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RED CROSS DAY AT BOWIE TRACK Gross Receipts of Day Given Over to Worthy Cause Racing Is Featureless Howie Mil November 25 Red Cross day at Bowie attracted a comparatively light attendance However the Prince George Chapter of the Ked Cross was enriched by 4053 by the Southern Mary laud Agricultural Associations action in turning over its gross receipts to the worthy cause Uncle Sams war tax being the only penny withheld from the contribution All officials and employes were obliged to pay admission admissionThe The feature race of the day was robbed of some of its promised attractiveness through the with ¬ drawal of Slippery Elm and others It fell to Minto II which performed in much improved fash ¬ ion over the faster track than that which prevailed on his two previous starts Deckmate after a slow beginning finished an easy second secondAthlone Athlone won the first race leading all the vay while Ormonda accounted for the second in the same way wayBallast Ballast scored in runaway fashion in the fifth but Poor Butterfly was forced to a hard drive to beat Oucen of the Sea in the sixth sixthAnother Another close finish ame in the closing race Kebo outgaming Sister Emblem in a hard fought stretch struggle struggleAlbert Albert Simons who trains a division of the H P Whitney visitorsR stable was among todays visitors R P Carman retained Jusqu au Bout by claim for 1910 for The Bench Stable StableG G W Fonuan claimed Queen of the Sea for 1315 from Sam Louis after her defeat defeatThe The old racer Charley McFerran succumbed to pneumonia this morning morningThe The 4653 realized for the Red Cross compares favorably with the greatest sum realized on any similar occasion during the racing season It is the greatest sum than any Maryland association has willingly leurired itself of because the admissions were not donated at the Laurel track on Billy Kelly Eternal day
