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DANGER OF TURF WAR OVER Jockey Club and Maryland Racing Commission to Meet and Discuss Shilling Case. NEW YORK, X. Y., Xovember 13. There will be no. turf war over the reinstatement in Maryland of Carroll Shilling. Instead, the Maryland Racing Commissions action over the case will lead to a conference between the commission and the Jockey Club, and probably a better understanding between the two bodies in future. During the conference, probably here early next week, some of the details of the misunderstanding are likely to be uncovered. Home of the political wedges and their users, such as! were used in Kentucky and other places from time to time in the past which, by the way, failed in Shillings case recently in Kentucky are likely to be uncovered. The stewards of The Jockey Club held a meeting at headquarters yesterday afternoon and discussed the case fully, and invited Messrs. Kennedy, Oliver and Tawnnus, the members of the Maryland Racing Commission, to meet them at The Jockey Club rooms at a convenient time to them early next week. Assistant Secretary Algernon T. Daingerfield left New York for Baltimore last night bearing the invitation. Commander Ross will be present at a meeting- here nt which the Maryland Jockey Club representatives and Shilling will also appear, Ross thinks Shilling haH been sufficiently punished, and will urge The Jockey Club to grant him a license. From The Jockey Club after yesterday afternoons meeting this statement was issued: "At a meeting of The Jockey Club Friday, a quorum being present, the secretary presented a letter from the Maryland Jockey Club asking for a hearing for C. H. Shilling at which Commander J. K. L. Ross and a member of the board of directors of the Maryland Jockey Club could be present. On motion duly seconded, the secretary was instructed to notify the Maryland Jockey Club that such a hearing would be granted and to so advice Commander Ross and C. H. Shilling. "Assistant Secretary Algernon Daingerfield of The Jockey Club was authorized to arrange for such a meeting. "Assistant Secretary Algernon Daingerfield, representing The Jockey Club, will attend the opening of the mooting of the Southern Maryland Association at Bowie Saturday to consult with that organization."
