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BOWIE MEETING NEAR Everything Ready for Opening of Maryland Racing Next Monday Popular Tippity Witchet in Fine Fettle for 5000 Inau ¬ gural Handicap BALTIMORE Md March 28 A journey of twentyone miles from here finds you in the township of Bowie where is located Prince George Park at which the Southern Maryland Agricultural Fair Association will inaugurate the Maryland racing season of 1323 next Monday April 2 There everything is hustle and bustle making ready for what is expected to be the best meeting ever held at the Bowie track Arrivals from New Orleans Cuba and other points have been the order of things for the last week More horses are expected from Havana tomorrow as several shipments left there Monday and Tuesday TuesdaySuperintendent Superintendent DickPending has the Bowie track in firstclass condition and unless con ¬ siderable more rain falls within the next few days the course should be exceptionally fast for the inaugural days sport sportRacing Racing secretary Joseph McLennan has prepared an attractive ooening day program with the Inaugural Handicap of 5000 added as the piece de resistance Entries close for this race today and it is expected Chat a large and representative band of handicap horses will be named to contest for it itIn In discussing the probable outcome of this J5000 feature those who have seen the horses working at Bowie are convinced that none has a better chance to win it than the everpopular Tippity Witchet WitchetPAH PAH ADVANCED IN TRAINING TRAININGLouis Louis T Bauers gallant little Broomstick gelding which won the first race of the opening day of the spring meeting of 1017 under the silks of Harry Payne Whitney his breeder has done well since he came up from New Orleans some ten days ago and is obviously farther advanced than any other prospective Inaugural candidate now in Maryland MarylandG G W Foremans Super although in better condition probably than he has been in several years is still high in flesh The same is true of H G Bedwells Fair Gain Carey Winfrey Richard Pending and other neutral observers and eyewitnesses of the morning workouts doubt seriously whether Foreman and Bod well will have these horses ready for their best efforts by April 2 2In In their opinion if Tippity Witchet is to be beaten by any horse that wintered in this vicinity the horse that beats him will be either George Winglields promising three yearold General Thatcher or Harry Payne Whitneys Broomster General Thatcher and Broomster are at Benning and they are farther advanced toward racing condition than any other horses of mature years in training at the old AVnshington course courseFrom From the beginning Tippity Witchet has been a good Bowie horse spring and fall A natural mud runner he likes the deep going of the Southern Maryland course whether it be wet or dry Twice since his arrival from New Orleans he has worked three quarters mile over the seveneighths mile course on which the Inaugural will be run in 120 Several times he lias gone three eighths in 7 i5 or 38 38XONTFOKT XONTFOKT JONES BIG STRING STRINGThe The most pretentious stable at Prince Ceorge Park is that of Montfort Jones trainer Kay Spence bringing a string of thirty horses from the Virginia farm farmThe The W H Coe horses which raced all win ¬ ter In Cuba have arrived here safely The star of this consignment is Mountain Lassie which won seven races at Havana Jockey J Urunner accompanied the horses and will rule for the stable at Bowie BowieThere There will be no lack of riding material for the approaching meeting Among the jockeys now galloping horses at Bowie Ben iiing and Pimlico are Joe Rowan George Rabin 1 Brunner M Schwartz A Abel F Coltiletti IX Stirling T Parrington R Iauley E Josiah B Parke E Smallwood 1 Xoellcr G Mein F Smith A Roach J Wallace C Lang and C Kummer Kummerlames lames Arthur has ten horses here which he brought from New Orleans all in con ¬ dition to race raceCrack Crack o Dawn and Whalebone are among the horses T E Crist brought here from the Crescent City CityOthers Others who came here from New Orleans are A S Woodliffe with Saddle and Boots and RamUin C Phillips with five and M Murphy with twelve including such as Easte side Knight of the Heather Billy Barton and Lady Myra MyraR R F Carmans string of four came over to Bowie from his Maryland farm last week
