning Next Monday — Quick Bid Up and Sold After Winning. Baltimore. Md., April 6. — A featureless card was offered to patrons of racing at the Bowie course this afternoon, but this matter was overlooked when stirring sport was furnished by practically all of the seven races. Again the cheaper grade of platers had an inning, the whole card being under selling conditions. An increase in the number of starters was noticeable. A feature was that not one scratch was posted during the course of the afternoon. This is a new record for the Bowie course and one that has been equalled only on a few occasions elsewhere. Commencing with Monday next the management of the course has decided there will be no purse of less value than 00. while several 00 ever-night purse races will also be carded. The selling race troubles again broke out when P. E. Fitzgerald bid Quick, winner of the fourth race up to 00. an advance of 00 over the entered price and became his owner. A. C. Par-retto retaliated on the Garth establishment by claiming Ida Claire for 00. Johnny Mellinger. a Buffalo layer who was one of the information men at Oaklawn, was an arrival from Hot Springs. He will remain here for several days. Capt. W. F. Presgraves string, which is located at Pimlico. numbers nineteen. Capt. Presgrave plans to ship the division of the stable that will be raced on the Canadian circuit, to Toronto at the conclusion of the Pimlico meeting while A. G. Weston will go to Belmont Park with those that will race on the eastern tracks. In the latter band will be the Thomas Clyde horses. Among the owners stabled at the driving track vhich adjoins the Pimlico course are P. Sheridan. E. McBride, and N. K. Beal. The horses that Mr. Sheridan raced at New Orleans and Hot Springs ■eached Baltimore yesterday. Miil Hy:ins is the most recent arrival from New Vork. His horses are at Bowie and he will show his colors before long. T. McTaggart will report to James Rowe at Havre de Grace within a few days. It is trainer Roves intention to fit the Harry Payne Whitney Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Handicap candidates •t the Maryland track and ship them from there to Louisville. II. O. Comstock will dispose of all his two-year-■ 1.1s now in training in Maryland and return to : ilifornia. Albert Songer. some years ago a rider of ability both on the flat and through the field, today received a dispatch from Toronto announcing the death of his father. He left tonight for his home. P. room sedge, purchased from J. Phillips by E. T. Z.-llicoffer recently, picked up a nail yesterday and will not be seen at the post for some time. Jockey Haynes, who rode so well yesterday, is a brother of Barrett Haynes, the cross-country rider. This little fellow came to Maryland to ride for A. C. Parretto. but the way Lewis Garth has been going after the Parretto horses may compel him to make another engagement to keep him busy. He .is a promising lightweight rider. Barrett Haynes is under contract to ride through the field for Herbert L. Pratt this season. The Pratt string has been training at Benning and will be shown under colors at the Havre de Grace meeting. Jockey R. Jarboe was suspended for six days by starter Dade for disobedience at the barrier in the sixth race. F. J. Stevens, who has been employed by H. G. Bedwell as assistant trainer for the past three years, has severed his connections with that turfman. Stevens, before going with the Bedwell establishment, trained Spellbound and others for M. C. Pritchard. After Quick was bid up and bought by P. E. Fitzgerald, his owner removed the bridle from the horse when he brought him to the paddock and turned him loose, telling Fitzgerald to catch him the best way he could. The matter was brought to the attention of the stewards. Harry White, who looks after shipment of the horses to Cuba, gave horsemen some further information about the new boats that are being constructed by the East Coast railroad and which will be put into commission August 15. These boats will be forty feet longer and fifteen feet wider than the Henty M. Flagler. They will be large enough to accommodate any express baggage or sleeping car and will be equipped with a wireless telegraph outfit. This will insure the United States government giving them a license to carry passengers, which means that all attendants in future can accompany the horses across the gulf. F. W. Foster was an arrival from Hot Springs and T. J. Elward got in from Toronto. W. Martin has wired for stalls. He is bringing a half dozen horses that H. S. Newman raced on the southern tracks during the winter. T. J. Shaw was a visitor this afternoon. He came over from New York for the afternoon.
