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NOTTER TO RiDE IN MARYLAND Baltimore. Md.. April 23. — Joe Notter, who has signed to ride Escoba for Kenneth D. Alexander in the Keiituckv Derby, will come to Maryland immediately after* the Derby and ritle at Pimlico as a free lame. NottT has left the employ of Harrv Payne Whitney, for whom he piloted Regret, when that famous mare won the Derby in 1915. He wires that he will Is- able to make 110 or 112 pounds and that he expects to demonstrate that he is as good as he was twelve and fifteen years back, when he was riding such horses as Frank Gill and Peter Pan with conspicuous success. Notter is the dean of the riding fraternity on this side. He has boon at the business of piloting race horses longer than any jockey of the first class still in Hrviee. He has witnessetl the passing of Walter Miller. Carroll Shilling, Arthur ltedferu. Tom McTaggart. Frank Keogh and a score of other stars of the pigskin, to none of whom he ever yielded as regards skill. Because of his weight he has not had much to do in the last throe or four years, but his occasional efforts on horses of good class have indicated he has lost none of his old sagacity and skill. Notter desires to make his start this year at Pimlico because the Pimlico weight scale is higher ill races of all varieties than is the scale of any other track, ami he emaerta to find more employment there than he would in Kentucky. He is sure of mounts in bath the Preakness Stakes and the Pimlico Spring Handicap, which races will certainly attract the best horses in the country this spring.
