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HA WTHORNE TURF NOTES AND OTHER NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST Major E. O. Trowbridge of the U. S. army arrived at Hawthorne Thursday to take charge of the campaign that will be opened here Friday for membership in the U. S. Remount Service Association. There is a membership at the present time of 4,000, Chicago being at the bottom of the list, haying the least members of any of the larger cities, and it is hoped that this shortage of membership can be overcome during the present race meeting at Hawthorne. General Bell, also of rne TT. S. Remount Service, will join Major Trowbridge Saturday with his staff of officers, which Includes some of the most prominent army officers in the remount service. The army officers will solicit funds Saturday at Hawthorne to be used in increasing the remount station now located here. It is planned to bring three more brood mares to Hawthorne this fall and gradually increase the number each year until Chicago will have one of the largest stations in the country. Major Trowbridge has just completed a tour of all the remount stations, where several colt shows have been staged, and he reports the young thoroughbreds of the highest class. The Remount-owned stallions are located in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, California, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana,, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Missouri and Montana. Major Trowbridge reports that a large number of requests for stallions have been received from all over the country that could not be filled because no stallions were on hand and because funds were not available for the purchase of additional stallions. The greatest number of requests are as follows: Texas, 91; Arkansas, 71; New Mexico, 47; Missouri, 38; Oklahoma, 36; Wyoming, 31; Illinois, 28, and Idaho, 20. Requests from various other states brings the total up to 576 at the present time. AHumeur, one of the Remount stallions, is located at Binghamton, N. "2"., and recently was made famous by his daughter, Sallys Alley, winning the Futurity. The Illinois Jockey Club will entertain as their guests Saturday afternoon 150 wounded ex-service men from the Speedway Hospital The club has arranged to bring them to and from the track and serve luncheon and supper for them at the clubhouse dining room. Marsh Shanks, president of the Ice Cream Dealers Association and member of the Illinois Jockey Club, has arranged to furnish ice cream for the soldiers dulng the afternoon free of charge. Trainer J. H. Hankins and jockey W. Mee-han came before judge Murphy yesterday to explain the ride on Marine Corps in the fifth race Wednesday afternoon. Trainer Hankins claimed that he had instructed the boy to keep to the front, while Meehan contended that he was in a tight place and that instead of pulling up his mount was unable to get through. No action was taken against trainer Hankins, but Meehan was told he could accept no further mounts at this meeting, judge Murphy explaining -that his ride on Marine Corps was unsatisfactory. Jockey J. Chalmers will be out of the saddle for a couple of days on account of a severe burn on his neck from the webbing which he received during Wednesdays racing. It was learned this morning that the stable of J. H. Louchheim was shipped to Kenil-worth by mistake and is being reshipped to Hawthorne. The horses are expected to arrive late Thursday night or Friday morning. A rumor is current that the Hawthorne meeting will be extended. Presiding steward Joseph A. Murphy, however, denies this emphatically and states that the meeting will positively end Saturday, October 14, as announced in these columns yesterday. Judge Murphy said : "I personally am opposed to a long meeting and aside from the one day which the Illinois Jockey Club extended the Hawthorne meeting there will be no further extension." E. Cottrell wired judge Murphy from Toledo, Ohio, yesterday to ascertain how many horses would be shipped from Hawthorne to that point. The management has arranged a handicap for next Monday, to be called the Chicago Handicap, with a purse of ?2,000, and another handicap for Tuesday, to be called the Columbus Handicap. Jefferson Livingston arrived this afternoon and judge Murphy authorized associate judge Charles T. Essig to make him an offer of ,000 to bring Firebrand to Hawthorne to race in a stake race now being planned for the closing day of the meeting. Starter George T. Miller is getting together quite a large schooling list here, the following horses being added this morning: Eris, Perch, "Vansylvia, Jack Hill and Money. Jockey J. Petzholdt, riding at Hawthorne, is a Russian Cossack and appears to be quite a promising youngster. Tim Cullinane of Havana, 111., was a visitor today. He intends to get back in racing if it continues here. Martin Nathanson also reached Hawthorne Thursday afternoon.
