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NEW STEEPLECHASE COURSE Belmont Park; Jumping Track to Be Changed for Right-Hand Going. NEW YORK, X. Y., December 7. At a meeting, of the stewards..-of the. National. Steeplechusevniid uafctAsoclMtion ifeld last TninrstfiiyTWillkim--Leavltt and H. I. Pels appeared for the Westchester Racing Association and presented plans and details for a new steeplechase course at Belmont Park which will be thoroughly up to date, the horses to run the same way as at other tracks. This new course, which is to be completed in time for the spring meeting, will be arranged in conjunction witli the committee -on courses from the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association, the hope being that with the changes and the providing of a suitably-equipped schooling course it will bring a revival of local Interest, and serve to bring sport of a much better grade. The stewards, several of whom are owners of steeplechase horses, approve most heartily of the effort under way, and pledged their support in every way to the effort being made for their brancli of racing. This only means that with the many changes now-going at Belmont Park the steeplechase course will be made a right-hand one as the main racing .ground at .Belmont Park is to be. There were present at the meeting: Henry J. Morris, J. E. Davis, Henry W. Bull, F. S. von Stade, J. E. Widened A. Henry Higginson and H. S. Page. Applications for certificates as gentleman riders from James McAlpin Pyle, Arthur White and Charles K. Harrison, Jr., were approved, subject to the approval of the Hunts committee. The following licenses .to trainers and jockeys were granted: Trainers, Frank Farrar, T. F. Coles, D. Kearney, It. J. Howard and J. A. Murphy; Jockeys, W. Jones, Fred Crowley, William Gentry, J. Henderson and William Logan. The application for a jockeys license from .R. Jaibce was withdrawn. The appointment of Harry Rites as agent for Thomas Doford was approved. A. Henry Higginson, J. E. Widener and Henry J. Morris were appointed a committee to receive proxies for the election at the annual meeting of three stewards to succeed II. S. Page, J. E. Davis and F. S. von Stade, their terms us stewards expiring with 1920. The request of S. J. Bush for a cancellation of his trainers license so that he .would be permitted to ride as a jockey without restriction was granted.
