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I j "JOCKEY CLUB BREAKS ITS RULES-WOMAN LICENSED NEW YORK. N. Y., April 3. For the first time in the history of The Jockey Club, the stewards, on the recommendation of the license -committee, issued a trainees license to a woman at their meeting Tuesday. The unique distinction goes to Miss Mary Hirsch, twenty-two-year-old daughter of Max Hirsch, the noted turfman. Miss Hirsch is now officially privileged to train, saddle and race horses in New York state. Last year she was granted licenses by the Illinois and Michigan commissions but her application to The Jockey Club was tabled. About fifty other trainers licenses were granted at the meeting, and twenty jockeys also were licensed. To date, about 150 trainers have received permission to ply their profession on the New York tracks, while about forty jockeys were issued licenses. A few applications for trainer licenses were tabled. As usual, the stewards withheld explanations for their action in these cases. Attending the meeting were William Woodward, Joseph E. Widener, J. E. Cow-din, A. H. Morris and J. A. Morris, deputy for George. H. Bull, and Herbert Bayard Swope and John Sloan, of the New York State Racing Commission. Stewards appointed to represent The Jockey Club at the spring and summer meetings pending are as follows: George H. Bull. Jamaica; William Woodward, Belmont; H W. Maxwell, Aqueduct; A. H. Morris, Empire City, and Walter M. Jeffords, Saratoga Springs. -
