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BALTIMORE MAY HAVE TWO MORE TRACKS. Local Men Back of One Project and Horsemen Behind the Other. Raltiinore, Md., November 23. Ground may be broken, according to reports, in the near future, for one or more new race tracks in Raltimore County, mid it is also possible that the Timonium half-mile plant may be enlarged to a mile oval. It is said that certain Raltimorcans and others have purchased a piece of land about two miles on this side of Chase Station for the purpose of erecting a mile track, and that the owners of horsts racing here will get together and build another in the vicinity of llalethorpe. Those interested in Timonium would like to see that place made larger. Members of the Raltimore County Racing Commission stated Wednesday night that no one has been to see them to request dates for any new venture in Raltimore County. If a track should be built under their jurisdiction dates would have to be granted by them before April 15. It would be folly for the promoters to build a track unless assured of dates. An incident like this happened several years ago when dates were asked for the Harford County Racing Commission for a track to be built opposite Havre de Grace. They were refused by the commission and the court upheld that body, so the plant was not erected. Oscar Lewisohn, of New York, is reported to have said that he would head the subscription list with 0,000, and would give more if necessary to promote the track to be built by the horsemen. This plan is to interest all horsemen possible and make it a rule to take only ten per cent of their investment, with a small sinking fund until the track is paid for. The money earned would go into purses. The law allows the Raltimore County Racing Commission to distribute seventy days, with no more than twenty-six days to each association. The Maryland Jockey Club has used fifteen in the spring and eleven in the fall. Prospect Park ran five days last spring, and so did the Gentlemens Driving Park. Electric Park, until the ground was cut up into building lots, staged a meeting after Pinilico, and, it is said, one set of promoters might use this charter. An offer for their plant was made the stockholders of Timonium just after the fair and race meeting closed there in September, but nothing was accomplished then by the would-be purchasers. However, only yesterday one stockholder was approached and asked if lie wished to sell his holdings. The Timonium Fair lost money last year, it is said, and with the building of a mile track the stockholders would be in a position to wipe out this debt, promote a bigger fair and be in a position then to keep on the right side of the ledger.
