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MEETING AT BOWMAN PARK Cross -Country Events to Be Run at Picturesque Course Next October. NEW YORK. N. Y., May 23.— The directors of the Westchester Biltmore Steeplechase Association, Oliver Harriman, H. E. Man-ville, Joseph F. Haggerty, Robert Law, Jr., and John McEntee Bowman, chairman, encouraged by the success of last autumns inaugural race meeting, have decided to hold a meeting exclusively of cross-country events over the picturesquely sporting course at Bowman Park, Rye, N. Y., on October 3 and October 6. This will be the first serious attempt in this country to give a cross-country meeting. The program each day will consist of five events, a steeplechase for hunters over brush, one for hunters over timber, a hurdle race, a steeplechase for four-year-olds and upward, and a similar event limited to three-year-olds like the Harbor Hill Steeplechase, run the last week of the Aqueduct Fall meeting. The Westchester Biltmore ,000 Gold Cup Steeplechase for hunters at about three and a half miles over brush, as last year, will be the amateur feature of the first days program, while the professional feature will be the steeplechase for three-year-olds to be run on the second day of the meeting. Hurdle races proved so successful at the United Hunts meetings and also at the inaugural Bowman Park meeting that this feature is being incorporated in the program at the request of many owners and trainers who believe that these events tend to produce jumpers which later can be converted into chasers. The course at Bowman Park has been highly praised by cross-country sportsmen and appeals strongly to the general public as a perfect setting for sport "between the flags." Some improvements and changes are planned by the association and Bowman Park should be the most practicable and most beautiful cross-country course in America.
