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REMARKABLE ENTRY LIST Total of Sixty-Six Nominations for Billy Barton Steeplechase. l o 1 Thirly-Jfinc Different Interests Represented Great Contest "When Race Is ! linn at Iiiulico May 1. BALTIMORE, Md., April 17 What is probably a record list of entries for this class of cross-country racing has been received by the Maryland Jockey Club for the Billy Barton Steeplechase, for qualified huntes, to be run at Pimlico on Thursday, May 1. A total of sixty-six nominations in thirty-nine interests, comprising the cream of the hunting element, speaks well for the healthy condition of amateur sport, which, when all is said and done, is the backbone of the professional sport. The Maryland Jockey Club is to be congratulated on the response of the hunting set all over the country in its efforts to perpetuate the name of one of the grandest and gamest jumpers ever developed on this side of the water, and it is fitting that his home state, Maryland, should be the one to do honor to Howard Bruces Grand National hero, BMlly Barton. The entries come from every important hunting section including Maryland, Virginia, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Massachusetts, Connecticut, in fact wherever horse and hound are fostered, and good riders are developed. NICHOLAS AMONG ENTRIES. Among those entered are Miss Mr E. Alte-mus Nicholas, which was considered, at one time, a most promising stake horse, but was cursed with an evil temper; Benjamin Leslie Behrs Tod Sloan and Crack Willow ; M. Nelson Bonds Oyster Bed, a good jumper and a powerful animal ; Frank A. Bonsai, Jr.s Light Plume and Gleeful, either one of which ought to give this good" gentleman jockey a pleasant ride ; John Bosley, Jr.s Frank Furst, a brilliant fencer, and Dragon de Vertu ; Mrs. Boaley being represented by San Bamola ; George Brooke, III. of Pennsylvania is represented by three, including Advance II., while J. F. Byers has that fine fencer Father Tom, which wintered at Aiken, S. C. In Cloverdale and Morning Sun, the Long Island sportsman F. Ambrose Clark has a couple of excellent junipers, and T. W. Du-rant, who purchased the Manly Memorial winner Lizard, from Joseph E. Widener, and who now has a farm in Maryland, has entered Leading Light II. The Eastland Farm Stable, that electrified Xhe turf world by paying 5,000 for a Whisk Broom II. yearling, now known as New Broom, pins its faith to that sterling jumper Danopio, with Poplar Creek and Markham in reserve. The Elm Court Stable has Eastern Noble, while the Essex Stable, composed of Bayard Tuckerman, Jr., and Clarence Dillon, has the old standby Hock of Cashel, a mighty good liorse when just right. P. II. Faulconer of Virginia has Jim K., and Hufus C. Finch, of the Essex County .New Jersey Hounds, has Ghent. , 3IHS. F. P. GARB AN SILKS. Much interest is shown in the entries of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan of New York, wife of the well known philanthropist, who will make her first appearance at Pimlico with two good jumpers, King Oxford and Friend Frank, while Augustus F. Goodwin of Boston has in Land Boy, a previous Billy Barton winner, and Marbro, two of the outstanding performers in the country. Another New Yorker, well known in the business and sporting world, is A. Ludlow Kramer, represented by Flower Hock and Hockover ; Louis C. Leith, the Virginia horseman, has Caroler and Mons Meg, and Louis K. Liggett has six, of which Solyman and Heal Pepper look the best. The Montpelier Farm of Virginia, has Heaps, the Northwood Stable Melinsar, and Mrs. D. D. ODell of Pennsyh-ania, Glance, Greek Friar and Graeme. D. C. Sands, master of the Piedmont Hunt of Virginia, is represented by Bryn Mawr II. and Galloping Hope, and Mrs. Bancroft Phillips of New York, by Camenooza and Barb Wire. Other prominent sportsmen and sportswomen, who have made nominations, are G. Vincent Grace, James C. Hamilton, Ed. S. Hidden, Mrs. William C. Hunneman, Jr., Francis X. Iglehart, H. H. Kerns, Louis McL. Merryman, David Patterson, Mrs. H. P. Perry, James Piper, Maurice J. Hoche, George Hose, Jr., George A. Saportas, Jr., and C. L. Whiting.
