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RACING AT CHARLES TOWN BALTIMORE, Md., Aug. 5. At a meeting here, attended by Secretary of Agriculture McLaughlin, Senator Smith of West Virginia and Joseph B. Boyle, it was decided to run a two-day race meeting, August 10 and 11, at Charles Town, W. Va. Five flat races, a steeplechase, a mule race and three trotting events will be run, with pari-mutuel wagering. Boyle, general manager at Bowie and Marlboro, will have charge of the pari-mutuel. wagering. The racing this month is a prelude to the meeting in December, when the track will be fully completed, as well as for the session planned next spring at a track to be built twenty-two miles from Pittsburgh, Pa. During the December meeting Mortimer M. Mahoney of this city will be in charge of the pari-mutuels, with Boyle general manager. Thomas Kirby Lynch, treasurer of the Bowie and Marlboro tracks, will fill a similar post at Charles Town.
