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CLOSING OF BOWIE STAKES Pour Events Totalling 7,000 in Value Open Until Nov. 8. 0 Southern Maryland Course Will Have But Little Opposition Through Most of Meeting. BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 3. Stakes Avorth a total of 7,000 to be reneAved at Prince Georges Park, Bowie, in the course of the NoAeinber racing of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association, Avili be closed Saturday, N a ember 8, by James F. OHara at his office, 504 and 505 Lexington Building, Baltimore, ynd at BoAvie, Md. These specials are the Prince Georges Handicap of ,500 added for three-year-olds at one mile and an eighth ; Gadsden D. Bryan Memorial Handicap of 0,000 added for all ages at one mile ; Thanksgiving Handicap of 0,100 added for three-year-olds and OAer at one mile and three-sixteenths, and Endurance Handicap of 0,000 added for two-year-olds at one mile. The nomination fee in each race Avill be 0 and the starting, fee 0. The Prince Georges will be run Monday, NoA-ember 17, the opening day of the meeting ; the Bryan Memorial Saturday, NoAember 22; the Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 27, and Endurance, Saturday, November 2D, the closing day. JfO OTBlElt RACIXG. Prince Georges Park racing from November 17 to 29, inclusive, Avill be Avithout opposition except at Lexington, Ky., and at Phoenix, Ariz., Avidely separated points, before Thanksgiving Day, Avhen the Avinter meetings at Jefferson Park, New Orleans and Tijuana, Mex., Avill begin. The Southern Maryland Agricultural Associations stakes and overnight races Avill accordingly attract the best horses of the strongest eastern and AAestern stables still in training. The total money distribution will be something like 40,000. The program book has been prepared by Joseph McLennan, one of the most capable secretaries of American and Canadian racing. Prince Georges Parle boasts one of the best mile tracks in the country. There is a back-stretch extension that permits of the running of sprints of six, six and a half and seven furlongs around only one turn. The use of tills seven-furlong chute enables Mr. McLennan to make programs that give Bowie racing -ariety not offered on any other American courses, barring Belmont Park, Aqueduct and Saratoga. Superintendent Richard Pending has been steadily improving the going at BoAvie until he has developed a track on Avhich a fast sprinter can run three-quarters in 1:12 or better Avithout distress, and a mile in 1:40 or thereabout Pending has provided for the stabling of some 800 horses, but there Avill fContinued on sixteenth page. CLOSING OF BOWIE STAKES Continued from first page. be all of 1,000 available for the coming meeting. Two hundred others will find quarters at Benning track in the District of Columbia, fifteen miles away. Such of these as race at Bowie will go over from day to day on the interurban electric railways specials. Prince Georges Park is situated between Baltimore and Washington on this electric line, and about a mile and a half distant from the town of Bowie, which is served by the Pennsylvania railroad. J Bowie racing is conducted under the license j of the Maryland Racing Commission. The utew.irds will be Baker Waters and George Brown ; the s ai ter James Milton, who wields a flag at th other Maryland mile tracks ! Havre de Grace, Laurel and Pimlico ; the ! judges of the finish George Miller, John i tloward Anderson and John Turner, and I clerk of the scales, John Turner.
