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BOWIE TURF NOTES I 4 and Joseph B. Boyle, general manager of the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association, today received a dozen requests for private boxes for Decoration Day from New York and Philadelphia race enthusiasts. He reports a big demand for boxes and advises Marylanders who desire reserved seats to secure them at once. The men back of this meeting have put up a piece of silver plate which will be awarded the owner winning the Mayor Howard W: Jackson race, Thursdays six furlongs feature. Friday will be Ladies Day here. The fair sex will be admitted upon payment of the fifteen cents government tax. There are twenty-seven horses on the schooling list with the adding of Busy Ike and Flying Nymph. The sum of 1,500 has changed hands a3 a result of eleven claims during the present session. Bryan Harris of Baltimore is taking the veteran .rider, Phillip McCabe of Cleveland, to the Hagerstown meeting, which opens the fourth lap of Marylands spring racing on June 1." McCabe will attempt a comeback after being inactive three years. He ride3 at 103 pounds. Horsemen almost ruined Wednesdays seventh race as fourteen of the eighteen having representatives in the race tried to scratch out. However, four got stuck and one withdrew his scratch. L. H. Miners Modern Times was cut down in Tuesdays race and will be shipped back to Hagerstown to rest up until fall. Dave Wilson, pal of jockey "Sonny" Workman, was an arrival from Saratoga Springs, N. Y. O. Blank will ship six horses from here to Chicago. Included in the shipment will be Rubio, one that Pete Claussen claimed several days ago in New York. Due to death in the family of Frank Hayes of Waterbury, Conn., Syriac and Can-toria were scratched Wednesday by trainer P: E. Fitzgerald. The apprentice allowance was waived on Burning Feet and Home Work Wednesday, and they carried 113 and 116 pounds, respectively. George Conway shipped the Glen Riddle Farms horses from Havre de Grace to Belmont Park. He sent word here that too much credit cannot be given superintendent James Ross for the manner in which he has kept up the Harford County track, even though racing closed there several weeks ago. J. W. Y. Martin, popular sportsman of the Worthington Valley, has shipped Con Amore, Dark Hope, Worthington, Law Suit and Moon Glory from Pimlico to Belmont Park. Trainer Augie Hutchins will later ship the Martin string to Rockingham Park, N. H. Henry Kruse, a colored lad, fell from W. C. Weants Oslo while working the plater Wednesday morning and injured his knee.
