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UNITED HUNTS MEETING TODAY Popular Amateur Sport to Take Place at Roslyn, Long Island Many Attractive Races. NEW YORK, N.. Y., June 12. Down at the delightful Long Island course of the United Hunts Association at Roslyn tomorrow that old amateur sporting association will conduct its one day of sport. This is by long odds the most important of the various amateur meetings that are conducted, and it is a big day for the hunting set. While these amateur meetings have a great sporting appeal, it is racing that is conducted with professional completeness, and the professionals find as much to interest them as do the amateurs who have made such racing possible. For this meeting, a program of six races has been prepared and a feature of importance is an opening dash of about six furlongs on the flat in which ladies, are to ride. Last year this brought an excellent contest and for the renewal tomorrow eight have been named to go to the post. Three of the races through the field are over the brush course. There is a hurdle race, and at the end of the card a mile and a quarter contest on the flat has attracted an excellent fieFd. The Bowman Steeplechase Handicap, named in memory of a former president of the United Hunts Association, is the feature of the afternoon in point of value, though the R. Perm Smith Handicap has a greater appeal to the amateurs for the reason that it is confined to hunters. The course, over which the racing is conducted is on the C. V. Hickok estate, and there is no better hunt course to be found anywhere. When the course was constructed the United Hunts Association was invited to make use of it for its racing, and it is infinitely better than the old course that was originally used at the Belmont Park terminal. In other seasons the racing has been conducted over other private Long Island courses, but not one of them came up to the present racing ground. Post time for the first race has been fixed at 2:45 oclock.
