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SHILLING CASE IS SETTLED No License Will Be Issued to Him as a Rider, i Peaceful Co-operation Between The Jockey Club and Maryland State Racing1 Commission. NEW YORK, N. Y., November 18. A two hours conference was held yesterday afternoon at The Jockey Club offices between the stewards of The Jockey Club and the Maryland folks. The Maryland Jockey Club was represented by W. P. Riggs, the Maryland Racing Commission by Joseph N. Kennedy and the commission steward, George Brown, Jr., was present for Bowie. Commander J. K. L. Ross was also at the meeting, while the storm center, Carroll Shilling, waited in the anteroom. After going through facts of the case Commander Ross withdrew any and all applications he had made for a riding license for Shilling, . either to The Jockey Club or the Maryland State Racing Commission, and assured The Jockey Club stewards that as long as Shilling remained in his employ no application for a riding license on his behalf would be made to any turf body authorized to Issue licenses. He so informed Shilling, who agreed with his employer. There, was no rehearing of the case of Shilling at the meeting today and there will be none. Shilling will not ride. His license as a trainer is not affected. ilI"AXter-.-tbe -Maryland racing season " closes at Bowie November 30, the first of several conferences between the Maryland State Racing Commission members and the stewards of The Jockey Club will he held. Out of these conferences it is expected that there will come a much better and broader understanding of turf matters in general, turf laws, turf dictations and the reason for them. This understanding will be a bar to further mischief and propaganda such as was poured into the Maryland Racing Commission by the "friends" and backers of Carroll Shilling. As a. result there will be no further conflict to threaten the harmony of racing rules anywhere. The Maryland Racing Commission, after a consideration of its hasty ruling, now knows that its action was snap action and made without the proper consideration of racing law and rulings, which were carefully considered before being made. Before racing in Maryland and New York begins in 1921 it is understood that all present knots will be untied and the lines laid so that no more tangles will occur. At the winter conference it is likely that the Kentucky . Racing Commission and Canadian Racing Associations will have representation, as they should.
