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I INNOVATION AT BOWIE BALTIMORE, Md., Oct 10. Richard Pending, track superintendent at Bowie, reports the completion of the club and recreation building, the erection of which was started at that course last summer. The building, which is complete in every detail, is a two-story affair, seventy feet long and thirty feet wide. It is divided in the middle, one-hair being reserved for white and the other half for colored. On the first floor in the middle of the building is a kitchenette, where visitors can obtain hot coffee and sandwiches at night On the upper story is tho lounging room, which contains an extensive turf library, all of the magazines and daily papers. The place is heated and finished in hardwood. It is located just opposite the seven-eighths post. The intention of the club is that if a sufficient number of horsemen winter there to employ an instructor for the exercise lads and to hold night school three nights a week.
