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BELMONT CLUBHOUSE WILL BE OPENED House Warming Will Be Held May 11— United Hunts Meeting Given Official Sanction. New York. April 8. — At a meeting of the board of governors of the Turf and Field Club, it was decided to reopen the clubhouse at Belmont Park for the summer months on Saturday. May 11. Francis C. Bishop was elected a governor of the club to succeed It. P.. Van Cortland, deceased, and a number of candidates were admitted to memliership. Official sanction has been granted the United Hunts Racing Association to conduct its one day meeting May 25 at the Belmont Park Terminal course. The officials for the meeting are II. A. Bourne, W. L. Powers and W. P. Riggs. judges: Frank J. Bryan, handicapper: Frank T. Clark, starter: G?orge W.Gail, clerk of the course. Herman P. Conkling. clerk of the scales: Russell Tucker, paddock judge: Major Thomas Hitchcock, steward to represent the Jockey Club. Frank J. Bryan has gone to Maryland to confer with William P. Riggs on the book for the Pimlico meeting of th» Maryland Jockey Club. The book will be issued within a short time. It is reported that Fred Rehhergcr. secretary of both the Queens County Jockey Club and the Harford Racing Association, is slowly recovering from a severe attack of the grip. For a time Mr. Reh-berger was so ill that it was feared he might not be able to attend to bis duties at Havre de Grace.
