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MILITARY RACE FOR BOWIE Army Officers Are to Be the Guests of the Management When Race Takes Place. BALTIMORE, Md., ..November 6. General Adcl-bert Cronkite, one of the veteran army commanders of the A. E. F. in France, who is now stationed in Baltimore, will be the presiding steward at Bowie when the military race with officers of the. army riding in uniform is run. The date for the running of this race has not yet been fixed by clerk of the course Joseph McLennan and Colonels Stanley Koch and Charles L. Scott and Major A. A. Cederwald of the Remount Service, who arc arranging for it. General Rockenbach, commander of the tank corps at Camp Meade, will serve in the stewards .stand with General Cronkite. These general officers, with Major Chandler, Colonel Gam-brill, Lieuteanant-Colonel Supple, Captain Ross, Captain Henke, Colonel Koch, Colonel Scott and Major Cederwald, will be guests of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association at Prince George Park this coming Sunday at an oyster roast that that will be given in celebration of the opening of the new clubhouse. The cose of this clubhouse, which is of colonial style of architecture and built of brick, was close to 5,000. There is no handsomer or better appointed clubhouse in the East. Colonel Stanley Koch is the officer who rede the seven-eighths bred horse Mile. Denlse to victory iu the 300-mile endurance race in New England. Colonel Koch served the last eighteen months of the war in France as chief of the Remount Service. He is one of the most skillful horsemen in the; army. Major Chandler, who has an international reputation as a polo player, is the officer who rode Colonel Gambrllls French-bred thoroughbred. El Gardon, to victory in the military race at Laurel Park the other day.
