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; MARYLAND JOCKEY CLUB 1 Celebrates Fiftieth Anniversary with Opening of Fall Meeting. Billy Kelly Victor" in the Inaugural Attraction Steeplechase a Series of Mishaps. BALTIMORE. Md., November 1. The Maryland Jockey Club celebrated its fiftieth anniversary today when the fall season of racing at Pimlico began. The old Hill Top course never looked prettier than it did this afternoon. Patrons of the club were amazed at the various improvements, the most important of which was the doubling of the capacity of the grandstand, made possible by the addition of some three hundred feet to the old structure. New bleachers adjoining the grandstand were also constructed, and Pimlico can now seat a larger crowd than any other track in Maryland. The attendance was up to the usual standard, the clubhouse contingent being especially well represented by many prominent families from Maryland and surrounding states. The. Pimlico Serial Weight-for-Age Race No. 1, which was offered as the main attraction, proved an easy victory for Billy Kelly, which beat his stablemate, Motor Cop, by a length. The latter set. a fast pace until well in the home stretch, where Hilly Kelly came from behind to win in easy fashion". Motor Cop was shaken up a bit to withstand the rush of Audacious. Only4 five -of the nine Rtarters , finished- the course "w4tton-Triishap;,in ";tlfdr steeplechase, which, was over the two-mile course. TheWiiiner turned up in Martian, which beat the Greentree Stable entry, Mohican, a couple of lengths. At the fourth fence Plumcot bolted out of the course and at the -eleventh Joyful, which was in front at the time, fell and Warlock and Overmatch tumbled over her. Smoot, who had the mount on Joyful, came out of the scrimmage with a broken collar-bone, the other riders sustaining a few bruises. The Arlington Handicap furnished a sensational finish, in which Sennings Park beat Yellow Hand by a neck, the winner swerving out and barely lasting to get the decision. The race was fast run, two-fifths of a second being clipped from the track record. , The attendance at Pimlico this afternoon was swelled by a big influx of visitors from New York. Among the arrivals were James Fitzsimmons, Thomas Healey, Frank Herold, J. J. McAuley, Mart Demarest, Thomas Hodge, F. Dahnken, Morton Schwartz, J. W. McClelland, Algernon Daingerfield and Doc Riddle. Ensor, Ames, Aron, Sande, J. Mooney and C. H. Miller were among the riders who got in. J. Heu-pel and J. Rodriguez were again in the saddle. W., Dugan is expected here in a few days to make final arrangements with several owners he contemplates racing some horses for in Cuba during the winter., He will take, a number of the P. T. Chinh horses from Kentucky to Oriental Park. Dugan turned out two of the racers he brought to Cuba last winter and these have been going along at Oriental Park for a month past. Tom Hodge will race rather a pretentious string in Guba. B. B. Rice shipped Mumbo Jumbo and James over .from Laurel. The remainder of his string were pent , to Cuba. Rice lias arranged with E. R. Bradley to take over jockey S. Boyle. The officials for the meting are as follows: Stewards, George Brown Jr., representing the Maryland Racing Commission; Wm. P. Riggs and Frank J. Bryan. Representing the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association, Frank .J. Bryan. Judges, E. C. Smith and H. P. Conkling. Starter James Milton. Handicapper, Frank J. Bryan. Clerk of the scales, H.- P. Conkling. Paddock Judge, P. T. Roche. Patrol Judges, H. A. Mordecai Wm. Doyle, George T. Miller. Timer, Wm. Jennings. Representatives of the Maryland Racing Commission, Carlos M. De Garmendia, judge at large; John E. Charsee, auditor.
