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APPLY FOR MARYLAND DATES Four Big Mile Tracks Ask for Same Allotment as Last Year. BALTIMORE. Md., rebraary »;. The Maryland Raciag oniinisii.n iias received anp! icat ions for I In IUJ.1 date for the one mile Hacks awder ils juris diction. These coarse* larlad* Howie, Har- d Urace, rim lira and Laurel. tnder the Burke law reoaeata for racing dates must lie in the hands ol the lommisvidii by February 1 and must lie acted ■[pot. by March 1. The ..-. hialiirirr* Had expected la pa-s tie dates the first part of the week, but likeJ] wi1 not act before the Utter part. It is aaderstood that the MMWC date* is last year have been applied for and it is believed tli.it they will be granted with the possible exceptiaa of a shift of a day ni- so. Howie. 1- aaw I. will have the privilege of opening the -e-1-...i RatWtday, %pril 1 and run fir -limit twelve days, nit "g Friday, April 14. Hai * • Grace, which aaed thirteea days last prin:. is -iaieii to i sin aperatians Ratarday. April 13 am; . ml Ratardaj April -"" Tkla will give Bowie two Katarday* sad Havn d- tlrace three. liinlii-o hi- reqwested the first twelve day- ii May, opeauu Maj 1 ami dosiag Maj IS, which alaa .i!l s:ive ..hi Mil top two Saturdays. The Hartford County plant will utart ff Ii.- tali rampaiga with tea days the latter part of Heptem her, followed by twenty three days in October by 1. 111 el. then eleven days the first part of Nnvem-iier by Himlico and twelve days by Howie the latter pari. Provided the fall dates ran eaaenrreatty Howie will not Ik- able to get in Thanksgiving Day. which happens to be the Ijim day ■■ the month. The fact that the Kentucky Derby K sis ted for May 13 at Churchill Downs, Ixniisvillp. i- not raaa ing ihe Maryland Jockey Club any sleepless Bights. They have picked the date for which the 0,000 Preaknesa is slated. In the past the Derby asuallj was run a week earlier, about May T or 8, gad Ike Preakaeee the last day of the PlaUica meeting. Kentucky is slated to open tka spring season about Ap.il «i ar M. y 1. The raaakag mi the Preakaesa aad Derby aa May 13 will prevent the same three year-olds from ap peering in both couteats. Ia the nasi -om • of Ike starters in the Kentucky Darky were shipped to Maryland for the second big feature .if the spring season. William I*. Rigga secretary of the Maryland lackey flub, stated today that ii i- paasible that be will take up with the Churchill Downs manage meat about the running of the two big events new dated tor May IS. . — a
