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1 ILLINOIS JOCKEY CLUB MEETS WEDNESDAY Secretary Thomas E. Bourke of the Illinois Jockey Club left Sunday morning for Bowie, Md., on an important mission regarding tho election of officials, which will be held Wednesday night at the club headquarters in the Garrick Theater building. While at Bowie Mr. Bourke will arrange a definite settlement with Judge Joseph A. Murphy regarding the stewardship for tho spring meeting at Hawthorne. Whether or not Judge Murphy will again act as presiding judge will be decided while Mr. Bourke is at the Maryland race course, where Mr. Murphy is acting as presiding judge. Mr. Bourke by this time has probably interviewed many of the leading horsemen whose stables are now racing at Bowie, and secured promises of the majority to ship to Hawthorne for the spring meeting some time in May, the dates of which will bfe decided upon at tho clubs meeting Wednesday night. After finishing his conference with racing officials and owners at Bowie Secretary Bourko will go direct to Washington, where he plans arranging through Mr. A. A. Cedar-wald, secretary of the American Remount Association, for a meeting with Secretary of War Weeks to procure that officials opinion concerning promoting Remount Service in Illinois.
