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MARYLAND FALL CAMPAIGN NEAR BY HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., September 17. The season of autumn racing in Maryland will be inaugurated at the picturesque Havre de Grace race course next Wednesday, September 21, by the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Association. The Havre de Grace meeting of ten days duration will be followed in October by practically a months racing at Laurel Park under the direction of the Maryland State Fair Corporation and that by short November meetings at Pimlieo and Prince George Park, Bowie. The Southern Maryland Agricultural Associations fall meeting will finish Thanksgiving Day. The Havre de Grace meeting will be marked by the running of three 0,000 stake races the Eastern Shore Handicap, three-quarters, for two-year-olds; the Potomac, one mile and a sixteenth, for three-ycar.olds. and the Havre de Grace Handicap, one mile and an eighth, for three-year-olds and over and the distribution among horsemen of a matter of 14,000 in stakes and purses. The daily distribution will be over -1.000. The overnight purses will run from ,200 in added money to ,500. There will be plenty of first rate stee-plcehasing over a course that has been regularized in cve.-v way. The dates fixed by general manager Edward Burke for the running of the 0,000 1 stakes are: Eastern Shore, September 21; Potomac, September 24, and Havre do Grace Handicap, Oc- j tober 8. There are several hundred horses quartered at Havre de Grace and most of them will bo racing through the course cf the meeting. In Martin Nathanson the narford Agricultural and Breeders Association is served by a elerk .of the course who studies his available racing material and finds moans of bringing groups of runners of all classes together day after day in contests tliat develop lively speculation and keen, racing interest. There will be no two and three-horse fields racing at Havre do Grace,
