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1 BOWIE TURF NOTES S $ W. J. Hirsch reached Havre de Grace with the good three-year-old Columbiana and other members of his stable that were campaigned during the winter in Florida. M. C. Shea and W. Shewbridge have been engaged to serve as officials at the Hunt meeting to be staged at Middleburg, Va., on Saturday. The meeting will be sponsored by Daniel C. Sands. In the absence of P. T. Roche, paddock judge at Bowie, who is confined to his home through illness, his position was filled by William Jennings, who serves as timer for the Southern Maryland Agricultural Association. Mortimer M. Mahoney, who serves as mu-tule manager for the Maryland Jockey Club, at Pimlico, announced here that sellers and cashiers will be placed in the infield at the Hilltop course on Preakness day. Present plans call for ten sellers and eight cashiers to tend the new units, all of which will be of denomination. Mahoney also stated that overhead wires strung from the mutuel department across the track to the totalizator board, have been torn down and placed in conduits underground. James Ross, Jr., who serves as patrol judge for the Harford Agricultural and Breeders Association at Havre de Grace, was an interested spectator at Bowie Thursday. The younger Ross reports that shipments are arriving daily at the Susquehanna course, and that practically all details in connection with the meeting opening on Monday have been completed. Bert Mullholland, with a division of the George D. Widener stable coming from Elmendorf Farm in Pennsylvania, is expected to reach the Havre de Grace course, Friday. Preston M. Burch, with the W. M. Jeffords horses, George Conway, with Glen Riddle performers, and Richard Handen with the Foxcatcher Farms racers are at Havre de Grace awaiting the opening of the spring meeting. Word was received from the Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark farm in Glasgow, Del., that a large draft of racers from that establishment in charge of James Healey, is en route to Belmont Park. It was learned that the shipment consists of fourteen racers. Jockeys George Woolf and M. Corona accompanied by "Bud" Raines, all of whom are employed by the Brookmeade Stable, stopped off for a few races at Bowie while en route from Columbia, S. C, to New York. The trio reported that Cavalcade is back in training and coming along nicely. Jockey B. Wimmer departed for Narra-gansett Park to report to M. J. Beachamp, his contract employer. Frank J. Kearns plans to ship the Maryland division of the Calumet Farm Stable to Jamaica on Sunday. The Alvin Untermeyer string will be transferred to Belmont Park at the close of the present meeting at Bowie.
