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00,000 MATCH RACE NEW YORK, N. Y., April 5. Prospects of a match race between War Admiral, champion three-year-old of 1937, and Seabiscuit, handicap champion of the same year, loomed today after chairman Herbert Bayard Swope, of the New York State Racing Commission, talked with Charles S. . Howard, owner of the older horse, by long distance telephone to San Francisco. Howard expressed emphatic willingness to pit his horse against Samuel D. Riddles colt in a special match race to be run at a mile and a quarter in the fall at Belmont Park for a purse of 00,000, the owners to agree upon the weights. With this assurance, Swope communicated with Joseph E. Widener, president of Belmont Park. Widener agreed to stage the race provided his fellow directors in the track and Riddle accept the conditions. - ---
