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BOWIFiifjrii READY FOR BUGIF AT BOWIF iifjrii 1 ir 11 UUUJULj f I LIU I JULa Over 1500 Horses Assembled in the Baltimore Washington WashingtonArea Area for Maryland Racing Season Beginning BeginningTuesday Tuesday at Prince teorges Park BALTIMORE Mdf March 30 Above 1500 horses have assembled in the BaltimoreWashington racing area for the Maryland spring racing the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association will inaugurate at Prince Georges Park Bowie Tuesday April 2 with a revival of the 5000 Inaugural Handicap a dash of three quarters for threeyearolds and over as a salutatory feature Some 900 of these are at Bowie and the tributary halfmile course at Marlboro ten miles away There are a couple of hundred at Benning twelve miles to the south another couple of hundred at Pimlico and smaller colonies at private training places in the neighborhood of the Laurel and Bowie courses It would hardly be correct to say that all are ready but a big majority are and all are rapidly coming to form That the racing at Bowie which will continue eleven days with revivals of the 2500 Bowie Kindergarten a sprint of half a mile for twoyearolds the 2500 Capitol Handicap a dash of seveneighths for threeyearolds and the Prince Georges Spring Handicap a 5000 gallop of one mile and a sixteenth for threeyearolds and over as additional features and the distribution of about 170000 altogether in purses will be keen may be taken for granted grantedPrince Prince Georges Park newest of Marylands great courses is situated midway between Baltimore and Washington on the interurban electric railroad It is reached by a system of the finest hardsurfaced highways to be found along the Atlantic seaboard With a back stretch extension that permits races of seveneighths and under around one turn the track is one of the best mile tracks in the East The splendid new grandstand that arose two years back out of the ashes of the old wooden structure set up in 1014 which seats 12500 and shelters comfortably as many more is conceded to be one of the finest in the country The stabling is up to the highest standards Since the construc ¬ tion of this stand which cost upward of 650000 Bowie has rivaled old Pimlico in popularity popularityThe The impending meeting will be supported by all or parts of the stables of such repre ¬ sentative sportsmen and sportswomen as Harry Payne Whitney Walter J Salmon Richard T Wilson J Edwin Griffith Ed ¬ ward Beale McLean Admiral Gary T Gray son Samuel Ross Capt Philip M Walker Harrison Nesbit Jefferson Livingston Ber ¬ nard B Jones George Wingfield Ral Parr Frank Bonsai Jr John Farrell Jr Breck inridge Long William Garth Ralph Free Continued on twelfth page
