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BOWIES ARMY RACE FEATURE Second Maryland Military Race to Be Run on November 26. BALTIMORE, Md., November 12. November 2G has been fixed as the day for the running at Prince George Park, Bowie, of the military race, with bfficers of the United States army riding in uniform while a couple of general officers watch from the stewards stand. This will be one of the features of the meeting, which begins Saturday to run through to the end of the month. It will be marked by the distribution among horsemen of ti matter of 130,000 to 50,000. The race was arranged at a conference between Colonel Frank Spear Armstrong, . Colonel Stanley Koch and Major A. A. Cederwald of the Remount Service of the regular army and Major C. I. Chandler, the officer who rode he G anion to victory in the military race at I-nirPl Park, and Joseph McLennan, clerk of the course of tlie Southern Maryland Agricultural Association. The distance is to be seven furlongs, the purse 1,500 and the competing horses will be animals owned either by the War Department or by officers of the army Except as to the distance, these were the conditions of the Laurel military race. The distance of the Bowie race was fixed at seven furlongs because there is a backstretch extension at Bowie which permits of the running of races of seven furlongs around only one turn. Major Stanley Koch, the rider of the winner of the army endurance race in New England, Mile. Denlse, will be one of the officers participating in the military race; Major Chandler, the armys polo champion, will be. another. General Adelbert Cronklte, commander of the Seventh Corps, whose headquarters are in Baltimore, and General S. D. Rockenback, commander of the Tank Corps at Camp Meade, will lie the officiating stewards. It is not improbable that the mount of Colonel Koch will be the veteran plater Hong Kong, which was purchased by the army the other day through Lieutenant Thomas McCrerry, a veteran trainer of thoroughbreds, who is now-in the Remount Servle . .., .
